Studies (page 43)

Hamari and Sjöblom, Internet Research 27(2), 2017. Online survey late February to late March 2015, 888 usable responses, mostly from eSports subreddits, 825 men and 63 women, mean age about 22.75…

Hamermesh and Biddle develop a theory of how workers sort into occupations by appearance and use it to test whether looks affect earnings, using three surveys that include interviewers' ratings of…

David Hammond reviewed 94 studies of health warnings on tobacco products. Larger warnings with pictures were significantly more effective than smaller, text-only messages, and pictorial warnings…

Han, Nunes and Dreze introduce brand prominence, the conspicuousness of a brand's mark on a product, and sort consumers into four groups by wealth and need for status. Each group's preference for…

Hanich, Wagner, Shah, Jacobsen and Menninghaus: in a cinema, 76 participants watched 38 clips of a character or group learning of a death; sadness and enjoyment were strongly positively correlated…

Formal or casual dress; trait self-descriptions and response times.

Paul Hanselman, Christopher Rozek, Jeffrey Grigg and Geoffrey Borman ran a well-powered replication of a school self-affirmation intervention in a setting where an earlier large-scale field…

Across four experiments, Hansen and Wanke found that identical statements were rated as more likely to be true when phrased concretely than abstractly, with greater perceived vividness as one…

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Hanus and Fox compared two university courses across a 16-week semester, surveying 71 students at four points. One course used a gamified curriculum with a leaderboard and badges, and the other…

Guðmundur Haraldsson and Jack Kellam describe two large trials of a shorter working week in Iceland between 2015 and 2019, with no reduction in pay. The report says productivity and service…

William Harbaugh, Kate Krause and Lise Vesterlund examine whether the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes survives a change in how preferences are measured. When participants set prices for gambles…

Hardisty and Weber note that consumers generally prefer positive experiences immediately and often prefer to delay negative ones. Across three studies and a dozen supplemental studies they find that…

16 physically active males, Bangor University, crossover design; 10 km time trial faster with second-person self-talk, greater power output, similar RPE.

A meta-analysis led by B. Harkin of 138 studies with 19,951 participants. Interventions that increased monitoring of goal progress improved goal attainment. Effects were larger when progress was…

Harkins and Jackson ran a brainstorming task in four-person groups and varied whether members' performances could be compared with their co-workers' performances. Crossed with this, each…

Harrar and Spence report three experiments on whether the cutlery you eat with changes the taste of the food, varying weight, size, colour and shape independently. Yoghurt was perceived as denser…

Harris and Hahn challenge the reading that people who judge negative events as less likely for themselves than for the average person are unrealistically optimistic. They argue that unbiased…

Harris, Regan, Schueler and Fields reviewed 78 scales developed over 13 years to measure excessive or problematic smartphone use, assessing theoretical foundations and psychometric properties. Many…

Harris, Allen, Vine and Wilson combined 22 studies from 20 articles, 13 in sport and 9 in gaming, with 2,462 participants in the meta-analysis. The pooled correlation between flow and performance…