Studies (page 111)
- Walsh (2010): Do logo redesigns help or hurt your brand? The role of brand commitment
Walsh, Winterich and Mittal report a field experiment with 632 respondents on logo redesign. Strongly committed consumers evaluated a shift toward a rounder version of an angular logo negatively…
- Walton (2012): Mere belonging: The power of social connections.
Walton, Cohen, Cwir and Spencer report four experiments testing whether minimal social connections, such as sharing a birthday with another student or belonging to an arbitrary group tied to a…
- Wan (2014): Cross-cultural differences in crossmodal correspondences between basic tastes and visual features
Wan, Woods, van den Bosch, McKenzie, Velasco and Spence ran a cross-cultural study of how people link visual features to the five basic tastes. The features were 11 colours, 15 shapes and 2…
- Wang (2015): Emotional reaction facilitates the brain and behavioural impact of graphic cigarette warning labels in smokers
A brain-imaging study of 24 smokers viewing graphic cigarette warnings. Warnings that produced stronger emotional reactions were better remembered and were associated with a reduced urge to smoke…
- Wang (2021): A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions on Goal Attainment
Guoxia Wang, Yi Wang and Xiaosong Gai pooled empirical studies of mental contrasting with implementation intentions, in which a person pictures a wanted future, then what stands in its way, and then…
- Wang (2026): Wearable Fitness Product Design Strategies Based on Hook Model
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wansink (2005): Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake <sup>**</sup>
Wansink, Painter and North used self-refilling soup bowls to test whether visual cues about portion size change how much people eat without changing what they think they have eaten. Fifty-four…
- Wansink (2005): How descriptive food names bias sensory perceptions in restaurants
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wansink (2017): How descriptive food names bias sensory perceptions in restaurants
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Ward (2013): Supernormal: How the Internet Is Changing Our Memories and Our Minds
The record for Adrian Ward's book gives only its opening lines, which describe people as creatures of flesh and blood living in a world shaped by the internet, where vast amounts of information are…
- Ward (2017): Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One
Ward (2017), Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Ward (2022): Americans are choosing to be alone. Here
[READ IN FULL AT SOURCE. NOT A STUDY: this is a newspaper opinion column with no method, no table, no code and no peer review, and it must never be cited as a paper] Ward, B. (2022). 'Americans are…
- Wardman (2011): Twenty Years of Rail Crowding Valuation Studies: Evidence and Lessons from British Experience
Wardman and Whelan review British evidence from seventeen studies over twenty years on how passengers value rail crowding. They summarise the studies, place useful empirical evidence in the public…
- Warneken (2008): Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds
Warneken and Tomasello report that 20-month-old infants who received a material reward during a treatment phase helped less in a later test phase than infants who received social praise or no…
- Wason (1960): On the failure to eliminate hypotheses in a conceptual task
Wason asked whether intelligent young adults test a hypothesis only by collecting instances that agree with it or also by seeking instances that would rule it out. The rule-discovery task was built…
- Watkins (2011): Rumination-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy for residual depression: phase II randomised controlled trial
Watkins and colleagues tested a therapy designed to target rumination specifically, rather than depression in general, in patients whose depression had persisted despite medication. Forty-two people…
- Watson (2005): Influence of psychological response on breast cancer survival: 10-year follow-up of a population-based cohort
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, an institutional repository record which prints it entire; THE FULL TEXT WAS NOT READ, and the 1999 Lancet paper from the same cohort was NOT READ either] Watson…
- Watson (2022): The power of suggestion: subjective satiety is affected by nutrient and health-focused food labelling with no effect on physiological gut hormone release
A randomised crossover trial led by Sinead Watson. Fifty people attended the first visit and ate the same 380 kcal granola and yoghurt breakfast on two mornings a week apart, labelled once as a 500…
- Waytz (2012): The group-member mind trade-off: Attributing mind to groups versus group members
Waytz and Young examine whether people see groups as having minds of their own, able to think, intend and plan, and how that affects both the group and its members. They report a trade-off: the more…
- Webb (2006): Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence
Webb and Sheeran meta-analysed 47 experimental tests of whether changing behavioural intentions changes behaviour. Interventions produced a change in intention of d = 0.66, a medium-to-large effect…