Studies (page 27)

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…

describes the 1977 guideline 'General Considerations for the Clinical Evaluation of Drugs', developed 'within the protective environment brought on by the thalidomide experience a decade earlier'…

describes the FDA guideline of 22 July 1993 as lifting a restriction on most women with childbearing potential entering Phase 1 and early Phase 2 trials and as now encouraging their participation.

1,614 listed devices, 1,230 in radiology, 1,553 with 510(k) submission numbers; the FDA states the list is not a comprehensive resource; a 510(k) demonstrates a device is 'substantially equivalent'…

10 prescription drugs withdrawn since 1 January 1997; 8 posed greater health risks for women; 4 of these may have led to more adverse events in women because they were prescribed more often to women.

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…

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…

32 randomised experiments; constant indicators did not significantly reduce breakoff overall and increased it where a small incentive was promised; fast-to-slow indicators reduced breakoff…

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…