Studies (page 14)

This is a pre-registered replication of the bottomless soup bowl experiment, in which a bowl refills slowly and invisibly as the diner eats. The original is one of the most repeated demonstrations…

Loui and colleagues test an evolutionary claim about music as affective communication by comparing a special population against normal variation. They examine white matter connectivity in BW, a case…

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System waves 2005 to 2009; 1,071,290 respondents in the primary analyses; most weather conditions unrelated to life satisfaction; significant effects very small…

Luguri and Strahilevitz report what the paper describes as the first public experimental evidence on dark patterns, meaning interfaces whose designers knowingly confuse people, make it hard for them…

MacBeth and Gumley produced the first systematic review of the relationship between self-compassion and mental health, combining twenty samples from fourteen studies, all of which used the same…

Madden and colleagues report the closest thing to a controlled test of an organ donation default. Wales introduced a soft opt-out system in December 2015 while England kept its opt-in system, which…

The Madhupindika Sutta, the eighteenth discourse of the Majjhima Nikaya, is cited here for its account of papanca, usually translated as conceptual proliferation. The passage traces a sequence…

Madrian and Shea analysed what happened to saving behaviour at one large company when it switched its retirement plan to automatic enrolment. They report two findings. Participation was…

Role-play experiments led by Vincent Magnini found the service recovery paradox most likely when the failure was not severe, the customer had no prior failure with the firm, the cause seemed…

Maier, Bartos, Stanley, Shanks, Harris and Wagenmakers reply to the Mertens meta-analysis by arguing that its finding of moderate publication bias is the real headline. They reanalyse the same…

This is the chapter that introduced the disorganised classification to attachment research. The original Strange Situation procedure sorted infants into three patterns, and a proportion of children…

Mairon and colleagues tested a claim that had been gathering momentum, that experiencing something in the presence of another person attending to the same thing intensifies the experience…

Malle meta-analysed a hundred and seventy-three studies of one of the best-known ideas in social psychology, the actor-observer asymmetry: the claim that people explain their own behaviour by…

42 per cent of board-game auctions exceed the simultaneous fixed price on the same page; 48 per cent in a broad cross-section; 17 per cent of bidders suffice to generate the overbidding; limited…

Maniadis, Tufano and List present new evidence on the strength of anchoring results in economic valuation, and use the case to make a wider methodological argument. Their theoretical framework sets…

Manning, Levine and Collins went back to the archives behind one of the most retold stories in psychology, the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 and the thirty-eight witnesses said to have watched…

Choice sets of two to five wines; large primacy effect; knowledgeable participants showed a recency effect in longer sequences.

This is the paper that goes after the mechanism behind Norton's IKEA effect, and it should be read with that paper rather than as a second confirmation of it. Marsh, with Patricia Kanngiesser and…

Mas-Herrero, Zatorre, Rodriguez-Fornells and Marco-Pallares documented specific musical anhedonia, and the paper's title states the finding: a dissociation between musical and monetary reward…

Arunesh Mathur and colleagues crawled about 53,000 product pages from about 11,000 shopping websites and found 1,818 instances of dark patterns in 15 types and 7 broader categories. They identified…