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- Updegraff (2026): Adults’ exercise-related ‘all-or-nothing’ thinking and leisure-time physical activity: a scoping review
Updegraff and colleagues went looking for research on a familiar pattern: a person who cannot follow their exercise plan exactly decides to do nothing at all rather than do a reduced version. They…
- Urban (2019): Green consumption does not make people cheat: Three attempts to replicate moral licensing effect due to pro-environmental behavior
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL at the Charles University Environment Centre record, which prints it entire; full text not read] Urban, J., Bahnik, S., & Braun Kohlova, M. (2019). 'Green consumption does not…
- Urquhart (2018): fMRI evidence supporting the role of memory conflict in the déjà vu experience
Urquhart, Sivakumaran, Macfarlane and O'Connor, Memory 29(7), published online 2018, 921-932. Modified word-list false memory task pairing false familiarity with cues showing it was mistaken. 21…
- US Census Bureau. Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales (2026): , and time series tsadjustedsales.xlsx (revised 18 August 2026). https://www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html
The US Census Bureau's seasonally adjusted series of online sales as a share of retail sales. The share was 11.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, 16.3 per cent in the second, about 14 per cent…
- US Federal Trade Commission (2022): FTC report shows rise in sophisticated dark patterns designed to trick and trap consumers
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- US Food and Drug Administration (1997): Investigational New Drug Applications; Proposed Amendment to Clinical Hold Regulations for Products Intended for Life-Threatening Diseases
describes the 1977 guideline 'General Considerations for the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs', developed written in the wake of the thalidomide experience a decade earlier, which stated that women of…
- US Food and Drug Administration (2025): Evaluation of Sex Differences in Clinical Investigations: Guidance for Industry
describes the FDA guideline of 22 July 1993 as lifting a restriction on most women with childbearing potential entering Phase 1 and early Phase 2 trials and as now encouraging their participation.
- US Food and Drug Administration. 'Artificial Intelligence-En: Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Medical Devices
1,614 listed devices, 1,230 in radiology, 1,553 with 510(k) submission numbers; the FDA states the list is not a comprehensive resource; a 510(k) demonstrates a device is 'substantially equivalent'…
- US General Accounting Office (2001): Drug Safety: Most Drugs Withdrawn in Recent Years Had Greater Health Risks for Women
10 prescription drugs withdrawn since 1 January 1997; 8 posed greater health risks for women; 4 of these may have led to more adverse events in women because they were prescribed more often to women.
- Utz (2010): Show me your friends and I will tell you what type of person you are: How one's profile, number of friends, and type of friends influence impression formation on social network sites
Utz varied a target's own extraversion, the extraversion of the target's friends and the number of friends shown, and measured perceived popularity, communal orientation and social attractiveness…
- Utz (2011): The role of social network sites in romantic relationships: Effects on jealousy and relationship happiness
Utz and Beukeboom, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 16(4), 2011, 511-527. Social network sites make partner information visible to friends. Tested whether relationship satisfaction, trait…
- Utz (2019): (Un)informed Consent
Utz first author. Three field experiments on a live German website with more than 80,000 unique users varied the position of a consent notice, the type of choice and the framing. Users were more…
- Vadillo (2016): The Bitter Truth About Sugar and Willpower
Vadillo, Gold and Osman examined the proposal that glucose is the limited resource behind ego depletion, which was what allowed the depletion metaphor to be presented as a physiological mechanism…
- Vaidis (2024): A multilab replication of the induced-compliance paradigm of cognitive dissonance
Vaidis first author of a multilab constructive replication of the induced-compliance paradigm across 39 laboratories, 19 countries and 14 languages, with 4,898 participants. The primary analyses…
- Vaish (2008): Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in social-emotional development
Vaish, Grossmann and Woodward, Psychological Bulletin 134(3), 2008, 383-403. Review arguing that adults attend to, learn from and rely on negative information more than positive, that the bias is…
- Vakratsas (1999): How advertising works: What do we really know? Journal of Marketing, 63(1), 26-43. doi:10.1177/002224299906300103 https://doi.org/10.1177/002224299906300103
Vakratsas and Ambler, Journal of Marketing 63(1), 1999, 26-43. Review of more than 250 journal articles and books on how advertising affects consumers. Groups effects into intermediate (beliefs…
- Vallerand (2003): Les passions de l’âme: On obsessive and harmonious passion
Vallerand and colleagues define passion as a strong inclination toward an activity people like, find important and invest time and energy in. They propose two types. Obsessive passion is a…
- Vallerand (2008): Passion and performance attainment in sport
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Valtorta (2016): Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies
Valtorta, Kanaan, Gilbody, Ronzi and Hanratty undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between loneliness or social isolation and incident coronary heart disease and…
- Van Bavel (2019): Rethinking the Infamous Stanford Prison Experiment
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.