Studies (page 125)
- Vazire (2004): e-Perceptions: Personality impressions based on personal websites
Eleven observers viewed 89 personal websites and rated the authors' personalities. Ratings were checked against criteria built from self-reports and informant reports. Observers agreed with one…
- Veeraraghavan (2009): Joining longer queues: Information externalities in queue choice
Veeraraghavan and Debo start from the point that queue length can signal either higher demand or slower service, so customers may read a long line as a sign of quality. They study this information…
- Vendor material (2008): twelve million dollars from one field
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Venkatraman (2015): Predicting advertising success beyond traditional measures: New insights from neurophysiological methods and market response modeling
Venkatraman and colleagues test 30-second television advertisements with six types of measurement, among them self-reports, eye tracking, EEG and fMRI, and relate the measures to market-level sales…
- Vermeir (2023): What are the shape friendly locations to sell misshapen tomatoes? The effect of point of purchase on consumers' abnormality perception and probability to buy
Vermeir, Petrescu and Petrescu-Mag, Food Quality and Preference 106, 2023, 104809. Two online surveys of 1,021 Romanian and British consumers on misshapen tomatoes by point of purchase. Misshapen…
- Verplanken (2006): Interventions to break and create consumer habits
Belief-change interventions unlikely to change habits; downstream-plus interventions at moments such as moving household or changing jobs; upstream interventions disrupt old cues and establish new…
- Verplanken (2016): Empowering interventions to promote sustainable lifestyles: Testing the habit discontinuity hypothesis in a field experiment
Verplanken and Roy report a field experiment on whether an intervention promoting sustainable behaviour works better for people going through a life transition such as moving house. Half the…
- Vicary (2010): Captured by true crime: Why are women drawn to tales of rape, murder, and serial killers? Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(1), 81-86. doi:10.1177/1948550609355486 https://doi.org/10.117
Vicary and Fraley, Social Psychological and Personality Science 1(1), 2010, 81-86. Studies 1 and 2 analysed readers' actual book choices: women gravitated toward true crime, men toward other violent…
- Villar (2013): Where am I? A meta-analysis of experiments on the effects of progress indicators for web surveys
32 randomised experiments; constant indicators did not significantly reduce breakoff overall and increased it where a small incentive was promised; fast-to-slow indicators reduced breakoff…
- Vine (2020): Natural emotion vocabularies as windows on distress and well-being
Vine, Boyd and Pennebaker asked whether the range of emotion words a person actually uses tells you anything about their life. Rather than administering a vocabulary test, they measured the emotion…
- Vlachopoulos (2000): Hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis of the Flow State Scale in exercise
[abstract only; full text not retrieved, 2026-10-20] Vlachopoulos, S. P., Karageorghis, C. I., & Terry, P. C. (2000). 'Hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis of the Flow State Scale in exercise.'…
- Vohs (2007): Spent resources: self-regulatory resource availability affects impulse buying
Three investigations; depleted participants felt stronger urges to buy, were willing to spend more and spent more.
- Vohs (2008): Making choices impairs subsequent self-control: A limited-resource account of decision making, self-regulation, and active initiative
Vohs and colleagues tested the idea that making many choices impairs later self-control, on the view that decision making draws on the same resource as self-regulation. In laboratory studies some…
- Vohs (2013): Rituals enhance consumption
Vohs, Wang, Gino and Norton, Psychological Science 24(9), 2013, 1714-1721. Four experiments. Experiment 1: 52 students; a ritual of breaking a wrapped chocolate bar in two, then unwrapping and…
- Vohs (2021): A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect
36 laboratories, N = 3,531; confirmatory d = 0.06, nonsignificant; data four times more likely under the null than the informed prior.
- Vohs (2021): A multisite preregistered paradigmatic test of the ego-depletion effect
36 laboratories, N = 3,531; confirmatory d = 0.06, nonsignificant; data four times more likely under the null than the informed prior.
- Voinea (2024): Digital Slot Machines: Social Media Platforms as Attentional Scaffolds
Voinea and colleagues develop a philosophical comparison between social media platforms and slot machines, both described as hostile attentional scaffolds: structures in the environment that shape…
- Voinea (2024): Digital Slot Machines: Social Media Platforms as Attentional Scaffolds
Voinea (2024), Digital Slot Machines: Social Media Platforms as Attentional Scaffolds. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- von Hippel (2011): The evolution and psychology of self-deception
William von Hippel and Robert Trivers argue that self-deception evolved to make interpersonal deception more effective. By hiding the truth from the self, a person hides the cues that could reveal a…
- von Restorff (1933): Über die Wirkung von Bereichsbildungen im Spurenfeld
German abstract on the Springer page, paraphrased; the paper itself is in German and was read through Hunt (1995).