Studies (page 131)
- Wolf (2008): The power of touch: An examination of the effect of duration of physical contact on the valuation of objects
Wolf, Arkes and Muhanna, Judgment and Decision Making 3(6), 2008, 476-482. Two versions of the mug experiment varied how long participants handled mugs before bidding with real money, in an open…
- Wolfe (2007): Adaptive redundancy, denominator neglect, and the base-rate fallacy
Wolfe's open peer commentary sets out the prediction that nested or overlapping class-inclusion relations create processing interference, leading people to act as if they ignore marginal…
- Wonders (2025): Measuring flow: Refining research protocols that integrate physiological and psychological approaches
[abstract only; the open-access PDF returned an empty body and the full text is not read] Wonders, M., Hodgson, D., & Whitton, N. (2025). 'Measuring flow: Refining research protocols that integrate…
- Wong (2015): Preferences for pink and blue: The development of color preferences as a distinct gender-typed behavior in toddlers
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wong (2021): External validation of a widely implemented proprietary sepsis prediction model in hospitalized patients
27,697 patients, 38,455 hospitalisations; sepsis in 2,552; AUC 0.63; 1,709 sepsis cases (67 per cent) not identified; alerts for 6,971 of 38,455 (18 per cent); 183 identified who did not receive…
- Wong, A., Otles, E., Donnelly, J. P., Krumm, A., McCullough: Wong, A., Otles, E., Donnelly, J. P., Krumm, A., McCullough, J., DeTroyer-Cooley, O., Pestrue, J., Phillips, M., Konye, J., Penoza, C., Ghous, M., & Singh, K
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Wood (1995): The cocktail party phenomenon revisited: how frequent are attention shifts to one’s name in an irrelevant auditory channel?
Wood and Cowan revisited Moray's own-name result in a shadowing task; the 2001 paper co-written by Cowan reports that 34.6 per cent of their participants noticed their name in the ignored channel…
- Wood (2001): Remote purchase environments: the influence of return policy leniency on two-stage decision processes
Remote purchase framed as order then keep-or-return decisions; the endowment effect suggests benefits of return policy leniency to the retailer; three experiments support the idea that product…
- Wood (2002): Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action
Wood, W., Quinn, J. M., & Kashy, D. A. (2002). 'Habits in Everyday Life: Thought, Emotion, and Action.' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(6), 1281-1297…
- Wood (2003): Forewarned and forearmed? Two meta-analytic syntheses of forewarnings of influence appeals
Wendy Wood and Jeffrey Quinn report two meta-analyses of what happens to attitudes when people are warned that someone is about to try to influence them. A warning generally appeared to threaten…
- Wood (2005): Changing Circumstances, Disrupting Habits
[full text read at source, in sections by targeted search rather than cover to cover, so figure captions and some tables were not inspected] Wood, W., Tam, L., & Guerrero Witt, M. (2005). 'Changing…
- Wood (2005): Changing circumstances, disrupting habits
Wood (2005), Changing circumstances, disrupting habits. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Wood (2009): Positive self-statements: Power for some, peril for others
Joanne Wood, Elaine Perunovic and John Lee ran a survey and two experiments on positive self-statements. The survey found people often use them and believe them to be effective. In the experiments…
- Wood (2009): The habitual consumer
Habits are responses cued by contexts that covaried with past performance, quick to activate and slow to modify; reliance increased by time pressure, distraction and self-control depletion.
- Wood (2020): N-of-1 Trial of a Statin, Placebo, or No Treatment to Assess Side Effects
The first report of the SAMSON trial at Imperial College London, published as correspondence. People who had stopped statins because of side effects rotated through periods taking a statin, an…
- Woollett (2011): Acquiring the Knowledge of London's layout drives structural brain changes
Katherine Woollett and Eleanor Maguire followed trainee London taxi drivers through the training for the licence, known as the Knowledge, which typically takes three to four years, and scanned them…
- Woollett (2011): the Knowledge
Woollett (2011), the Knowledge. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Woolley (2010): Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups
Woolley and colleagues asked whether groups show a shared underlying performance factor, similar to general intelligence in individuals. In two studies of people working in groups of two to five…
- Wootton (2018): Evaluation of the causal effects between subjective wellbeing and cardiometabolic health: mendelian randomisation study
[STRUCTURED ABSTRACT AND RESULTS PARAGRAPH READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the BMJ article page; THE FULL BODY WAS NOT READ] Wootton, R. E., Lawn, R. B., Millard, L. A. C., Davies, N. M., Taylor, A. E…
- Worchel (1975): Effects of supply and demand on ratings of object value.
Worchel, Lee and Adewole asked people to rate the value and attractiveness of cookies that were in either abundant or scarce supply, and varied how the scarcity came about. In the scarce conditions…