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- Wilson Quarterly. 'News You Can Lose' (summary of Patterson: News You Can Lose
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Winegar (2019): How Much Is Data Privacy Worth? A Preliminary Investigation
Winegar first author, with Sunstein. A survey of 2,416 Americans, with primes varying the kind of data at stake, found the median consumer willing to pay just 5 dollars a month to maintain data…
- Winkielman (2001): Mind at ease puts a smile on the face: Psychophysiological evidence that processing facilitation elicits positive affect
Winkielman and Cacioppo report in two studies that neutral pictures made easier to process produced more activity in the cheek muscle used in smiling, and suggest that this link between ease and…
- Winkielman (2006): Prototypes Are Attractive Because They Are Easy on the Mind
Winkielman, Halberstadt, Fazendeiro and Catty tested whether the preference for prototypical stimuli, called beauty in averageness, reflects fluent processing rather than a signal of mate value. In…
- Winn (2014): What is your Ikigai?
[NOT A STUDY, a blog post. READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, including the comment thread and the two notes Winn has added since] Winn, M. (2014). 'What is your Ikigai?' theviewinside.me, published 14 May…
- Winn (2025): The Story Behind the Ikigai Venn Diagram: A Personal Journey
[NOT A STUDY, a blog post. READ IN FULL AT SOURCE] Winn, M. (2025). 'The Story Behind the Ikigai Venn Diagram: A Personal Journey.' theviewinside.me, published 15 February 2025, modified 28…
- Winter (2021): The effects of trait-based personalization in social media advertising
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wirtz (2004): Consumer responses to compensation, speed of recovery and apology after a service failure
Wirtz and Mattila ran an experiment on how three dimensions of fairness, distributive, procedural and interactional, shape consumers' attributions, post-recovery satisfaction and behavioural…
- Witzel (2017): Regan, J. K., & Hansmann-Roth, S.
Witzel, O'Regan and Hansmann-Roth ask whether individual differences in perceiving the dress come from a general perceptual strategy, the way an observer attributes features in a two-dimensional…
- Witzel (2018): Color Perception: Objects, Constancy, and Categories
Witzel and Gegenfurtner review the state of the art on object colours, colour constancy and colour categories. Their framing argument is worth carrying into any discussion of colour perception…
- Wohl (2010): I forgive myself, now I can study: How self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination
This study's title states its finding: students who forgave themselves for having put off studying for an examination put it off less before the next one. The reasoning behind it is the useful part…
- Wojdynski (2016): Going Native: Effects of Disclosure Position and Language on the Recognition and Evaluation of Online Native Advertising
Wojdynski and Evans ran two experiments on how the language and position of native advertising disclosures affect recognition of the content as advertising, the effect of recognition on brand and…
- Wojdynski (2016): The Deceptiveness of Sponsored News Articles: How Readers Recognize and Perceive Native Advertising
a between-subjects experiment, N = 343, testing four disclosure characteristics, namely proximity, visual prominence, wording clarity and logo presence. Reported results: logo presence and…
- Wolfe (2007): Adaptive redundancy, denominator neglect, and the base-rate fallacy
Wolfe's open peer commentary sets out the prediction that nested or overlapping class-inclusion relations create processing interference, leading people to act as if they ignore marginal…
- Wonders (2025): Measuring flow: Refining research protocols that integrate physiological and psychological approaches
[abstract only; the open-access PDF returned an empty body and the full text is not read] Wonders, M., Hodgson, D., & Whitton, N. (2025). 'Measuring flow: Refining research protocols that integrate…
- Wong (2015): Preferences for pink and blue: The development of color preferences as a distinct gender-typed behavior in toddlers
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wong (2021): External validation of a widely implemented proprietary sepsis prediction model in hospitalized patients
27,697 patients, 38,455 hospitalisations; sepsis in 2,552; AUC 0.63; 1,709 sepsis cases (67 per cent) not identified; alerts for 6,971 of 38,455 (18 per cent); 183 identified who did not receive…
- Wong, A., Otles, E., Donnelly, J. P., Krumm, A., McCullough: Wong, A., Otles, E., Donnelly, J. P., Krumm, A., McCullough, J., DeTroyer-Cooley, O., Pestrue, J., Phillips, M., Konye, J., Penoza, C., Ghous, M., & Singh, K
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wood (1995): The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: how frequent are attention shifts to one’s name in an irrelevant auditory channel?
Wood and Cowan revisited Moray's own-name result in a shadowing task; the 2001 paper co-written by Cowan reports that 34.6 per cent of their participants noticed their name in the ignored channel…
- Wood (2001): Remote purchase environments: the influence of return policy leniency on two-stage decision processes
Remote purchase framed as order then keep-or-return decisions; the endowment effect suggests benefits of return policy leniency to the retailer; three experiments support the idea that product…