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Abstract, contents and Part IV opening): the paradox described as 'a myth created by faulty logic'; behaviour as context-specific risk decisions versus general attitudes; privacy self-management…

Petrov and colleagues ran a registered, high-powered replication of a well-known set of studies claiming that sunk costs of time affect people less than sunk costs of money, on the reasoning that…

Song and Schwarz show that low processing fluency fosters the impression that a stimulus is unfamiliar, and that this impression in turn produces perceptions of higher risk, independent of whether…

Sparrow, Liu and Wegner ran four experiments on what happens to memory when information is always retrievable. Two findings came out of them. First, when people were asked difficult factual…

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Spence's review is the standard reference for the claim that colour is the single most important product-intrinsic sensory cue for setting people's expectations about the likely taste and flavour of…

Sperandei and colleagues followed the membership records of more than five thousand people who joined a gym in Rio de Janeiro over nine years, tracking each person for a year or until they…

This is another company disclosure cited as industry data. Sphere Entertainment reported that its Las Vegas venue took around 379 million dollars from approximately 1.7 million tickets across 2025…

Staw's study gave the field escalation of commitment. Business students allocated research funding to one division of a company, were told their decision had gone badly or well, and were then given…

Steptoe, Shankar, Demakakos and Wardle ask whether the effects of social isolation and loneliness on mortality are independent, or whether loneliness is the emotional pathway through which isolation…

Stewart and Goss re-examined whether plate colour affects taste, this time alongside plate shape and using plates with more angular corners than earlier work. Using a two-by-two between-subjects…

Mental trip budgets contain an itemised portion and in-store slack; incidence of slack found in a secondary data set and a field study.

27 studies, 1,466 patients, median follow-up five years; misdiagnosis 29 per cent (1950s), 17 per cent (1960s), 4 per cent (1970s, 1980s, 1990s); decline independent of age, sex and symptom duration…

Sugden, Zheng and Zizzo ran the experiment that establishes when an anchor actually moves money. Rather than asking people to estimate an unknown quantity, they used real buying and selling…

Sweis and colleagues built two matched foraging tasks, one for rodents and one for humans, in which a subject waits for a reward and can abandon the wait at any point. Mice, rats and people all…

Szaszi, Higney, Charlton, Tipton and colleagues reply to the same meta-analysis from a different direction. Their reading is that nudge interventions may work under certain conditions, and that the…

Takano and Tanno sampled people's thoughts eight times a day for a week, at semi-random intervals, recording what they were thinking about and how they felt. People prone to rumination showed…

Taylor and colleagues argue that the standard account of the human stress response, fight or flight, was built largely on male subjects and describes only part of what happens. Their proposal is…

Taylor and colleagues reviewed the studies that measured adult attachment before and after psychological therapy, asking whether attachment representations change with treatment. Across both…