Studies (page 23)

Teixeira and colleagues reviewed sixty-six studies on exercise motivation from the perspective of self-determination theory, covering experiments, cross-sectional surveys and studies that followed…

Thaler's 1980 paper is one of the founding documents of behavioural economics. Its purpose is to collect systematic departures from the standard economic model of the consumer and show that they are…

Credits Capen, Clapp and Campbell with first discussion; 1969 Alaska North Slope sale, winning bids $900 million against $370 million second-highest, winner at least 4 times second bid on 26 per…

Thaler's short piece in Science names the concept this publication uses throughout its coverage of subscriptions and cancellation. He restates the argument of Nudge, that improving the choice…

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Thomas and colleagues note that research on human cooperation has concentrated on the puzzle of altruism, in which one actor incurs a cost to benefit another, and on the psychology of reciprocity…

R. S. Tordesillas and Shelly Chaiken re-examined the effects of introspection on course choice with modified procedures. Introspection again changed decisions, but participants who introspected…

Torre and Lieberman review the research on affect labelling and argue for a particular way of classifying it. Naming a feeling reduces the response to it, but unlike deliberate strategies such as…

This is the psychometric paper that split rumination in two. The response styles questionnaire had treated rumination as one thing, and this analysis of its items found two components inside it…

Norman Triplett examined official racing records and found that cyclists rode faster when paced or when racing against other riders than when riding alone against the clock. He then built a…

Tversky and Kahneman's 1974 paper set out three heuristics people use when judging probability and quantity under uncertainty: representativeness, availability, and anchoring and adjustment…

UNCTAD estimated that across seven economies accounting for most global business-to-consumer online sales, online retail rose from about 16 per cent of retail sales in 2019 to about 19 per cent in…

Updegraff and colleagues went looking for research on a familiar pattern: a person who cannot follow their exercise plan exactly decides to do nothing at all rather than do a reduced version. They…

The US Census Bureau's seasonally adjusted series of online sales as a share of retail sales. The share was 11.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2020, 16.3 per cent in the second, about 14 per cent…

Vadillo, Gold and Osman examined the proposal that glucose is the limited resource behind ego depletion, which was what allowed the depletion metaphor to be presented as a physiological mechanism…

Valtorta, Kanaan, Gilbody, Ronzi and Hanratty undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between loneliness or social isolation and incident coronary heart disease and…

Van den Akker and colleagues compared four hundred and fifty-nine registered research plans in psychology against the papers that eventually reported them, looking specifically at the hypotheses…

Van Doorn, Wuillemin and Spence tested whether the colour of a mug changes how the coffee in it is perceived. In the first experiment, cafe latte drunk from a white mug was rated higher in flavour…

Van IJzendoorn and Kroonenberg pooled nearly two thousand Strange Situation classifications from eight countries to ask whether attachment patterns differ by culture. Their headline result is the…

This paper proposes that the effect of dinnerware size on how much people serve themselves is a version of a known visual illusion, the Delboeuf illusion, in which a circle looks larger or smaller…