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Personalisation reactance to highly personalised messages when the fit between offer and personal characteristics is not explicitly justified; effect primarily among consumers who perceive the…

[NOT READ. PREPRINT, NOT PEER REVIEWED. Located as a reference in Schimmelpfennig and colleagues 2024 and in Petrutiu and colleagues 2026, both of which cite it for the claim that higher formal…

Whitelock and colleagues attempted to replicate a finding that had become standard advice, that paying close attention to a meal while eating it reduces how much you eat later. Two experiments, with…

This paper re-examines the brooding and reflection distinction rather than assuming it. Its design is the useful part: the factor structure of the rumination measure was tested separately in people…

Robert Wicklund and Peter Gollwitzer's book setting out symbolic self-completion theory: people pursue identities by acquiring symbols of them, and social recognition of the identity can serve as…

Wilding and colleagues overview research on the question-behaviour effect, review three theoretical accounts (behavioural simulation and processing fluency, attitude accessibility, cognitive…

Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt and Routledge report seven studies on nostalgia: nostalgic memories usually centre on the self with close others or major life events and are more positive than negative…

These are remarks given by an attorney adviser of the Federal Communications Commission to its open meeting on 30 January 2018, setting out the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau's early…

[THE ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE via the Semantic Scholar record, which prints it entire. THE FULL TEXT WAS NOT READ] Wilkes, J., Garip, G., Kotera, Y., & Fido, D. (2022). 'Can Ikigai Predict…

Wilkins, Journal of Travel Research 50(3), 2011, 239-247. A study of what tourists buy as souvenirs and why, including the effect of gender. It finds that souvenirs serve mainly as evidence of the…

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Williams and Bargh reported two experiments connecting physical temperature to social judgment. In the first, participants who had briefly held a cup of hot coffee rather than iced coffee rated a…

Willis and colleagues reviewed the evidence on whether fitting a breath-testing ignition interlock to the vehicles of drivers sanctioned for drink driving reduces reoffending. The device stops the…

Willis and Todorov ran five experiments in which participants judged unfamiliar faces after different viewing times, each experiment focused on one trait. Their abstract reports that judgements made…

Timothy Wilson and Jonathan Schooler report two studies. Students who analysed why they felt as they did about brands of strawberry jam agreed less with experts' ratings than students who did not…

People rated posters and chose one to take home. Those who first analysed their reasons chose a different type of poster from those who did not, and when contacted a few weeks later were less…

Wilson, Wheatley, Meyers, Gilbert and Axsom propose that the durability bias, the tendency to overpredict how long feelings about future events will last, may arise partly from focalism, people…

Timothy Wilson and Daniel Gilbert review research on affective forecasting, the prediction of how future events will make people feel. They report that people tend to overstate how intense and how…

Timothy Wilson and colleagues report eleven studies in which participants spent six to fifteen minutes alone with nothing to do but think. On average they did not enjoy it, rated everyday external…

The original team's reply to Fox and colleagues. It accepts that some thinking is enjoyable and that many participants were curious about the shock, but argues that the studies examined directed…