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- Hölzel (2011): Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density
Britta Hölzel and colleagues asked whether an eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction course changes grey matter in the brain. They scanned healthy adults with no meditation experience before…
- Homonoff (2018): Can small incentives have large effects? The impact of taxes versus bonuses on disposable bag use
Montgomery County, Maryland, tax from 1 January 2012; 16,251 customers in 16 stores; tax cut disposable bag use by over forty percentage points; bonus had virtually no effect; consistent with loss…
- Honolulu Star-Advertiser (2018): FCC final report on false missile alert cites human error and poor safeguards
This newspaper report summarises the Federal Communications Commission's final report on the false missile alert in Hawaii. It says the Commission attributed the primary error to the officer failing…
- Hood (2008): Children prefer certain individuals over perfect duplicates
Adults prize one-of-a-kind objects such as art, keepsakes and memorabilia over identical copies, and the authors tested whether young children do too, using a magic trick that appeared to duplicate…
- Hornsey (2004): The individual within the group: Balancing the need to belong with the need to be different
Matthew Hornsey and Jolanda Jetten review how people balance the need to belong to groups with the need to be different. Social identity theorists had traditionally treated differentiation of an…
- Horton (1956): Mass communication and para-social interaction: Observations on intimacy at a distance
Horton and Wohl introduced the term para-social interaction in a paper in Psychiatry whose subtitle describes observations on intimacy at a distance. The term names the one-sided sense of closeness…
- Horton (2025): Evaluating the evidence for enclothed cognition: z-curve and meta-analyses
105 effects, 40 studies, 24 articles, N = 3,789; concerns about replicability of early studies; evidential value for effects published after 2015.
- Hosoda (2003): The Effects of Physical Attractiveness on Job-Related Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Studies
Hosoda, Stone-Romero and Coats carried out a meta-analysis of experimental studies on whether physical attractiveness affects job-related outcomes. Attractive individuals fared better than…
- Hossain (2006): …Plus Shipping and Handling: Revenue (Non)Equivalence in Field Experiments on eBay
Hossain first author. Matched pairs of CDs and games were sold in a series of field experiments on an auction site. Contrary to theory, a high shipping charge with a low opening price drew more…
- Hotelling (1933): The Triumph of Mediocrity in Business.
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Houben (2026): Perceptual and conceptual generalization of learned food cue reactivity [Data set]. DataverseNL. doi:10.34894/pchgjk https://doi.org/10.34894/pchgjk
Houben, Schyns and Dibbets describe two preregistered studies in which participants learned to link one neutral stimulus with a chocolate sweet while a second stimulus was never paired with food…
- Howard (2021): Side Effect Patterns in a Crossover Trial of Statin, Placebo, and No Treatment
The full SAMSON report, led by James Howard. Sixty participants who had stopped statins were randomised and 49 completed the year. Average daily symptom scores were 8.0 with no tablet, 15.4 on…
- Hoyer (1990): Effects of brand awareness on choice for a common, repeat-purchase product
Hoyer and Brown ran a controlled experiment on a common, repeat-purchase product and found that brand awareness acted as a dominant heuristic in consumer choice. Subjects without brand awareness…
- Hoynes (2009): Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Hróbjartsson (2010): Placebo interventions for all clinical conditions
Hrobjartsson and Gotzsche reviewed randomised placebo trials that also had a no-treatment group, searching five databases through March 2008. Of 234 included trials, 202 had usable outcome data…
- Hsee (1991): Velocity relation: Satisfaction as a function of the first derivative of outcome over time
Hsee and Abelson propose that satisfaction depends on the rate of change of an outcome over time as well as its level; two studies using hypothetical outcomes supported the hypothesis. Journal of…
- Hsee (1998): Less is better: When low-value options are valued more highly than high-value options
Christopher Hsee showed that an option of lower value can be valued more highly than one of higher value when each is judged alone. In the dinnerware study, one set had 24 intact pieces and the…
- Hsee (2003): Medium Maximization
Christopher Hsee, Fang Yu, Jiao Zhang and Yan Zhang define a medium, such as points or money, as a token people earn as the immediate payoff for effort. It has no value in itself but can be…
- Hsee (2016): The Pandora effect: The power and peril of curiosity
Hsee and Ruan, Psychological Science 27(5), 2016, 659-666. Four controlled experiments find that curiosity led people to expose themselves to aversive stimuli, including electric shocks, with no…
- Hu (2009): Overcoming the J-shaped distribution of product reviews
Hu, Zhang and Pavlou report that product reviews from recent buyers are overwhelmingly positive. Using books, DVDs and videos at two large online retailers collected in 2005, they found that 72 to…