{"id":453,"date":"2023-11-04T18:29:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T17:29:25","slug":"does-the-type-of-music-influence-how-much-we-spend-at-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/04\/does-the-type-of-music-influence-how-much-we-spend-at-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Type of Music\u00a0Influence How Much We Spend at Restaurants?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music can be soothing and make us feel happy. \u00a0But does music influence how much we spend at restaurants? \u00a0This is one of the important questions concerning the possible effects of music.\u00a0North, Shilcock, and Hargreaves (2003) investigated the influence of the type\u00a0music on spending behavior at a restaurant. \u00a0The participants were customers\u00a0at a restaurant, and they did not know that they were in an experiment. \u00a0Each\u00a0participant at the restaurant listened to either classical music, pop music, or no\u00a0music. \u00a0They found that the mean total amount of money spent at the\u00a0restaurant was greater for people who listened to classical music than for\u00a0people who listened to pop music or no music. \u00a0The difference between the\u00a0pop music group and the no music group was not statistically significant with\u00a0respect to the mean total amount of money spent at the restaurant.(1)\u00a0\u00a0One of the explanations they provided for the findings involved the idea that\u00a0classical music fosters an upmarket (upscale) atmosphere.<br><br><strong>Notes<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>1. \u00a0The analyses comparing the groups controlled for the amount of time spent\u00a0in the restaurant. \u00a0See their article for other findings.<br><br><strong>References<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>North, A. C., Shilcock, A., &amp; Hargreaves, D.J. (2003). \u00a0The effect of<br>musical style on restaurant customers&#8217; spending. \u00a0<em>Environment and \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em><br><\/em><em>Behavior,\u00a0<\/em>35, 712-718.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell Music can be soothing and make us feel happy. \u00a0But does music influence how much we spend at restaurants? \u00a0This is one of the important questions concerning the possible effects of music.\u00a0North, Shilcock, and Hargreaves (2003) investigated the influence of the type\u00a0music on spending behavior at a restaurant. \u00a0The participants were customers\u00a0at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/04\/does-the-type-of-music-influence-how-much-we-spend-at-restaurants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does the Type of Music\u00a0Influence How Much We Spend at Restaurants?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}