Studies (page 126)
- Vonasch (2023): Less is better
Vonasch (2023), Less is better. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Vonasch (2023): Less is better in separate evaluations versus more is better in joint evaluations: Mostly successful close replication and extension of Hsee
A preregistered close replication and extension of three of Hsee's 1998 studies, with 403 participants recruited and 400 analysed in the dinnerware study. It found support for less-is-better in all…
- Vuoskoski (2017): The pleasure evoked by sad music is mediated by feelings of being moved
Vuoskoski and Eerola: in Experiment 1, 308 participants heard 5 sad excerpts and the positive link between felt sadness and liking was fully mediated by being moved; in Experiment 2, 27 excerpts…
- Waber (2008): Commercial features of placebo and therapeutic efficacy
None published, as this is a research letter, and the full text could not be opened; read the PubMed record (authors, title, pages) and Stanford Graduate School of Business's summary, which gives…
- Wageman (1995): Interdependence and Group Effectiveness
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wageman (2001): How Leaders Foster Self-Managing Team Effectiveness: Design Choices Versus Hands-on Coaching
Wageman reports a field study, using several methods, that compares two things leaders do: how they design a team and how they coach it hands-on. Both design and coaching affect how far a team…
- Wagenmakers (2016): Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper
Seventeen laboratories ran direct replications, to one pre-registered protocol, of the first study in Strack, Martin and Stepper's 1988 test of the facial feedback hypothesis, in which people rated…
- Wajcman (2011): Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work
Wajcman and Rose consider how knowledge workers interact with information and communication technologies, which earlier work on interruptions had not adequately conceptualised. Fine-grained data…
- Wald (1980): A Method of Estimating Plane Vulnerability Based on Damage of Survivors
This Center for Naval Analyses publication reprints a series of memoranda that Abraham Wald wrote while working with the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University during the Second World…
- Waldfogel (1993): The deadweight loss of Christmas
Waldfogel, American Economic Review 83(5), 1993, 1328-1336. Surveys of undergraduates at a US university: recipients stated what they would pay for gifts received and what cash they would accept…
- Walker (2009): own About page at significantobjects.com/about/ and Experimental Results page at significantobjects.com/experimental-results/. [BOTH PAGES READ IN FULL by web_fetch.] NOT A STUDY AND NEVER CITED AS ON
Walker (2009), own About page at significantobjects.com/about/ and Experimental Results page at significantobjects.com/experimental-results/. [BOTH PAGES READ IN FULL by web_fetch.] NOT A STUDY AND…
- Walker (2009): to 2012). The Significant Objects Project
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Walker (2010): The brightness-weight illusion: Darker objects look heavier but feel lighter
Walker and colleagues tested whether brightness affects judged weight the way size does. Larger objects look heavier than identical smaller ones but feel lighter once lifted. Participants judged…
- Walker (2015): Old Habits Die Hard: Travel Habit Formation and Decay During an Office Relocation
Walker, Thomas and Verplanken followed workers at a pro-environmental charity in the United Kingdom, evaluated well before the organisation moved its headquarters to another town and again one and…
- Wallis (2014): Revisiting Francis Galton's Forecasting Competition
Wallis revisits the data from the weight-judging contest that Francis Galton described in a 1907 article. After correcting errors in the original records, the paper shows that the contest…
- Wallsten (2013): What Are We Not Doing When We
[READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the NBER working-paper PDF: abstract, introduction, crowdout section, Tables 4 and 6 and the conclusions. NOT A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLE: this is a working paper, later…
- Walsh (2010): Do logo redesigns help or hurt your brand? The role of brand commitment
Walsh, Winterich and Mittal report a field experiment with 632 respondents on logo redesign. Strongly committed consumers evaluated a shift toward a rounder version of an angular logo negatively…
- Walton (2012): Mere belonging: The power of social connections.
Walton, Cohen, Cwir and Spencer report four experiments testing whether minimal social connections, such as sharing a birthday with another student or belonging to an arbitrary group tied to a…
- Wamsley (2010): Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation
Wamsley, Tucker, Payne, Benavides and Stickgold, Current Biology 20(9), 2010, 850-855. 99 students aged 18 to 30 learned a 3D virtual maze, retest 5 hours later, about half napped. Four nappers…
- Wan (2014): Cross-cultural differences in crossmodal correspondences between basic tastes and visual features
Wan, Woods, van den Bosch, McKenzie, Velasco and Spence ran a cross-cultural study of how people link visual features to the five basic tastes. The features were 11 colours, 15 shapes and 2…