Studies (page 25)

Timothy Wilson and Jonathan Schooler report two studies. Students who analysed why they felt as they did about brands of strawberry jam agreed less with experts' ratings than students who did not…

People rated posters and chose one to take home. Those who first analysed their reasons chose a different type of poster from those who did not, and when contacted a few weeks later were less…

Timothy Wilson and colleagues report eleven studies in which participants spent six to fifteen minutes alone with nothing to do but think. On average they did not enjoy it, rated everyday external…

The original team's reply to Fox and colleagues. It accepts that some thinking is enjoyable and that many participants were curious about the shock, but argues that the studies examined directed…

Witzel, O'Regan and Hansmann-Roth ask whether individual differences in perceiving the dress come from a general perceptual strategy, the way an observer attributes features in a two-dimensional…

Witzel and Gegenfurtner review the state of the art on object colours, colour constancy and colour categories. Their framing argument is worth carrying into any discussion of colour perception…

This study's title states its finding: students who forgave themselves for having put off studying for an examination put it off less before the next one. The reasoning behind it is the useful part…

34 undergraduates; 34.6 per cent recalled hearing their name; attention shifts only for the two items following the name.

Remote purchase framed as order then keep-or-return decisions; the endowment effect suggests benefits of return policy leniency to the retailer; three experiments support the idea that product…

Habits are responses cued by contexts that covaried with past performance, quick to activate and slow to modify; reliance increased by time pressure, distraction and self-control depletion.

The first report of the SAMSON trial at Imperial College London, published as correspondence. People who had stopped statins because of side effects rotated through periods taking a statin, an…

Worchel, Lee and Adewole asked people to rate the value and attractiveness of cookies that were in either abundant or scarce supply, and varied how the scarcity came about. In the scarce conditions…

Wyatt and colleagues used continuous glucose monitors on more than a thousand people across British and American cohorts, who ate thousands of standardised meals followed by tens of thousands of…

Yao, Oppewal and Wang examine how consumers respond to unit price increase tactics that change a product's price and its package size at the same time, the two options being cheaper and smaller or…

Yilmaz Balban and colleagues ran a remote randomised controlled study comparing three daily five-minute breathwork exercises against an equivalent period of mindfulness meditation over one month…

This imaging study is cited for the mechanism its title names: after sleep deprivation, the amygdala responds more strongly to unpleasant images, and its usual connection with the prefrontal regions…

Zaccaro and colleagues systematically reviewed slow breathing techniques, defined as fewer than ten breaths per minute, and their psychophysiological effects in healthy subjects, following PRISMA…

Octavia Zahrt and Alia Crum analysed 61,141 American adults from the 1990 National Health Interview Survey and two rounds of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, linked to death…

Zatorre and Salimpoor review how the brain gets from perceiving a pattern of sound to a pleasurable response. They identify auditory cortical circuits responsible for encoding and storing tonal…

Zessin and colleagues meta-analysed seventy-nine samples, more than sixteen thousand people, on the relationship between self-compassion and wellbeing. The overall association is moderate to large…