Studies (page 2)

Four blind tastings of 2006 red Bordeaux and 2009 white Burgundy, $20 to $119, wine club members; no relationship between price and enjoyment in three, a negative relationship in the fourth.

MIT digital currency experiment, autumn 2014; 3,108 undergraduates; pizza incentive randomised to half; in the incentive subsample, all-invalid friend emails 5 per cent under 'Ask' against 2.5 per…

This is the published critique of a paper reporting that rigorous methods produce very high replication rates. Its argument, carried in its title, is that a claim about scientific rigour has to meet…

Bakermans-Kranenburg and colleagues meta-analysed seventy studies of programmes intended to improve parental sensitivity and infant attachment security, covering several thousand families…

FMRI shopping task with personal credit card or own cash; 28 completed, 27 analysed; striatal activation at credit card cue onset, unrelated to price; reward activity weakly predicted cash…

This is the paper behind the best-known demonstration of behavioural priming. Participants unscrambled sentences containing words associated with old age, and were then timed as they walked down the…

32 full papers, 35 theories; disclosure driven by risk-benefit evaluation or by risk assessment deemed none or negligible.

Barton, Zlatevska and Oppewal meta-analyse the effect of product scarcity cues on consumer purchase intentions, motivated by the fragmented state of a literature in which retailers deploy many kinds…

166 studies, 34 countries, n = 75,269; concerns did not predict social network site use but predicted less use of online services, less information sharing and more protective measures; privacy…

Bateman, Munro and Poe take the decoy effect into choice experiments and contingent valuation, the methods used to value goods that have no market price. A dominated choice is one in which an option…

Baumeister and Leary's review argues that the need to belong is not one motive among many but a fundamental human drive, and they test that claim against the evidence rather than asserting it. Their…

This is the paper that introduced ego depletion. Four experiments shared one design: do something requiring self-control, then see how well self-control works afterwards. People made to eat radishes…

This paper's title states its claim: that ego depletion is the best replicated finding in social psychology. It was published while the large coordinated replication attempts were reporting effects…

419 MBA students at Boston University, 48 sealed-bid auctions, jars worth $8.00; mean estimate $5.13; mean winning bid $10.01; average loss $2.01; uncertainty and number of bidders widen the curse.

This is not a study. It is the support page of Beat, the United Kingdom's eating disorder charity, and it appears in an article's sources because the article touched on disordered eating and the…

Beknazar-Yuzbashev and colleagues note that the sunk cost effect, endlessly discussed in practice and in teaching, remains difficult to demonstrate cleanly, and argue that the usual test design is…

Belanger-Gravel and colleagues meta-analysed twenty-six studies testing whether implementation intentions, the technique of deciding in advance exactly when, where and how you will act, increase…

Panel data holding the shopper constant; unplanned buying increases monotonically with the abstractness of the trip goal; higher when the store is chosen for pricing, lower on multistore trips.

Bellezza and colleagues examine how observers react to nonconforming behaviours, such as entering a luxury boutique in gym clothes rather than an elegant outfit, or wearing red sneakers in a…

Jonah Berger and Chip Heath report seven studies on why people abandon cultural tastes. People diverged from tastes adopted by groups they saw as dissimilar to themselves, consistent with the idea…