Studies (page 34)

Analytical model and simulation; recommenders can push each person to new products but often push users toward the same products; individual diversity can rise while aggregate diversity falls…

Raphael Flepp, Oliver Merz and Egon Franck ask whether outcome bias persists in markets where participants have financial incentives to decide well. Using European football match data and a betting…

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Flyvbjerg, Holm and Buhl report what they describe as the first statistically significant study of cost escalation in transportation infrastructure projects, covering a sample of 258 projects across…

Flyvbjerg comments on the Harvard Business Review article by Lovallo and Kahneman, praising its account of overoptimism, anchoring, competitor neglect and the outside view in forecasting. He argues…

Fogg's 2009 paper proposes a behaviour model for persuasive design. The article names the paper and credits the model to Fogg; the account of the model (motivation, ability and a prompt arriving…

Fogg (2009), A behavior model for persuasive design. Cited in 1 article on this site.

Fong, Zaleski and Leach pooled 28 studies on the challenge-skill balance and flow. The abstract reports a moderate relationship, smaller for intrinsic motivation, and weaker correlations in…

This is President Ford's signing statement for the Motor Vehicle and School Bus Safety Amendments of 1974, dated 28 October 1974, the day after the bill was approved. It says the act does away with…

Forer gave a diagnostic questionnaire to 39 students in his introductory psychology class and a week later gave each of them an identical personality description made of vague, general statements…

Amazon data; reviews containing identity-descriptive information rated more positively; prevalence of reviewer identity disclosure associated with increases in subsequent sales; shared geographical…

Cyrus Foroughi and colleagues recruited 50 participants, 25 per group, with one of two flyers. One flyer advertised brain training and stated that numerous studies have shown working memory training…

Forscher and colleagues ran a network meta-analysis of 492 studies to ask whether procedures can change implicit measures, which they treat as response biases on implicit tasks, and how such…

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Fowler and Christakis analysed the Framingham Heart Study social network, following 4,739 people from 1983 to 2003. Happy and unhappy people formed clusters reaching up to three degrees of…

Craig Fox and Liat Hadar reanalyse the data of Hertwig, Barron, Weber and Erev (2004) and add a replication with 46 students. They separate three possible sources of the apparent reversal of…

A commentary by Kieran Fox and colleagues on the 2014 thinking studies. It points out that 57 per cent of participants in the shock study never shocked themselves and only 17 per cent gave more than…

A Cochrane review led by D. R. Foxcroft of 70 studies with 44,958 university and college students on social norms information for alcohol misuse. Effects at four months or more were very small…

Fradkin first author. A large field experiment on an accommodation platform changed one design choice: in the treatment group feedback stayed hidden until both parties had submitted a review, rather…

Fraley tested the two competing accounts of how early attachment relates to later attachment. The prototype account holds that early representations persist and continue to influence behaviour…