Studies (page 20)

Roisman and colleagues tested an idea that had become popular in the attachment literature: earned security, the person who describes a difficult childhood coherently and goes on to parent well…

Roisman and colleagues addressed a problem that had been quietly undermining the attachment literature: two different measures both called attachment, one a lengthy developmental interview about a…

Rolls and colleagues served fifty-one men and women lunch once a week for four weeks, varying only the amount of food presented, from a moderate portion to double it. People ate more when given…

Low perceived differentiation across many categories and two countries; customers still buy; distinctiveness placed at the centre of brand strategy. Category averages of 11, 10 and 17 per cent and…

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Röseler and colleagues address a decade of research relating anchoring susceptibility to personality traits, including intelligence, the Big Five and narcissism, which has produced contradictory…

Roth and colleagues meta-analysed ninety-eight effect sizes on the sunk cost effect and made a distinction the literature had been blurring. Decisions where money has already been spent come in two…

Rozin and colleagues asked what actually tells a person a meal is over, and tested the answer with two patients whose amnesia was so severe they could not retain events for more than about a minute…

Rubin and colleagues document the reminiscence bump. When older adults recall their lives, memories cluster disproportionately in the years between roughly ten and thirty: the most memories, the…

Cristel Antonia Russell had a 27-minute sitcom produced in three versions and showed it to 107 students, varying whether brands were seen or spoken and whether they were tied to the plot. Spoken…

This is the widely cited statement of self-determination theory for a general psychological audience, and the paper most people mean when they cite the theory itself. Its argument is that motivation…

Randomised field experiments with three companies and millions of recipients; recipient's name in subject line raised opens from 9.05 to 10.80 per cent (20 per cent), leads from 0.39 to 0.51 per…

Salganik, with Peter Dodds and Duncan Watts, built an artificial music market and published it in Science. In it 14,341 participants listened to and downloaded songs by bands they had never heard…

Salimpoor and colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine what happens when a piece of music acquires reward value on first hearing. Participants listened to unfamiliar music…

Scaife and Bruner produced the first systematic description of infants following another person's gaze. They tested children across a range of ages, and reported that most infants of eight to ten…

Schaffer and Emerson's 1964 monograph reported a longitudinal study of Glasgow infants observed across their first eighteen months, and it is cited for findings that complicated the picture of…

Scheel, Schijen and Lakens compared what gets published when the decision to publish is made before the results are known. Registered Reports are reviewed and accepted on the basis of the question…

54 recruited at Bonn University, 30 analysed after exclusions; price cues of €3 and €18 on identical wines; higher prices raised pleasantness ratings (described by the authors as replicating the…

Using the original and new eBay data, argues a key condition for identifying nonstandard behaviour may not have been met; overbidding consistent with standard behaviour once search costs are included.

Schneider, Weinmann, Mohr and vom Brocke challenge the assumption that consumer ratings simply reflect consumer satisfaction, arguing that they can be influenced by the design of the rating system…