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Hold, Please

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Papers

  • US Patent US3246082A: Telephone hold program system – http://bit.ly/2Q3nhzx
  • Can Music Move People? The Effects of Musical Complexity and Silence on Waiting Time – Adrian C North, David J Hargreaves – http://bit.ly/2OMCxk7
  • The Impact of Music on Consumers’ Reactions to Waiting for Services – Hui et al – http://bit.ly/2OImCTQ
  • Music and on-hold waiting time – North, et al – http://bit.ly/2OOd3D5
  • The Effects of On-Hold Telephone Music on the Number of Premature Disconnections to a Statewide Protective Services Abuse Hot Line – Liesl-Vivoni Ramos – http://bit.ly/2OOYuij
  • The effects of music, wait-length evaluation, and mood on a low-cost wait experience – Cameron, et al – http://bit.ly/2OO7Niu
  • Integrating time from experience in the lateral entorhinal cortex – Tsao, et al – https://go.nature.com/2OMWx6e
  • Hippocampal “Time Cells” Bridge the Gap in Memory for Discontiguous Events – MacDonald, et al – http://bit.ly/2OO94Gi

 

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Articles

 

— THANKS! — 

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— CREDITS —

Reasonably Sound’s theme is by Will Stratton. Reasonably Sound’s visual design is by Tida Tep.

This episode’s hold music was provided by:

The Muzak example is “Casa Bossa Nova” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ http://bit.ly/2OO1Ulo

Stephen Bruckert, host of In Which We Reveal…, was your Alex Jones Impersonator

This episode’s cover image is “Telephone Line” by gawen947 on flickr: http://bit.ly/2OO6BvR