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- Van Ittersum (2012): Plate Size and Color Suggestibility: The Delboeuf Illusion's Bias on Serving and Eating Behavior
This paper proposes that the effect of dinnerware size on how much people serve themselves is a version of a known visual illusion, the Delboeuf illusion, in which a circle looks larger or smaller…
- van Laer (2014): The Extended Transportation-Imagery Model: A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers
van Laer, T., de Ruyter, K., Visconti, L. M., & Wetzels, M. (2014). 'The Extended Transportation-Imagery Model: A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers' Narrative…
- van Laer (2019): Storytelling in the digital era: A meta-analysis of relevant moderators of the narrative transportation effect
[abstract only; full text not retrieved, 2026-10-19] van Laer, T., Feiereisen, S., & Visconti, L. M. (2019). 'Storytelling in the digital era: A meta-analysis of relevant moderators of the narrative…
- Van Reijmersdal (2023): Disclosure-Driven Recognition of Native Advertising: A Test of Two Competing Mechanisms
Van Reijmersdal and colleagues examine two opposite mechanisms, activation of conceptual persuasion knowledge and perceived transparency of native advertising, to explain positive and negative…
- Vandello (2007): The appeal of the underdog
Vandello, Goldschmied and Richards, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 33(12), 2007. Four studies on when and why observers side with disadvantaged competitors. Study 1, Olympic matches…
- Varotto (2017): Psychological strategies to promote household recycling. A systematic review with meta-analysis of validated field interventions
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL at the University of Padova IRIS record, which prints it entire; full text not read, the deposited publisher PDF being access-restricted] Varotto, A., & Spagnolli, A. (2017)…
- Vasilescu (2016): The Sky Is Not the Limit: Multitasking Across GitHub Projects
[COMPLETE ARTICLE READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the author copy at cs.ucdavis.edu, including the full regression table and the threats-to-validity section] Vasilescu, B., Blincoe, K., Xuan, Q…
- Vazire (2004): e-Perceptions: Personality impressions based on personal websites
Eleven observers viewed 89 personal websites and rated the authors' personalities. Ratings were checked against criteria built from self-reports and informant reports. Observers agreed with one…
- Veeraraghavan (2009): Joining longer queues: Information externalities in queue choice
Veeraraghavan and Debo start from the point that queue length can signal either higher demand or slower service, so customers may read a long line as a sign of quality. They study this information…
- Vendor material (2008): twelve million dollars from one field
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Venkatraman (2015): Predicting advertising success beyond traditional measures: New insights from neurophysiological methods and market response modeling
Venkatraman and colleagues test 30-second television advertisements with six types of measurement, among them self-reports, eye tracking, EEG and fMRI, and relate the measures to market-level sales…
- Verplanken (2006): Interventions to break and create consumer habits
Belief-change interventions unlikely to change habits; downstream-plus interventions at moments such as moving household or changing jobs; upstream interventions disrupt old cues and establish new…
- Verplanken (2016): Empowering interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles: Testing the habit discontinuity hypothesis in a field experiment
Verplanken and Roy report a field experiment on whether an intervention promoting sustainable behaviour works better for people going through a life transition such as moving house. Half the…
- Villar (2013): Where am I? A meta-analysis of experiments on the effects of progress indicators for web surveys
32 randomised experiments; constant indicators did not significantly reduce breakoff overall and increased it where a small incentive was promised; fast-to-slow indicators reduced breakoff…
- Vine (2020): Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being
Vine, Boyd and Pennebaker asked whether the range of emotion words a person actually uses tells you anything about their life. Rather than administering a vocabulary test, they measured the emotion…
- Vlachopoulos (2000): Hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis of the Flow State Scale in exercise
[abstract only; full text not retrieved, 2026-10-20] Vlachopoulos, S. P., Karageorghis, C. I., & Terry, P. C. (2000). 'Hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis of the Flow State Scale in exercise.'…
- Vohs (2007): Spent resources: self-regulatory resource availability affects impulse buying
Three investigations; depleted participants felt stronger urges to buy, were willing to spend more and spent more.
- Vohs (2008): Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: A limited-resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative
Vohs and colleagues tested the idea that making many choices impairs later self-control, on the view that decision making draws on the same resource as self-regulation. In laboratory studies some…
- Vohs (2013): Rituals enhance consumption
Vohs, Wang, Gino and Norton, Psychological Science 24(9), 2013, 1714-1721. Four experiments. Experiment 1: 52 students; a ritual of breaking a wrapped chocolate bar in two, then unwrapping and…
- Vohs (2021): A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect
36 laboratories, N = 3,531; confirmatory d = 0.06, nonsignificant; data four times more likely under the null than the informed prior.