Studies (page 26)

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…

Studies 1a and 1b, fMRI, n = 78 and n = 117, NAcc self > other, d = 0.41 and d = 0.35; Study 2, n = 37, 195 trials, payoffs of $0.01 to $0.04, 0.63 cents per trial forgone against other-judgement…

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…

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…

Launched in Australia in 2011 with the 150 most popular names; company states it has run in more than 70 countries. Sales figures on the page are company claims and are not used.

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…

47 studies; positive, instructional and motivational self-talk benefited performance; negative self-talk did not impede performance.

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…