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- Westgate (2018): Boring thoughts and bored minds: The MAC model of boredom and cognitive engagement
Westgate and Wilson, Psychological Review 125(5), 2018, 689-713. MAC model: boredom is an affective signal that attention is unsuccessfully engaged in valued, goal-congruent activity. Attention and…
- Wētā Workshop. The Lord of the Rings (2026): Wētā Workshop. The Lord of the Rings, project page. https://www.wetaworkshop.com/projects/lord-of-the-rings/ (accessed 2026-11-03).
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Whillans (2017): Buying time promotes happiness
Whillans, Dunn, Smeets, Bekkers and Norton, PNAS 114(32), 2017, 8523-8527. Large diverse samples from the United States, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands (n = 6,271): individuals who spend money…
- White (2008): Getting too personal: reactance to highly personalized email solicitations
Personalisation reactance to highly personalised messages when the fit between offer and personal characteristics is not explicitly justified; effect primarily among consumers who perceive the…
- White (2023): More educated, more WEIRD: Higher education predicts worldwide cultural similarity to the United States and other WEIRD countries
[NOT READ. PREPRINT, NOT PEER REVIEWED. Located as a reference in Schimmelpfennig and colleagues 2024 and in Petrutiu and colleagues 2026, both of which cite it for the claim that higher formal…
- Whitelock (2018): No effect of focused attention whilst eating on later snack food intake: Two laboratory experiments
Whitelock and colleagues attempted to replicate a finding that had become standard advice, that paying close attention to a meal while eating it reduces how much you eat later. Two experiments, with…
- Whitmer (2011): Brooding and Reflection Reconsidered: A Factor Analytic Examination of Rumination in Currently Depressed, Formerly Depressed, and Never Depressed Individuals
This paper re-examines the brooding and reflection distinction rather than assuming it. Its design is the useful part: the factor structure of the rumination measure was tested separately in people…
- Whitson (2008): Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception
Whitson and Galinsky, Science 322(5898), 2008, 115-117. Six experiments testing whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception, the perception of meaningful connections among random…
- Wicklund (1982): Symbolic Self-Completion
Robert Wicklund and Peter Gollwitzer's book setting out symbolic self-completion theory: people pursue identities by acquiring symbols of them, and social recognition of the identity can serve as…
- Wiessner (2014): Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen
Wiessner, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014. Comparison of 174 day and night conversations among Ju/'hoan people plus 68 translated texts. Day talk centred on economic matters…
- Wijaya (2012): The development of hierarchy of effects model in advertising
Wijaya, International Research Journal of Business Studies 5(1), 2012, 73-85. Reflective review of the development of the hierarchy of effects model in advertising. Attributes AIDA to writing from…
- Wilding (2016): The question-behaviour effect: A theoretical and methodological review and meta-analysis
Wilding and colleagues overview research on the question-behaviour effect, review three theoretical accounts (behavioural simulation and processing fluency, attitude accessibility, cognitive…
- Wildschut (2006): Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions
Wildschut, Sedikides, Arndt and Routledge report seven studies on nostalgia: nostalgic memories usually centre on the self with close others or major life events and are more positive than negative…
- Wildschut (2014): Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group
Wildschut, Bruder, Robertson, van Tilburg and Sedikides, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 107(5), 2014, 844-863. Four studies. Recalling a nostalgic event shared with ingroup members led…
- Wiley (2018): False Emergency Alert in Hawaii
These are remarks given by an attorney adviser of the Federal Communications Commission to its open meeting on 30 January 2018, setting out the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau's early…
- Wilkes (2022): Can Ikigai Predict Anxiety, Depression, and Well-being?
[THE ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE via the Semantic Scholar record, which prints it entire. THE FULL TEXT WAS NOT READ] Wilkes, J., Garip, G., Kotera, Y., & Fido, D. (2022). 'Can Ikigai Predict…
- Wilkins (2011): Souvenirs: What and why we buy
Wilkins, Journal of Travel Research 50(3), 2011, 239-247. A study of what tourists buy as souvenirs and why, including the effect of gender. It finds that souvenirs serve mainly as evidence of the…
- Williams (1986): The Impact of Television: A Natural Experiment in Three Communities
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Williams (2008): Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth
Williams and Bargh reported two experiments connecting physical temperature to social judgment. In the first, participants who had briefly held a cup of hot coffee rather than iced coffee rated a…
- Willis (2004): Alcohol ignition interlock programmes for reducing drink driving recidivism
Willis and colleagues reviewed the evidence on whether fitting a breath-testing ignition interlock to the vehicles of drivers sanctioned for drink driving reduces reoffending. The device stops the…