Studies (page 53)

Kahneman, D., Sibony, O., & Sunstein, C. R. (2021). Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. London: William Collins. [SEED BOOK, read in full by this vault; NOT A STUDY.] USE IT FOR the error identity, the…

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Slava Kalyuga, Paul Ayres, Paul Chandler and John Sweller review the expertise reversal effect. New information must be processed in a working memory of severe limits, and learning eases the…

Kamau replicates the Aronson and Mills experiment on severe initiation and adds a role for rewards. Seventy participants underwent either a severe or a mild initiation, and about half then received…

Kim Kamin and Jeffrey Rachlinski compared three conditions: foresight, hindsight and a hindsight condition meant to reduce the bias. Participants judged whether a municipality should take, or should…

Heather Kappes and Gabriele Oettingen ran four experiments in which positive fantasies about a desired future were induced and not merely measured. Participants who imagined an idealised future…

Karapınar Çelik, Eru and Çop investigate how a tendency toward fear of missing out affects impulse buying and post-purchase regret, and how impulse buying affects regret. They note that people spend…

Karau and Williams carried out a meta-analysis of 78 studies of social loafing, the tendency to put in less effort when working collectively than when working individually. They conclude that social…

conversations with strangers felt less awkward and created more connectedness and happiness than expected; participants especially overestimated the awkwardness of deep conversations and expected…

Ten authors (Kardefelt-Winther, Heeren, Schimmenti, van Rooij, Maurage, Carras, Edman, Blaszczynski, Khazaal and Billieux) noted that after DSM-5 revised its addictive disorders category, research…

Raghavendra Katikalapudi and colleagues at Missouri University of Science and Technology ask whether the way a student uses the internet differs with depressive symptoms. They screened 216…

Keaveney reports an exploratory critical incident study of customer switching in service industries. She opens from the observation that switching harms the market share and profitability of service…

Keller presents a consumer-level model of brand equity, defined as the difference in how consumers respond to a brand's marketing compared with an unnamed version of the same product. Brand…

Keller's paper is the sharpest published challenge to attachment theory's claim to universality. Her argument is that the theory describes one cultural strategy for raising children, in which the…

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Kemp and colleagues tested whether the peak-end rule holds for experiences that last days rather than minutes. Forty-nine students on holidays averaging a week sent daily text messages reporting how…

Kendzierski's study is an early demonstration that how people categorise themselves predicts what they do. She sorted participants into three groups by whether being an exerciser was part of their…

This paper extends the exercise self-schema work from the author's earlier study, which had shown that people who consider being an exerciser part of who they are exercise more, plan more and keep…

Kent and Allen varied the familiarity of featured and competing brands in a factorial experiment, controlling for execution, prior exposure, processing goals and exposure time. Familiar brands…