Studies (page 4)
- Bruine de Bruin (2005): Save the last dance for me: unwanted serial position effects in jury evaluations
Eurovision Song Contest ratings increased with serial position under end-of-sequence and step-by-step procedures; replicated in World and European Figure Skating Contests.
- Brunstrom (2011): The control of meal size in human subjects: a role for expected satiety, expected satiation and premeal planning
Brunstrom's review challenges the standard account of how much people eat. That account holds that meal size is settled during the meal, by the physiological and psychological processes that produce…
- Buchanan (2025): Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Buchanan and colleagues address a gap that has sat underneath fifty years of work on how one word speeds recognition of a related word. The effect is foundational to theories of how meaning is…
- Burger (2017): Cognitive consequences of formal clothing: the effects of clothing versus thinking of clothing
Two preregistered studies; pooled Study 1 supports a positive correlation with abstraction, compatible with a route through subjective social status and power; Study 2 no evidence.
- Burke (2006): Group versus individual approach? A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of interventions to promote physical activity
Burke and colleagues compared the settings in which physical activity programmes are delivered, pooling forty-four studies and more than two hundred comparisons across five outcomes: whether people…
- Burns (2019): An old task in new clothes: a preregistered direct replication attempt of enclothed cognition effects on Stroop performance
Equivalence testing and small telescopes; effect too small to have been reliably detected under the original design; sequential effects as small as 7 ms detected.
- Busse (2015): The psychological effect of weather on car purchases
More than 40 million vehicle transactions; the choice of a convertible or a four-wheel drive highly dependent on weather at the time of purchase, inconsistent with classical utility theory; rational…
- Buttrick (2019): Cross-cultural consistency and relativity in the enjoyment of thinking versus doing
Nicholas Buttrick and colleagues, with Timothy Wilson and Daniel Gilbert among the authors, repeated the 2014 thinking-for-pleasure study with 2,557 participants at twelve sites in eleven countries…
- Buyalskaya (2023): What can machine learning teach us about habit formation? Evidence from exercise and hygiene
30,110 gym members, over 12 million observations; 3,124 caregivers, over 40 million observations; median time to habit formation 4 to 7 months for the gym and 9 to 10 shifts for handwashing; time…
- Camerer (2016): Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in economics
Camerer and colleagues repeated eighteen laboratory experiments published in the two leading economics journals between 2011 and 2014. The methodology matters as much as the result: every…
- Camerer (2018): Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015
Camerer and colleagues took twenty-one social science experiments published in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015, the most visible journals in the field, and tried to repeat them properly…
- Capen (1971): Competitive bidding in high-risk situations
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Carney (2006): Effects of a Structured Problem-Solving Procedure on Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal in College Students With Insomnia
Carney and Waters tested a small intervention against the particular problem of a racing mind at bedtime. Students reporting insomnia spent five nights either writing down their worries along with…
- Carney (2012): First is best
Three experiments; implicit preference for first salesperson and first team; first of two consumer items more likely chosen; held for an evaluatively negative target (a criminal); notes previous…
- Carroll (2009): Optimal defaults and active decisions
Carroll, Choi, Laibson, Madrian and Metrick identify an alternative to defaults that the popular literature almost never mentions: requiring people to make an explicit choice for themselves…
- Carruth (2023): Does willpower mindset really moderate the ego-depletion effect? A preregistered replication of Job, Dweck, and Walton
Carruth, Ramos and Miyake ran a preregistered replication of Job, Dweck and Walton's influential 2010 finding that ego depletion occurs only in people who believe willpower is a limited resource…
- Carter (2014): Publication bias and the limited strength model of self-control: has the evidence for ego depletion been overestimated?
Carter and McCullough reanalysed the data from the large ego depletion meta-analysis using methods designed to detect and correct for small-study effects, the pattern that appears when small studies…
- Castelo (2019): Task-dependent algorithm aversion
Algorithms trusted less for subjective than objective tasks; raising perceived objectivity and affective humanlikeness increases reliance; four online lab studies (over 1,400 participants) and two…
- Castro (2014): Opioid Hedonic Hotspot in Nucleus Accumbens Shell: Mu, Delta, and Kappa Maps for Enhancement of Sweetness Liking and Wanting
Castro and Berridge extended the hedonic hotspot work by testing all three major opioid receptor types rather than one, mapping where stimulating each changed how much rats appeared to enjoy a sweet…
- Cesario (2014): Priming, Replication, and the Hardest Science
Cesario's paper is a defence of priming research against the way failed replications were being interpreted, and it is worth reading precisely because it concedes a great deal. His argument is that…