7 facts about the "stickiness songs" ("ear worms")

Surely you know the state when the annoying song is "stuck" in your head, is woven into your thoughts, and turns again and again, and get rid of it is almost impossible. The phenomenon of "contagious song" is very common and quite surprising that so far almost no attempts to study this phenomenon.

Only a few years ago, the music psychologist Vicky Williamson took up the study of this phenomenon, which is called "the syndrome of jam tracks", "contagious music" or the most common term "ear worm" (eng. «Earworm»). Here are her conclusions:

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