Studies (page 10)
- Hagger (2016): A multilab preregistered replication of the ego-depletion effect
23 laboratories, N = 2,141, d = 0.04, 95 per cent CI from -0.07 to 0.15.
- Hammond (2011): Health warning messages on tobacco products: a review
David Hammond reviewed 94 studies of health warnings on tobacco products. Larger warnings with pictures were significantly more effective than smaller, text-only messages, and pictorial warnings…
- Hannover (2002): ‘The clothing makes the self’ via knowledge activation
Formal or casual dress; trait self-descriptions and response times.
- Harkin (2016): Does monitoring goal progress promote goal attainment? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence
A meta-analysis led by B. Harkin of 138 studies with 19,951 participants. Interventions that increased monitoring of goal progress improved goal attainment. Effects were larger when progress was…
- Harrar (2013): The taste of cutlery: how the taste of food is affected by the weight, size, shape, and colour of the cutlery used to eat it
Harrar and Spence report three experiments on whether the cutlery you eat with changes the taste of the food, varying weight, size, colour and shape independently. Yoghurt was perceived as denser…
- Hartgerink (2015): The Ordinal Effects of Ostracism: A Meta-Analysis of 120 Cyberball Studies
Hartgerink and colleagues pooled a hundred and twenty studies using Cyberball, the online ball-tossing game in which a participant is left out by the other players, covering nearly twelve thousand…
- Hazan (1987): Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process
Hazan and Shaver's paper is the one that carried attachment theory into adult life. Its proposal is that romantic love is an attachment process of the same kind studied in infants, and that the…
- Herman (2003): Effects of the Presence of Others on Food Intake: A Normative Interpretation.
Peter Herman, Deborah Roth and Janet Polivy reviewed research on how the presence of other people affects how much we eat, which had produced three apparently conflicting findings. Social…
- Herr (1983): On the consequences of priming: Assimilation and contrast effects
Herr and colleagues examine when priming a concept makes a subsequent judgment move towards it and when it pushes the judgment the other way. Both happen. Prime a mild example of hostility and an…
- Hesselmann (2020): No conclusive evidence that difficult general knowledge questions cause a Google Stroop effect. A replication study
Hesselmann set out to test one of the two findings from the well-known study on internet use and memory: the claim that being asked a hard factual question automatically brings the idea of the…
- Higgs (2002): Memory for recent eating and its influence on subsequent food intake
Higgs's paper examines memory for recent eating and its influence on how much a person eats next. No abstract is published for it in OpenAlex, Crossref or Semantic Scholar, and this publication has…
- Hirshleifer (2003): Good day sunshine: stock returns and the weather
Morning sunshine in the city of each country's leading exchange and daily index returns across 26 countries, 1982 to 1997; sunshine strongly significantly correlated with returns; rain and snow…
- Ho (2008): Estimating causal effects of ballot order from a randomized natural experiment: the California alphabet lottery, 1978-2002
In general elections only minor party candidates affected; in primaries major party candidates gain one to three percentage points and minor party candidates may double their vote shares…
- Hofer (1688): Dissertatio medica de nostalgia, oder Heimwehe
This is the medical dissertation that named nostalgia. Hofer, a Swiss medical student, coined the word in 1688 from the Greek for homecoming and pain, to describe what he took to be a disease he…
- Hogg (2007): Uncertainty, entitativity, and group identification
Hogg and colleagues test uncertainty-identity theory, whose claim is that identifying with a group is a way of resolving uncertainty about oneself. The mechanism is that a group supplies a…
- Hollands (2015): Portion, package or tableware size for changing selection and consumption of food, alcohol and tobacco
Hollands and colleagues produced the Cochrane review of whether the size and shape of portions, packages and tableware change how much people consume, covering food, alcohol and tobacco, in adults…
- Holt-Lunstad (2010): Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review
Holt-Lunstad, Smith and Layton conducted the meta-analytic review that gave this subject its authority, asking how far social relationships influence mortality risk, which aspects are most…
- Holt-Lunstad (2015): Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality
Holt-Lunstad, Smith, Baker, Harris and Stephenson return to the question their earlier meta-analysis raised, asking about the overall and relative magnitude of social isolation and loneliness as…
- Horton (2025): Evaluating the evidence for enclothed cognition: z-curve and meta-analyses
105 effects, 40 studies, 24 articles, N = 3,789; concerns about replicability of early studies; evidential value for effects published after 2015.
- Howard (2021): Side Effect Patterns in a Crossover Trial of Statin, Placebo, and No Treatment
The full SAMSON report, led by James Howard. Sixty participants who had stopped statins were randomised and 49 completed the year. Average daily symptom scores were 8.0 with no tablet, 15.4 on…