Studies (page 59)
- Larrick (1990): Teaching the Use of Cost-Benefit Reasoning in Everyday Life
Larrick, Morgan and Nisbett tested whether the cost-benefit rules of economics transfer to ordinary life, and whether they can be taught. Two groups were examined: people with extensive formal…
- Larrick (2006): Intuitions about combining opinions: Misappreciation of the averaging principle
[abstract only; full text not retrieved, 2026-10-19] Larrick, R. P., & Soll, J. B. (2006). 'Intuitions about combining opinions: Misappreciation of the averaging principle.' Management Science…
- Larrick (2008): The MPG illusion
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Larzelere (2005): Comparing child outcomes of physical punishment and alternative disciplinary tactics: a meta-analysis
26 studies; conditional spanking favoured over 10 of 13 alternative tactics for reducing noncompliance or antisocial behaviour; customary physical punishment equal to alternatives except one large…
- Latané (1968): Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Latané (1979): Many hands make light the work: The causes and consequences of social loafing
Latané, Williams and Harkins report two experiments in which people performing physically exerting tasks, such as clapping and shouting, put in much less individual effort when working in groups…
- Laughlin (2006): Groups perform better than the best individuals on letters-to-numbers problems: Effects of group size
Laughlin and colleagues had individuals and groups of two to five people solve letters-to-numbers problems, in which participants identify the coding of ten letters to ten numbers by proposing…
- Laukkonen (2022): Irrelevant insights make worldviews ring true
Laukkonen, Kaveladze, Protzko, Tangen, von Hippel and Schooler: experiment 1 (3,000 participants, with a direct replication) found a worldview statement rated as truer when participants also solved…
- Law (2000): I’ll have what she’s having: gauging the impact of product placements on viewers
Shu Law and Kathryn Braun studied product placements in television programmes. In the abstract's words, the results showed an overall enhancement in product recall, recognition and choice due to…
- Lawler (2012): Netflix launches Post-Play, so you never have to interrupt TV or movie marathons
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Lazarevic (2025): Collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can pro-environmental behavior be promoted by priming status motivation?
Lazarevic and colleagues report a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius and colleagues' 2010 study on whether pro-environmental behaviour can be promoted by priming status motivation…
- Lazear (2000): Performance Pay and Productivity
[abstract only; full text not retrieved. The published abstract and the NBER working-paper abstract were both read, and the two figures must not be mixed] Lazear, E. P. (2000). 'Performance Pay and…
- Le Bon (1895): Psychologie des foules
The record for Gustave Le Bon's book, published in French in eighteen ninety-five, says that its ideas seemed paradoxical at the time. It became a classic, translated into many languages, still read…
- Le Texier (2019): Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment
Le Texier reports a study of the Stanford Prison Experiment archives and interviews with 15 of its participants, and argues that the data question the experiment's scientific merit. The paper…
- Leach (2008): Group-level self-definition and self-investment: A hierarchical (multicomponent) model of in-group identification
Leach and colleagues note that in-group identification is psychologically important and socially consequential but that there is little agreement on how to conceptualise or measure it. They identify…
- Leary (1995): Self-esteem as an interpersonal monitor: The sociometer hypothesis.
Leary, Tambor, Terdal and Downs report five studies testing the sociometer model, in which self-esteem monitors others' reactions and alerts the person to possible exclusion. State self-esteem…
- Leary (2007): Self-compassion and reactions to unpleasant self-relevant events: The implications of treating oneself kindly
Leary and colleagues ran five studies on how self-compassionate people handle unpleasant events, using different methods each time: daily reports of real events, imagined scenarios, reactions to…
- Leary (2013): Construct Validity of the Need to Belong Scale: Mapping the Nomological Network
Leary, Kelly, Cottrell and Schreindorfer report nine studies on the construct validity of the Need to Belong Scale. Scores overlapped with extraversion and affiliation motivation but remained…
- Leavitt (2011): Story spoilers don't spoil stories
Leavitt and Christenfeld gave participants short stories, some as originals, some preceded by a paragraph revealing the ending, and some edited so the ending was obvious. Participants enjoyed the…
- Lebowitz (2020): Parent-based treatment as efficacious as cognitive-behavioral therapy for childhood anxiety: a randomized noninferiority study of Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
124 children aged 7 to 14 with primary anxiety disorders; SPACE, a parent-only treatment that reduces accommodation, was noninferior to child CBT; greater reduction in family accommodation after…