Studies (page 134)

Zajonc reported that repeated exposure alone made attitudes towards nonsense words and symbols more positive. Reading depth: abstract only; no figures used.

Zajonc argues against theories in which affect follows cognition. Findings on preferences, attitudes, impression formation and decision making suggest that affective judgements can be largely…

Zaki and Cai, Neuropsychopharmacology 50(1), 2025, 285-293 (online 2024). Review of memory encoding, consolidation and recall in sparse neural ensembles; argues engram representations are more…

the best positive result in the file. Two experiments. In Study 1, participants' extraversion was first assessed from their own text data using a personality profiling algorithm, and they were then…

Zatorre and Salimpoor review how the brain gets from perceiving a pattern of sound to a pleasurable response. They identify auditory cortical circuits responsible for encoding and storing tonal…

Zauberman, Ratner and Kim, Journal of Consumer Research 35(5), 2009, 715-728. Five studies on strategic memory protection. In the first two, people tended to avoid situations they thought would…

Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin; 164 individual participants (students, teachers and children) plus two group experiments; mean ratio of interrupted to completed tasks recalled…

Zell and Krizan combine 22 meta-analyses that compared self-evaluations of ability with objective measures of performance, across academic ability, intelligence, language competence, medical skills…

Zemack-Rugar first author. The moderator is the shopper's relationship with the brand. Committed relationships carry stronger compliance norms, so an assertive advert creates more pressure to comply…

Zendle first author. A self-selected online survey of 7,422 gamers found that spending on loot boxes was associated with the severity of problem gambling, and that this association was substantially…

Zendle first author. A replication with 1,172 gamers, designed to address the self-selection of the earlier sample and participants' awareness of the study's aims, reproduced an association between…

Zendle, sole author. A before-and-after study of 112 players of one multiplayer game, observed either side of the developer removing loot boxes, found what the author calls a complex pattern of…

Zessin and colleagues meta-analysed seventy-nine samples, more than sixteen thousand people, on the relationship between self-compassion and wellbeing. The overall association is moderate to large…

Zetik and Stuhlmacher, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations 5(1), 2002, 35-52. Meta-analysis of 22 research reports. Negotiators with specific, challenging goals earned higher profits than those…

Zhang, Feick and Price, PSPB 32(6), 2006, 794-805. Independent self-construal linked to liking angular shapes, interdependent to rounded; stronger when others will evaluate preferences; field study…

the same progress raises or lowers commitment depending on whether it is attributed to oneself or to circumstance, and on the stage of goal pursuit.

Zhang and Epley, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 141(4), 2012, 667-681. Gift giving involves the value of the object and the symbolic meaning of the exchange. Givers do not experience…

extant scales confine FOMO to social media; new two-dimensional scale, personal and social FOMO, across four studies.

Zhang and Zhang, Frontiers in Psychology 13, 2022, article 946527. An online survey study of blind box purchases reports that product uncertainty raised purchase intention mainly through emotional…

Zhang, Dempsey and Cameron surveyed 670 UK residents about preferences and emotional responses to computer-generated images of daisy-like flowers in eight colours. White, blue and orange were most…