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Article The Effect of Listening Enjoyable Music Before Study on Learning(2020) Eser, Cansu; Akbaba, Sevcan; Ergül, Mehmet; Özçelik, Erol; 115500; PsikolojiResearch studies have suggested that increasing dopamine in a natural way by listening to a short piece of enjoyable music has the potential to improve human performance. However, there is not enough empirical evidence on whether listening to music before studying instructional material enhances learning. Considering this need, the goal of this study is to investigate the effect of listening to enjoyable music before study on learning outcomes. A total of 80 students participated in this experimental study having a between-subjects design. Half of the participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group in which they listened to enjoyable music, whereas the other half were assigned to the control group in which they listened to no music. Afterwards, all the participants studied the instructional materials. The results demonstrate that learning gains were higher in the experimental group than in the control group. Particularly, the results of the current study suggest that when people listen to enjoyable music before they study the instructional materials, they learn better.