Studies (page 63)

Loewenstein and Prelec report that two assumptions of standard intertemporal choice models, impatience and additive separability, fail when choices are framed as explicit sequences; with the…

Loewenstein, Psychological Bulletin 116(1), 1994, 75-98. A review and reinterpretation of curiosity; the information gap account holds that curiosity arises when attention is drawn to a gap between…

This entry covers the body of work on reconstructive memory and the misinformation effect: the finding that memory is not a recording that can be played back, but an account rebuilt each time it is…

Logg, J. M., Minson, J. A., & Moore, D. A. (2019). 'Algorithm appreciation: People prefer algorithmic to human judgment.' Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 151, 90-103…

Logg and Schlund propose that research documenting algorithm aversion and research documenting algorithm appreciation can be reconciled by looking at elicitation methods. When making judgments…

[abstract read 2026-10-19] Lohre, E., & Halkjelsvik, T. (2024). 'Advice taking when the stakes are high: Evidence from a game show.' Judgment and Decision Making, 19, e25. doi:10.1017/jdm.2024.4…

Nine studies; uniqueness neglect; stronger for people who see themselves as more unique; curbed when care is personalised or AI only supports a human provider.

Lopes, Alves and Brito review research on why customers end relationships with suppliers and how the process unfolds. In discussing Keaveney's large study across service industries they list eight…

This is a pre-registered replication of the bottomless soup bowl experiment, in which a bowl refills slowly and invisibly as the diner eats. The original is one of the most repeated demonstrations…

Lord, Ross and Lepper had people with strong opinions for or against the death penalty read descriptions of two studies on whether it deters crime, one appearing to support each participant's view…

Lorenz and colleagues tested whether social influence weakens the wisdom of crowds, the idea that the average of many estimates can beat individual experts. Participants answered factual estimation…

Across longitudinal datasets from several domains, covering multiple decades, the authors find steeper gradients and shorter periods in how cultural items gain collective attention, driven by…

Loui and colleagues test an evolutionary claim about music as affective communication by comparing a special population against normal variation. They examine white matter connectivity in BW, a case…

Louro, Pieters and Zeelenberg's 2007 paper develops a model of how people allocate effort across several goals. Whether a person increases effort, eases off, abandons a goal or switches depends on…

[abstract only; full text not retrieved, 2026-10-20] Lovoll, H. S., & Vittersoe, J. (2014). 'Can Balance be Boring? A Critique of the "Challenges Should Match Skills" Hypotheses in Flow Theory.'…

forced preload of no milkshake, one or two, before an ice-cream taste test; restrained eaters counter-regulated.

65 studies, 101 independent effects, 3,189 groups. Groups mentioned two standard deviations more pieces of common information than unique information; hidden-profile groups were eight times less…

Luca first author. Two datasets were used to study review fraud: restaurant reviews that the platform's own filtering algorithm flagged as suspicious, and businesses caught soliciting fake reviews…

Luca, sole author of a working paper never published in a peer-reviewed journal. Restaurant ratings were matched to state revenue data, with a regression discontinuity on the displayed rounded…

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System waves 2005 to 2009; 1,071,290 respondents in the primary analyses; most weather conditions unrelated to life satisfaction; significant effects very small…