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- Webb (2007): How do implementation intentions promote goal attainment? A test of component processes
Webb and Sheeran tested two component processes of implementation intentions, the mental accessibility of the specified cue and the strength of the cue-response link. In a verbal task, planners were…
- Webb (2012): Dealing with feeling: A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of strategies derived from the process model of emotion regulation
Webb, Miles and Sheeran combined 306 experimental comparisons of emotion regulation strategies, coded under the process model of emotion regulation. Cognitive change, the family that includes…
- Webster (2012): Can uniform color color aggression? Quasi-experimental evidence from professional ice hockey
Webster, Urland and Correll analysed 25 seasons of professional ice hockey penalty minutes, using cases where teams changed their jersey colours as quasi-experiments. Teams were penalised more when…
- Webster (2022): An event-related potential investigation of distanced self-talk: Replication and comparison to detached reappraisal
67 participants; direct replication of reduced LPP without increased SPN; detached reappraisal effect failed to replicate, so no direct comparison was made.
- Wechsler (2011): Active albuterol or placebo, sham acupuncture, or no intervention in asthma
In a double-blind crossover pilot, 46 patients with asthma received an active bronchodilator, a placebo inhaler, sham acupuncture or no intervention in random order, with lung function measured…
- Wegner (1994): Ironic processes of mental control
Wegner's theory explains why trying not to think about something makes it more present. Any attempt to control the mind, he argues, sets two processes running. One searches for material consistent…
- Weibel (2010): Pay for Performance in the Public Sector: Benefits and (Hidden) Costs
[NOT READ in any part beyond title and bibliographic record; its single reported figure reaches the vault at second hand] Weibel, A., Rost, K., & Osterloh, M. (2010). 'Pay for Performance in the…
- Weingarten (1983): Conditioned Cues Elicit Feeding in Sated Rats: A Role for Learning in Meal Initiation
Weingarten trained rats to associate an arbitrary external signal, unrelated to food in itself, with being fed. Once the association was learned, presenting the signal caused the animals to eat even…
- Weingarten (1983): Conditioned cues elicit feeding in sated rats: a role for learning in meal initiation
Weingarten (1983), Conditioned cues elicit feeding in sated rats: a role for learning in meal initiation. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Weingarten (2018): Does ease mediate the ease-of-retrieval effect? A meta-analysis
Weingarten and Hutchinson pooled a large body of experiments on the ease-of-retrieval effect, in which the felt difficulty of recalling examples shapes later judgements. The standard few-versus-many…
- Weingarten (2021): Re-examining the experiential advantage in consumption: a meta-analysis and review
META-ANALYSIS. 360 effect sizes from 141 studies. The experiential advantage holds at d = 0.383, 95 per cent CI [0.336, 0.430], but about a third of the effect may reflect publication bias. The…
- Weingarten (2025): The evolving field of consumer research through the lens of its top journals
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL at the SpringerLink article page; full text paywalled and not read. The Crossref API returned an empty body on this pass, so author order follows the publisher's own citation…
- Weinshall-Margel (2011): Overlooked factors in the analysis of parole decisions
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Weinstein (1980): Unrealistic optimism about future life events
Weinstein asked 258 college students in a first study to compare their own chances of 42 life events with the chances of their classmates. On average the students rated their chances above average…
- Weiss (2025): School smartphone policies and adolescent wellbeing
[READ IN FULL at source. NOT A STUDY: this is the journal's own linked commentary on the SMART Schools paper] Weiss, L., & Bonell, C. (2025). 'School smartphone policies and adolescent wellbeing.'…
- Weissgerber (2021): Null and void? Errors in meta-analysis on perceptual disfluency and recommendations to improve meta-analytical reproducibility
Weissgerber, Brunmair and Rummer examine an earlier meta-analysis on null effects of perceptual disfluency on learning outcomes in a text-based educational context. They identify errors and…
- Wells (2014): Behavioural psychology, marketing and consumer behaviour: a literature review and future research agenda
Wells reviews how behaviourism, including classical and operant conditioning and matching and foraging theories, has been applied in consumer behaviour and marketing research over fifty years. The…
- Wen (2021): The interaction effects of online reviews, brand, and price on consumer hotel booking decision making
Wen, Lin, Liu, Xiao and Li ran two experiments on hotel booking in which price (high or low), review valence (positive or negative) and brand familiarity (familiar or unknown) were varied together…
- Westergaard (2019): Population-wide analysis of differences in disease progression patterns in men and women
Danish National Patient Registry, all public and private hospital admissions 1994 to 2015, 6,909,676 patients; 986 diagnoses with a sex difference in age at first hospital diagnosis, women older in…
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No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.