Studies (page 24)

Belief-change interventions unlikely to change habits; downstream-plus interventions at moments such as moving household or changing jobs; upstream interventions disrupt old cues and establish new…

Vine, Boyd and Pennebaker asked whether the range of emotion words a person actually uses tells you anything about their life. Rather than administering a vocabulary test, they measured the emotion…

Three investigations; depleted participants felt stronger urges to buy, were willing to spend more and spent more.

36 laboratories, N = 3,531; confirmatory d = 0.06, nonsignificant; data four times more likely under the null than the informed prior.

36 laboratories, N = 3,531; confirmatory d = 0.06, nonsignificant; data four times more likely under the null than the informed prior.

Voinea and colleagues develop a philosophical comparison between social media platforms and slot machines, both described as hostile attentional scaffolds: structures in the environment that shape…

German abstract on the Springer page, paraphrased; the paper itself is in German and was read through Hunt (1995).

None published, as this is a research letter, and the full text could not be opened; read the PubMed record (authors, title, pages) and Stanford Graduate School of Business's summary, which gives…

A brain-imaging study of 24 smokers viewing graphic cigarette warnings. Warnings that produced stronger emotional reactions were better remembered and were associated with a reduced urge to smoke…

Wansink, Painter and North used self-refilling soup bowls to test whether visual cues about portion size change how much people eat without changing what they think they have eaten. Fifty-four…

Watkins and colleagues tested a therapy designed to target rumination specifically, rather than depression in general, in patients whose depression had persisted despite medication. Forty-two people…

A randomised crossover trial led by Sinead Watson. Fifty people attended the first visit and ate the same 380 kcal granola and yoghurt breakfast on two mornings a week apart, labelled once as a 500…

Wegner's theory explains why trying not to think about something makes it more present. Any attempt to control the mind, he argues, sets two processes running. One searches for material consistent…

Weingarten trained rats to associate an arbitrary external signal, unrelated to food in itself, with being fed. Once the association was learned, presenting the signal caused the animals to eat even…

Danish National Patient Registry, all public and private hospital admissions 1994 to 2015, 6,909,676 patients; 986 diagnoses with a sex difference in age at first hospital diagnosis, women older in…

Personalisation reactance to highly personalised messages when the fit between offer and personal characteristics is not explicitly justified; effect primarily among consumers who perceive the…

Whitelock and colleagues attempted to replicate a finding that had become standard advice, that paying close attention to a meal while eating it reduces how much you eat later. Two experiments, with…

This paper re-examines the brooding and reflection distinction rather than assuming it. Its design is the useful part: the factor structure of the rumination measure was tested separately in people…

Robert Wicklund and Peter Gollwitzer's book setting out symbolic self-completion theory: people pursue identities by acquiring symbols of them, and social recognition of the identity can serve as…

Williams and Bargh reported two experiments connecting physical temperature to social judgment. In the first, participants who had briefly held a cup of hot coffee rather than iced coffee rated a…