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- Sun (2017): The Effect of Recycling versus Trashing on Consumption: Theory and Experimental Evidence
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL from the publisher-deposited abstract at the Crossref item record; FULL TEXT NOT READ, the green open-access deposit would not load, and NO SAMPLE SIZE, DESIGN OR EFFECT SIZE…
- Sundberg (1955): The acceptability of ‘fake’ versus ‘bona fide’ personality test interpretations
Sundberg compared the acceptance of fake and genuine test interpretations. As reported in the 1985 review, two judges found about five times as many favourable as unfavourable statements in the most…
- Sunstein (2022): Sludge audits
sludge as excessive or unjustified frictions; institutions should conduct regular Sludge Audits; sludge can hurt the most vulnerable.
- Supreme Court of the United States (1995): Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., 514 U.S. 159
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Sutherland (2009): Life lessons from an ad man
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Swann (2018): A Review of Scientific Progress in Flow in Sport and Exercise: Normal Science, Crisis, and a Progressive Shift
[Crossref item record read in full; full text NOT READ, and only the crisis-point framing that repository summaries carry is used] Swann, C., Piggott, D., Schweickle, M., & Vella, S. A. (2018). 'A…
- Sweeny (2015): Is Waiting the Hardest Part? Comparing the Emotional Experiences of Awaiting and Receiving Bad News
PRIMARY, two studies. Study 1 asked participants to reflect on a personal experience awaiting news that turned out badly; Study 2 followed law graduates awaiting bar-exam results who ultimately…
- Sweeny (2026): Just Keep Flowing: A Meta-Analysis on the Relationship Between Flow and Well-Being
[NOT re-read on this pass; numbers carried from the vault's 2026-09-27 pass of the first author's hosted copy, and volume, issue, pages and doi could not be confirmed from a publisher record]…
- Sweis (2018): Sensitivity to "sunk costs" in mice, rats, and humans
Sweis and colleagues built two matched foraging tasks, one for rodents and one for humans, in which a subject waits for a reward and can abandon the wait at any point. Mice, rats and people all…
- Sweller (1985): The use of worked examples as a substitute for problem solving in learning algebra
John Sweller and Graham Cooper report five experiments on how students learn to solve algebra problems. The first compares Year 9, Year 11 and university mathematics students and finds that more…
- Sweller (1988): Cognitive load during problem solving: Effects on learning
John Sweller argues that expertise in problem solving depends mainly on domain-specific knowledge organised as schemas, and that conventional problem solving is a poor way to acquire them because…
- Sweller (2010): Element interactivity and intrinsic, extraneous, and germane cognitive load
John Sweller argues that element interactivity, long the basic mechanism defining intrinsic cognitive load, also underlies extraneous cognitive load. Whether the two kinds of load are distinct…
- Sweller (2019): Cognitive architecture and instructional design: 20 years later
John Sweller, Jeroen van Merrienboer and Fred Paas summarise twenty years of developments in cognitive load theory since the major review of 1998. The theory, introduced in the 1980s, is an…
- Sy (2005): The contagious leader: Impact of the leader's mood on the mood of group members, group affective tone, and group processes
Sy, Cote and Saavedra drew on a mood contagion model and placed leaders in either a positive or a negative mood. Group members with positive-mood leaders reported more positive and less negative…
- Syed (2015): Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Szaszi (2022): No reason to expect large and consistent effects of nudge interventions
Szaszi, Higney, Charlton, Tipton and colleagues reply to the same meta-analysis from a different direction. Their reading is that nudge interventions may work under certain conditions, and that the…
- Szaszi, B., Higney, A., Charlton, A., Gelman, A., Ziano, I.: Szaszi, B., Higney, A., Charlton, A., Gelman, A., Ziano, I., Aczel, B., Goldstein, D. G., Yeager, D
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Szocs (2024): Contextual effects of color on food choices: Red ambient color induces indulgence
Szocs, Abell, Ruzeviciute, Kim and Biswas examine red ambient colour in restaurants and cafeterias. Earlier work had linked red attached to a food product, such as a plate, cup or nutrition label…
- Szpunar (2004): Liking and memory for musical stimuli as a function of exposure
University of Toronto Mississauga; Experiment 2 with 40 undergraduates and orchestral excerpts; focused listening an inverted U, decreasing from 8 to 32 exposures; incidental listening monotonic…
- Szreder (2022): Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
[FULL TEXT READ, the complete published PDF, open access under CC BY-SA 4.0] Szreder, M. (2022). 'Noise and bias, some controversies raised by the book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment.' Przeglad…