Studies (page 5)

Chabris and colleagues attempted to replicate both of the physical warmth experiments, the coffee cup and the therapeutic pad, and their write-up is as much about method as about the result. They…

Published 2 July 2026; Chung-Ang University; 200 US adults on Amazon Mechanical Turk; 2 (AI vs human model label) x 2 (dress vs T-shirt) between-subjects scenario experiment; identical images, all…

Shadowing with two messages; listeners detected a male-to-female voice change in the rejected ear but could not identify words; on a switch to German one listener assumed English; the paper uses the…

Chioveanu and Zhou model identical sellers of a homogeneous product competing in both prices and price frames, meaning the ways in which price information is presented. Frame choices affect how…

No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.

A review article by Luana Colloca and Arthur Barsky in the New England Journal of Medicine treating placebo and nocebo effects together. It is cited on this site as background to nocebo, not for any…

This is a regulator's document rather than research. Following an investigation into the sale of tickets for the Oasis reunion, the Competition and Markets Authority secured undertakings from the…

Catalogue orders of cold-weather items; evidence of projection bias over the weather; 'if the order-date temperature declines by 30 degrees F, the return probability increases by 3.95 percent.'.

40 undergraduates, 20 high-span and 20 low-span; 65 per cent of low-span and 20 per cent of high-span detected their name.

Cook and colleagues took the rumination-focused therapy out of the clinic and tested it as prevention rather than treatment. More than two hundred university students who were not depressed but…

Many Labs 5 tested the most common defence offered when a replication fails, that the replication was badly designed. The team selected ten studies from an earlier large replication project for…

Alia Crum and Ellen Langer studied 84 women who cleaned rooms in seven hotels. Hotels, not individuals, were assigned: in some, housekeepers were told their work was good exercise and met…

Alia Crum and colleagues gave participants the same 380-calorie milkshake on two occasions, labelled once as a 620-calorie indulgent shake and once as a 140-calorie sensible one, and measured…

Cummings and colleagues tracked the hormone ghrelin in ten healthy people fed on a fixed schedule, sampling their blood thirty-eight times across a full day. The pattern is the finding. Ghrelin rose…

Dang and colleagues ran a second multi-laboratory replication of ego depletion, using a different pair of tasks from the first one, following a pre-registered experiment that had reported a…

Darley and Latane's experiment is the origin of the bystander effect as a demonstrated finding rather than a story. Participants sat alone in a room communicating over an intercom and overheard…

This short paper by Dawkins and Carlisle is the origin of the phrase Concorde fallacy, and its argument is the opposite of how the phrase is usually used. They were addressing a claim in animal…

Study 1, 240 students, hypothetical choices; Study 2, Tel Aviv café, 951 orders over 15 days, 20 of about 60 items reordered in three categories; items at beginning or end up to twice as popular as…

de Langhe, Fernbach and Lichtenstein document a disconnect between the objective quality information online user ratings convey and the extent to which consumers trust them. Analysing 1,272 products…

A meta-analysis led by Celso Augusto de Matos of the service recovery paradox. The cumulative effect was significant and positive on satisfaction, but nonsignificant on repurchase intentions, word…