Studies (page 115)
- Wood (2002): Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action
Wood, W., Quinn, J. M., & Kashy, D. A. (2002). 'Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action.' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(6), 1281-1297…
- Wood (2003): Forewarned and forearmed? Two meta-analytic syntheses of forewarnings of influence appeals
Wendy Wood and Jeffrey Quinn report two meta-analyses of what happens to attitudes when people are warned that someone is about to try to influence them. A warning generally appeared to threaten…
- Wood (2005): Changing Circumstances, Disrupting Habits
[full text read at source, in sections by targeted search rather than cover to cover, so figure captions and some tables were not inspected] Wood, W., Tam, L., & Guerrero Witt, M. (2005). 'Changing…
- Wood (2005): Changing circumstances, disrupting habits
Wood (2005), Changing circumstances, disrupting habits. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Wood (2009): Positive self-statements: Power for some, peril for others
Joanne Wood, Elaine Perunovic and John Lee ran a survey and two experiments on positive self-statements. The survey found people often use them and believe them to be effective. In the experiments…
- Wood (2009): The habitual consumer
Habits are responses cued by contexts that covaried with past performance, quick to activate and slow to modify; reliance increased by time pressure, distraction and self-control depletion.
- Wood (2020): N-of-1 Trial of a Statin, Placebo, or No Treatment to Assess Side Effects
The first report of the SAMSON trial at Imperial College London, published as correspondence. People who had stopped statins because of side effects rotated through periods taking a statin, an…
- Woollett (2011): Acquiring the Knowledge of London's layout drives structural brain changes
Katherine Woollett and Eleanor Maguire followed trainee London taxi drivers through the training for the licence, known as the Knowledge, which typically takes three to four years, and scanned them…
- Woollett (2011): the Knowledge
Woollett (2011), the Knowledge. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Woolley (2010): Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups
Woolley and colleagues asked whether groups show a shared underlying performance factor, similar to general intelligence in individuals. In two studies of people working in groups of two to five…
- Wootton (2018): Evaluation of the causal effects between subjective wellbeing and cardiometabolic health: mendelian randomisation study
[STRUCTURED ABSTRACT AND RESULTS PARAGRAPH READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the BMJ article page; THE FULL BODY WAS NOT READ] Wootton, R. E., Lawn, R. B., Millard, L. A. C., Davies, N. M., Taylor, A. E…
- Worchel (1975): Effects of supply and demand on ratings of object value.
Worchel, Lee and Adewole asked people to rate the value and attractiveness of cookies that were in either abundant or scarce supply, and varied how the scarcity came about. In the scarce conditions…
- World Economic Forum and McKinsey Health Institute (2024): Closing the Women
women spend 25 per cent more of their lives in poor health than men; closing the gap could add seven healthy days per woman per year, more than 500 days over a lifetime, and up to $1 trillion a year…
- World Health Organization (2026): Polycystic ovary syndrome
PCOS affects an estimated 10 to 13 per cent of reproductive-aged women; up to 70 per cent of affected women worldwide do not know they have it.
- Wortman (1976): Self-disclosure: an attributional perspective
a confederate made an intimate disclosure early or near the end of a 10-minute conversation; the early discloser was assigned negative traits and liked significantly less.
- Wu (2021): A meta-analysis of the effect of values affirmation on academic achievement
Zezhen Wu, Thees Spreckelsen and Geoffrey Cohen reviewed 58 studies of values affirmation and academic achievement in real classrooms. The benefit was small for students facing a social identity…
- Wyatt (2021): Postprandial glycaemic dips predict appetite and energy intake in healthy individuals
Wyatt and colleagues used continuous glucose monitors on more than a thousand people across British and American cohorts, who ate thousands of standardised meals followed by tens of thousands of…
- Wyatt, P., Berry, S. E., Finlayson, G., O'Driscoll, R., Hadj: Wyatt, P., Berry, S. E., Finlayson, G., O'Driscoll, R., Hadjigeorgiou, G., Drew, D. A., Al Khatib, H., Nguyen, L
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- Xiao (2021): Revisiting status quo bias: Replication of Samuelson and Zeckhauser
Qinyu Xiao, Choi Shan Lam, Muhrajan Piara and Gilad Feldman report two preregistered experiments with US participants recruited online, replicating four decision scenarios from Samuelson and…
- Xie (2018): Null effects of perceptual disfluency on learning outcomes in a text-based educational context: A meta-analysis
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.