Concepts (page 59)
- Rereading Tendency
Rereading tendency is a person's disposition to return to books they already know. Lauren Ministero and colleagues built a short scale to measure it in 2022, in a survey of 671 US adults, and found…
- Research Misconduct
Research misconduct is the fabrication or falsification of data, or the serious manipulation of analysis and reporting, established by an institution rather than suspected by a reader. It is a far…
- Residual Switch Cost
Residual switch cost is the part of the cost of changing task that survives preparation. Give people time to get ready and the slowdown on the first trial of the new task shrinks, but in many…
- Resonance
Resonance is the second of the two amendments George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Michael Morgan and Nancy Signorielli added to cultivation theory in 1980. The claim is that the cultivation effect is…
- Resource Exchange
Resource exchange treats a service failure as the loss of a resource, money, time, goods, status or attention, and the recovery as a return of resources. Its practical claim is simple and well…
- Response Bias
A shift in how readily somebody says yes, as distinct from a change in how well they can tell two things apart. Becoming more sceptical of everything and becoming better at sorting true from false…
- Response Styles Theory
Response styles theory says that what decides how long a low mood lasts is not the mood itself but what you do once it arrives. Sit with it and turn it over, and it lasts longer. Do something…
- Response-Time Expectation
Response-time expectation is the belief that messages must be answered quickly and that others will judge you if you do not. The closest validated construct is workplace telepressure, the urge to…
- Resting-State Functional Connectivity
Resting-state functional connectivity is the degree to which activity in separate brain regions rises and falls together when no task is set. It turns a map of regions that dropped during a task…
- Restrained Eating
Restrained eating is chronic dieting, measured as a stable trait in eating research. Restrained eaters hold back from food most of the time. In laboratory studies they tend to eat more after their…
- Retail Forecasting
Retail forecasting is the business of predicting how shopping will change. Checked against official statistics, the forecasts of the last decade were mostly right about direction and wrong about…
- Retrospective Endorsement
Retrospective endorsement is a practice becoming advice only after its practitioner becomes eminent, and never before. The habit is unchanged throughout. What changes is the outcome attached to the…