Studies (page 117)

Yorkston and Menon study how the phonemes in brand names shape consumer judgments, and report that consumers infer product attributes from the sounds in a brand name. The full text was not read, so…

Youyou, Kosinski and Stillwell compare the accuracy of human and computer-based personality judgments using a sample of over eighty-six thousand volunteers who completed a long personality…

Zaccaro and colleagues systematically reviewed slow breathing techniques, defined as fewer than ten breaths per minute, and their psychophysiological effects in healthy subjects, following PRISMA…

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Zahavi proposed in 1975 the handicap hypothesis, that a costly display can be an honest signal in mate selection because of its cost. No finding beyond this attribution is stated in the article.

Octavia Zahrt and Alia Crum analysed 61,141 American adults from the 1990 National Health Interview Survey and two rounds of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, linked to death…

Zajonc reported that repeated exposure alone made attitudes towards nonsense words and symbols more positive. Reading depth: abstract only; no figures used.

Zajonc argues against theories in which affect follows cognition. Findings on preferences, attitudes, impression formation and decision making suggest that affective judgements can be largely…

the best positive result in the file. Two experiments. In Study 1, participants' extraversion was first assessed from their own text data using a personality profiling algorithm, and they were then…

Zatorre and Salimpoor review how the brain gets from perceiving a pattern of sound to a pleasurable response. They identify auditory cortical circuits responsible for encoding and storing tonal…

Zauberman, Ratner and Kim, Journal of Consumer Research 35(5), 2009, 715-728. Five studies on strategic memory protection. In the first two, people tended to avoid situations they thought would…

Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin; 164 individual participants (students, teachers and children) plus two group experiments; mean ratio of interrupted to completed tasks recalled…

Zell and Krizan combine 22 meta-analyses that compared self-evaluations of ability with objective measures of performance, across academic ability, intelligence, language competence, medical skills…

Zemack-Rugar first author. The moderator is the shopper's relationship with the brand. Committed relationships carry stronger compliance norms, so an assertive advert creates more pressure to comply…

Zendle first author. A self-selected online survey of 7,422 gamers found that spending on loot boxes was associated with the severity of problem gambling, and that this association was substantially…

Zendle first author. A replication with 1,172 gamers, designed to address the self-selection of the earlier sample and participants' awareness of the study's aims, reproduced an association between…

Zendle, sole author. A before-and-after study of 112 players of one multiplayer game, observed either side of the developer removing loot boxes, found what the author calls a complex pattern of…

Zessin and colleagues meta-analysed seventy-nine samples, more than sixteen thousand people, on the relationship between self-compassion and wellbeing. The overall association is moderate to large…

the same progress raises or lowers commitment depending on whether it is attributed to oneself or to circumstance, and on the stage of goal pursuit.

extant scales confine FOMO to social media; new two-dimensional scale, personal and social FOMO, across four studies.