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- Kotera (2021): Health Benefits of Ikigai: A Review of Literature
[NOT A JOURNAL ARTICLE, a book chapter. THE ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE at the University of Derby repository record, which prints it entire. THE CHAPTER ITSELF WAS NOT READ: the Derby…
- Kotler (2014): Flow States and Creativity
[blog page read in full at source; not a study] Kotler, S. (2014). 'Flow States and Creativity.' Psychology Today, The Playing Field blog, 25 February 2014. the step at which five times becomes five…
- Kowalski (2021): Dark triads, tetrads, tents, and cores: Why navigate (research) the jungle of dark personality models without a compass (criterion)?
Christopher Kowalski, Radosław Rogoza, Donald Saklofske and Julie Schermer review the dark triad literature and the wider field of dark personality traits as a primer on its unresolved issues. They…
- Kral (2022): Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials
Tammi Kral and colleagues noted that many widely cited studies claim the eight-week mindfulness-based stress reduction course changes brain structure, but that those studies have significant…
- Kramer (1998): Revisiting the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam decisions 25 years later: How well has the groupthink hypothesis stood the test of time?
Roderick Kramer revisited Janis's groupthink hypothesis, which was built largely on case studies of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the escalation of the Vietnam War. Drawing on newer sources…
- Kramer (2014): Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
Adam Kramer, Jamie Guillory and Jeffrey Hancock reported an experiment on 689,003 Facebook users in which the emotional content of the News Feed was altered. The authors concluded that emotional…
- Krause (2020): Can bad be good? The attraction of a darker self
Krause and Rucker analysed records from an online character-quiz site (about 232,000 registered users) and found people preferred villains who resembled them, then ran five laboratory experiments…
- Kravitz (1986): Ringelmann rediscovered: The original article
Kravitz and Martin located Ringelmann's original report, which theory and research on group effort had long credited through a 1927 citation to Moede. Ringelmann, a French agricultural engineer…
- Kremer (2007): The Illusion of Sustainability
Michael Kremer and Edward Miguel used a randomised evaluation of a Kenyan deworming programme to estimate peer effects in technology adoption and to examine donors' move towards sustainable…
- Kremer (2016): Inferring quality from wait time
Kremer and Debo examine how waiting time affects purchasing when some consumers know a product's quality and others do not. Because informed consumers are present, waiting times signal quality to…
- Kritz (2026): Individual versus group-based interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of physical activity, functional, psychosocial and health outcomes
Kritz and colleagues updated an earlier review that had found real groups, meaning programmes built deliberately on group dynamics, outperformed individual approaches to physical activity. With…
- Kritz, M., Riddell, H., Olsen, D., Harden, S. M., Burke, S.: Kritz, M., Riddell, H., Olsen, D., Harden, S. M., Burke, S. M., Ntoumanis, N. & Thøgersen-Ntoumani, C
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Krizan (2007): The influence of outcome desirability on optimism
Krizan and Windschitl review the idea of a desirability bias, in which people become overly optimistic about an outcome because they want it. They describe the idea as widely accepted with limited…
- Krol (2019): Inferiority, not similarity of the decoy to target, is what drives the transfer of attention underlying the attraction effect: Evidence from an eye-tracking study with real choices.
Krol and Krol address a specific problem in the decoy literature: recent studies had reported that the attraction effect fails to replicate when options are presented pictorially rather than as…
- Krongard (2018): Online original TV series: Examining portrayals of violence in popular binge-watched programs and social reality perceptions
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Kronrod (2012): Go Green! Should Environmental Messages be So Assertive?
Kronrod first author. Three laboratory studies and one field experiment using search advertising covered water saving, plastic recycling and air and sea pollution. How persuasive assertive language…
- Kross (2014): Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: How you do it matters
seven studies, total N = 585; Study 2, 97 undergraduate women, first-impression interaction with a confederate; Study 3, 89 undergraduates (45 first person, 44 non-first person), five minutes to…
- Kross (2014): Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: how you do it matters
Kross, E., Bruehlman-Senecal, E., Park, J., Burson, A., Dougherty, A., Shablack, H., Bremner, R., Moser, J. & Ayduk, O. (2014). "Self-talk as a regulatory mechanism: how you do it matters." Journal…
- Krueger (1994): The truly false consensus effect: An ineradicable and egocentric bias in social perception
Krueger and Clement ran three experiments on the tendency to overuse knowledge about oneself when estimating how common traits or attitudes are in a population. In the first, participants estimated…
- Krueger (2002): Unskilled, unaware, or both? The better-than-average heuristic and statistical regression predict errors in estimates of own performance.
Krueger and Mueller take up the finding that people who score low on a performance test overestimate their performance relative to others, while high scorers slightly underestimate theirs. Kruger…