Studies (page 16)

Morewedge and colleagues tested whether reasoning biases can be trained away, a question on which the field had largely given up. Earlier attempts at training had achieved little, which pushed…

Lexical analysis of experts' tasting comments; a white wine artificially coloured red with an odourless dye was described olfactorily as a red wine by a panel of 54 tasters. First author is Gil…

Morrow and Nolen-Hoeksema's study is the experimental counterpart to the response styles theory the same author proposed. The theory holds that what people do when their mood drops determines how…

Muris and Petrocchi raise a measurement problem that changes how the whole self-compassion literature should be read. The standard scale contains two kinds of item: half describe self-compassion…

This short paper continues the argument about how the Self-Compassion Scale should be scored, replying to the case for a single total score. The position defended here is that compassionate and…

Three mixed-methods studies in lab and field; as sunlight exposure increases, negative affect decreases and spending tends to increase. Study detail read in the authors' extended abstract in…

Mussweiler, Strack and Pfeiffer tested whether anchoring can be reduced deliberately, and found one strategy that works. Their reasoning comes from the selective accessibility model, in which an…

This is a broadcaster's press release, cited as an audience record. It reports that Super Bowl LX reached a peak audience of around 137.8 million viewers late in the second quarter, described as the…

Habitual cinema popcorn eaters ate equal amounts of stale and fresh popcorn, minimally influenced by hunger or liking, only in the cinema (Study 1) and only with the dominant hand (Study 2)…

Neff's paper defines self-compassion as a construct with three components: kindness towards oneself in pain or failure rather than harsh self-criticism, recognition that the experience is part of…

This is the companion paper that built the instrument, the Self-Compassion Scale, which made the construct measurable and produced the research that followed. It reports a series of studies…

This paper reports the first tests of the Mindful Self-Compassion programme, an eight-week course designed to teach the skill rather than merely measure it. A small pilot found gains in…

This is the largest examination of how the Self-Compassion Scale is structured, using twenty samples and more than eleven thousand people across seven English and thirteen non-English datasets…

This is a reply in the continuing argument about how the Self-Compassion Scale should be scored. The criticism it answers holds that the scale contains two different things, items describing…

This review, by the researcher who defined the construct, is the most complete single statement of the self-compassion literature. It sets out the theoretical model as six elements, three present…

Seven experiments; luxury manipulated through brand labels on clothes; preferential treatment and financial benefits.

Newell and Shanks use anchoring as a test case for the theory behind behavioural priming. That framework assumes primes have broad effects, influencing a wide range of downstream behaviours, and…

A cross-sectional imaging study of 50 adult smokers viewing pictorial health warnings. Warnings activated visual and emotional networks, and smokers who rated labels as more emotionally arousing…

This is the independent audience measurement for the same broadcast, and the reason both it and the broadcaster's release are cited. Nielsen's final figure for Super Bowl LX, using its combined big…

A meta-analysis and large replication with 399 participants testing the unconscious thought advantage, the claim that complex decisions are better made after a period of distraction than after…