In line with our predictions, we found a significant effect of make-up on a multiple-choice test performance, with scores being significantly higher compared to those obtained after listening to positive music,' the researchers wrote in an academic paper published in Cogent Psychology.
The study in journal Cogent Psychology involved 200 female undergraduates, all studying the same subject with similar self-esteem, make-up habits and IQs.
By making a cogent and penetrating analysis of the misshapen politics, economy and society of the modern city, Mao Dun drew a grandiose scene of the intricate class contradiction of the early 1930's.
