Participants reported that most strategies, such as trying to think of another song, actually made the original earworm worse.
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The researchers also looked at the typical length of earworm episodes.
Different participants named and shamed different earworm songs and each individual participant tended to report a range of different songs, rather than pointing to repeat offending by the same recalcitrant tune.
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