Studies (page 21)
- Schomburgk (2024): Less cash, more splash? A meta-analysis on the cashless effect
392 effect sizes from 71 papers; small but significant cashless effect; no evidence payment method features influence it; stronger in conspicuous consumption, weaker in pro-social consumption…
- Schroeder (1998): Exposing pluralistic ignorance to reduce alcohol use among college students
C. M. Schroeder and Deborah Prentice ran one-hour discussions with 452 first-year students. Groups heard either a discussion of pluralistic ignorance about drinking or one about individual…
- Schwarz (1983): Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: informative and directive functions of affective states
More happiness and satisfaction with life in a good mood; the negative impact of bad moods eliminated when participants were induced to attribute their feelings to an external source. Weather…
- Schwarz (2003): Mood as information: 20 years later
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Seabrooke (2025): Re-examining the bad news game: no evidence of improved discrimination of Indian true and fake news headlines
The title says what it found. Seabrooke, with Ariana Modirrousta-Galian and Philip Higham, re-examined the Bad News game using Indian true and fake news headlines in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review…
- Seli (2018): How pervasive is mind wandering, really?
Seli and colleagues take aim at a number that had become common knowledge, the claim that people spend between a third and half of their waking lives mind wandering. Their objection is not that…
- Shahab (2021): Sludge and transaction costs
Shahab and Lades examine the relationship between sludge, as behavioural scientists use the term, and transaction costs as understood in economics. Both literatures use an analogy to friction, and…
- Shanks (2017): Regressive research: The pitfalls of post hoc data selection in the study of unconscious mental processes
Shanks identifies a statistical fault running through a large body of research on unconscious processing. The standard design measures two things: performance on some task, and awareness of the…
- Shapira (2010): The benefits of self-compassion and optimism exercises for individuals vulnerable to depression
Shapira and Mongrain compared two brief online exercises, one designed to induce self-compassion and one to induce optimism, against a control task of writing about an early memory, with nearly two…
- Sharp (2019): Marketing's 60/20 Pareto law
Byron Sharp, Jenni Romaniuk and Charles Graham argue that the heaviest fifth of a brand's buyers generally contribute not much more than half of its sales, far from the proverbial 80 per cent, and…
- Sheil (2024): Staying at the Roach Motel: Cross-Country Analysis of Manipulative Subscription and Cancellation Flows
Sheil and colleagues characterise the subscription and cancellation flows of popular news websites in four countries and read them against recent regulatory changes. The premise is the asymmetry…
- Shepherd (2014): Carroll, R. E., & Ferguson, E.
Shepherd, O'Carroll and Ferguson compared donation and transplant rates across forty-eight countries over thirteen years, controlling for extensive covariates and estimating the causal effect of the…
- Sherman (2021): There's Nothing Social about Social Priming: Derailing the "Train Wreck"
Sherman and Rivers argue that the category at the centre of psychology's most public argument does not exist. Social priming was the label attached to a set of high-profile findings that later…
- Shiv (2005): Placebo effects of marketing actions: consumers may get what they pay for
Three experiments; consumers who paid a discounted price for an energy drink thought to increase mental acuity solved fewer puzzles than those who paid the regular price; expectancies mediate the…
- Simonsohn (2011): Spurious? Name similarity effects (implicit egotism) in marriage, job, and moving decisions
Replicates the original findings but shows they are most likely caused by cohort, geographic and ethnic confounds and reverse causality.
- Simonsohn (2016): [47] Evaluating Replications: 40% Full ≠ 60% Empty
This is a blog post rather than a paper, and it is cited because of what it does with the numbers everyone quotes. Discussion of the large reproducibility project in psychology usually reduces it to…
- Slater (1965): Diagnosis of ‘hysteria’
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Slepian (2015): The cognitive consequences of formal clothing
Five studies; action identification, category inclusiveness, global processing; mediation by felt power in Study 5.
- Sloan (2026): Sex and disease differences in patients
Online survey 7 December 2024 to 7 March 2025; 6,607 adults with clinically confirmed autoimmune or inflammatory rheumatic disease, 91.2 per cent female, 69.7 per cent UK, 87.8 per cent White…
- Smith (2013): Knowledge matters: Anchoring effects are moderated by knowledge level
Smith, Windschitl and Bruchmann ran four studies on whether knowing about the subject reduces anchoring, a question the earlier literature had answered inconsistently. It does. Greater knowledge was…