Studies (page 100)

Steiner and Florack reviewed empirical studies of how packaging colour affects perceived healthfulness, following PRISMA guidelines and searching one database for English-language studies of adults…

Sebastian Steinker, Kai Hoberg and Ulrich Thonemann study about two and a half years of daily orders at a European online fashion retailer. Sunshine, temperature and rain significantly affected…

Stephens-Davidowitz first author, not Varian. An instrumental-variable study of 70 films advertised in the 2004 to 2014 Super Bowls across 56 media markets used the fact that slots are sold before…

Steptoe, Shankar, Demakakos and Wardle ask whether the effects of social isolation and loneliness on mortality are independent, or whether loneliness is the emotional pathway through which isolation…

Stewart and Goss re-examined whether plate colour affects taste, this time alongside plate shape and using plates with more angular corners than earlier work. Using a two-by-two between-subjects…

[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, at the journal's own article page hosted at dlab.sauder.ubc.ca] Stewart, N., Ungemach, C., Harris, A. J. L., Bartels, D. M., Newell, B. R., Paolacci, G., &…

Mental trip budgets contain an itemised portion and in-store slack; incidence of slack found in a secondary data set and a field study.

Axel Stock and Subramanian Balachander use a game-theoretic model to ask whether scarcity strategies, making a product hard to get so that it becomes a hot product, can be optimal. They find that a…

[FULL TEXT READ at the publisher. Peer-reviewed, Psychonomic Society] Stockli, S., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Borer, S., & Samson, A. C. (2018). 'Facial expression analysis with AFFDEX and FACET: A…

27 studies, 1,466 patients, median follow-up five years; misdiagnosis 29 per cent (1950s), 17 per cent (1960s), 4 per cent (1970s, 1980s, 1990s); decline independent of age, sex and symptom duration…

Storr (2021), The Status Game. Cited in 1 article on this site.

Story and colleagues note that standard theories predict that people should defer a punishment and advance a reward, yet with pain people often prefer to bring it forward, implying that anticipation…

Valeria Stourm, Eric Bradlow and Peter Fader build a model of how customers decide when to redeem loyalty points in a linear programme, one where holding points earns no extra reward. The model…

two experiments; chocolate with the check raised tips; tips varied with the amount of candy and the manner of offering; reciprocity argued to explain the results better than impression management or…

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Avner Strulov-Shlain asks whether retailers use prices ending in 99 because shoppers read prices from the left. Using scanner data on thousands of products across many United States chains, he…

Sugden, Zheng and Zizzo ran the experiment that establishes when an anchor actually moves money. Rather than asking people to estimate an unknown quantity, they used real buying and selling…

Sugimoto tests the construct and predictive validity of three linear-compensatory multi-attribute attitude models. In the first experiment about three quarters of subjects in a Fishbein-model task…

Sujan and Bettman report four studies showing that how different consumers judge a brand to be from others in its product category shapes where the brand sits within the category. A brand judged…

Summers, Smith and Reczek study behavioural targeting, which delivers digital ads to individuals based on their online behaviour. They show that a behaviourally targeted ad can act as a social label…