Studies (page 51)
- Jarrett (2010): Feeling like a fraud
Jarrett describes the impostor phenomenon, feeling like a fraud, which is surprisingly common in some walks of life, particularly the arts, science and academia. The term was first used by Pauline…
- Jedidi (1999): Managing Advertising and Promotion for Long-Run Profitability
Kamel Jedidi, Carl Mela and Sunil Gupta ask whether advertising or promotion is more desirable for a brand, whether frequent shallow or infrequent deep promotions work better, and how regular price…
- Jenkins (1998): Are financial incentives related to performance? A meta-analytic review of empirical research
[NOT READ; headline findings from search-reported abstract text and from the explicit restatement in Kim, Gerhart and Fang 2022] Jenkins, G. D., Mitra, A., Gupta, N., & Shaw, J. D. (1998). 'Are…
- Jensen (2008): Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption
Jensen and Miller provide what they describe as the first real-world evidence of Giffen behaviour, meaning upward-sloping demand. They subsidised the prices of dietary staples for very poor…
- Jersild (1927): Mental set and shift
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Ji (2007): Purchase and consumption habits: Not necessarily what you intend
Mindy Ji and Wendy Wood tested whether habit or stated intention better predicts everyday purchase and consumption. Their abstract proposes that repeated purchases made in familiar places become…
- Jiang (2007): Investigating the influence of the functional mechanisms of online product presentations
Jiang and Benbasat propose that vividness and interactivity shape consumers' intentions to revisit a site and buy products shown there. A study largely supported the model. Perceived diagnosticity…
- Jiang (2016): Does your company have the right logo? How and why circular- and angular-logo shapes influence brand attribute judgments
Jiang, Gorn, Galli and Chattopadhyay report five experiments testing whether a circular or angular logo shape changes perceptions of a product's or company's attributes. They propose that circular…
- Jin (2009): Self-interruption on the computer: a typology of discretionary task interleaving
Jin and Dabbish note that the typical information worker is interrupted often and about half the time interrupts themselves, while most research has addressed external interruptions. They report a…
- Job (2010): Ego Depletion,Is It All in Your Head?
Job, Dweck and Walton proposed that ego depletion depends on what a person believes about willpower. Across four studies they reported that individual differences in lay theories moderated the…
- Johanson (2026): Watching to win: When watching others play improves performance
Johanson, Wessels and Friehs, Entertainment Computing 56, 2026. Two controlled studies using an obstacle-dodging game clone. Study 1: 23 participants in player-observer pairs. Study 2: 69…
- Johari (2015): Always valid inference: bringing sequential analysis to A/B testing
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Johnson (2003): Do Defaults Save Lives?
Johnson and Goldstein's policy forum is the piece that carried the default effect out of economics and into public life. Using a combination of national data and experiments, they examine what the…
- Johnson (2013): Gender differences in rumination: A meta-analysis
Johnson and Whisman meta-analysed fifty-nine studies, covering more than fourteen thousand adults, on whether women ruminate more than men. The question matters because the leading theory of why…
- Johnson (2015): Spoiler alert
Johnson and Rosenbaum, Communication Research 42(8), 2015 (online December 2014), 1068-1088. A within-subjects experiment with 412 participants testing whether spoilers enhance narrative enjoyment…
- Jolly (2019): Wanting without enjoying: The social value of sharing experiences
Jolly, Tamir, Burum and Mitchell report across seven experiments in three studies that participants were strongly motivated to engage in shared experiences, that the motivation did not come with a…
- Jonas (2009): universal
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Jonason (2010): The Dirty Dozen: A concise measure of the Dark Triad
Jonason and Webster develop and validate a concise twelve-item measure of the Dark Triad of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. In four studies with over one thousand participants they…
- Jonauskaite (2019): Pink for girls, red for boys, and blue for both genders: Colour preferences in children and adults
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Jonauskaite (2020): Feeling blue or seeing red? Similar patterns of emotion associations with colour patches and colour terms
Jonauskaite, Parraga, Quiblier and Mohr had participants rate 20 concepts on valence, arousal and power for 12 colours shown as patches (54 people) or as terms (78 people). Concept-specific patterns…