Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19621. Modern versions of the rhyme include: The 'pig' mentioned in the song is almost certainly not a live animal but rather a kind of pastry, often made with an apple filling, smaller than a pie. Another version of the rhyme is: This rhyme is often conflated with a separate and longer rhyme: Both rhymes were first printed separately in a "Tom the Piper's Son", a chapbook produced around 1795 in London, England. The
Rhyme-as-reason effect to aesthetic qualities; or the fluency heuristic, according to which things could be preferred due their ease of cognitive processing. For an example of the persuasive quality of the rhyme-as-reason effect, see ""If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"" the signature phrase used by Johnnie Cochran to gain acquittal for O.J. Simpson in Simpson's murder trial. Rhyme-as-reason effect The rhyme-as-reason effect (or "Eaton-Rosen" phenomenon) is a cognitive bias whereupon a saying or aphorism is judged as more accurate or truthful when it is rewritten to rhyme. In experiments, subjects judged variations of sayings which did and did not rhyme, and