Studies (page 64)
- Luchs (2010): The Sustainability Liability: Potential Negative Effects of Ethicality on Product Preference
Luchs, Naylor, Irwin and Raghunathan propose that sustainability is not always an asset for a product, even if most consumers care about social and environmental issues. How much it raises…
- Luffarelli (2019): Let the logo do the talking: The influence of logo descriptiveness on brand equity
Luffarelli, Mukesh and Mahmood report six studies in which more descriptive logos improved consumer evaluations, purchase intentions and business performance. They attribute the effect to processing…
- Luguri (2021): Shining a Light on Dark Patterns
Luguri and Strahilevitz report what the paper describes as the first public experimental evidence on dark patterns, meaning interfaces whose designers knowingly confuse people, make it hard for them…
- Lukac (2025): Ambient AI scribes in clinical practice: a randomized trial
238 outpatient physicians, 14 specialties; Nabla reduced time-in-note by 9.5 per cent against control; DAX no significant change; clinically significant inaccuracies noted 'occasionally'.
- Luo (2023): A meta-analytic cognitive framework of nudge and sludge
Luo, Y., Li, A., Soman, D., & Zhao, J. (2023). 'A meta-analytic cognitive framework of nudge and sludge.' Royal Society Open Science, 10(11), 230053. doi:10.1098/rsos.230053. This is the…
- Lurie (2021): Photo-taking impairs memory on perceptual and conceptual memory tests
[NOT READ IN THE ORIGINAL. Bibliographic record and secondary quotation only; the OSF dataset is at osf.io/pq23c and was not examined either] Lurie, R. E., & Westerman, D. L. (2021). 'Photo-taking…
- Lynn (2000): Gratitude and gratuity: a meta-analysis of research on the service-tipping relationship
Lynn and McCall, The Journal of Socio-Economics 29(2), 2000, 203-214. Pooled seven published and six unpublished studies covering 2,547 dining parties at 20 restaurants. Positive, statistically…
- Lyons (2007): The use of travel time by rail passengers in Great Britain
Lyons, Jain and Holley examine the idea that travel time can have positive value instead of being wasted, which questions the assumed economic benefits of schemes that cut journey times. The paper…
- Lyons (2017): Evoking premiumness: How color-product congruency influences premium evaluations
Lyons and Wien tested how congruence or incongruence between package colour and a marketing message affects premium evaluations of food. In two between-subjects experiments using red and green…
- Ma (2019): Recycle more, waste more? When recycling efforts increase resource consumption
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL via the Semantic Scholar graph API record for the DOI; full text not read] Ma, B., Li, X., Jiang, Z., & Jiang, J. (2019). 'Recycle more, waste more? When recycling efforts…
- Ma (2020): Transparent Windows on Food Packaging Do Not Always Capture Attention and Increase Purchase Intention
Ma, Zhuang and Ma compared transparent windows and graphic windows of the same size on packaged foods. College students viewed nuts, preserved fruits and instant cereals on a computer screen while…
- Ma (2025): Words that trigger: a meta-analysis of threatening language, reactance, and persuasion in health
Ma first author, and Rong Ma and Zexin Ma are two different authors. A meta-analysis of 35 studies and 10,658 participants consolidated the links between freedom-threatening language, perceived…
- MacBeth (2012): Exploring compassion: A meta-analysis of the association between self-compassion and psychopathology
MacBeth and Gumley produced the first systematic review of the relationship between self-compassion and mental health, combining twenty samples from fourteen studies, all of which used the same…
- Macchi (2021): Numbers do not add up! The pragmatic approach to the framing of medical treatments
Laura Macchi and Edoardo Zulato re-examine the medical framing problem introduced by McNeil and colleagues, in which people often favoured surgery more in a survival frame than in a mortality frame…
- MacCoon (2014): No Sustained Attention Differences in a Longitudinal Randomized Trial Comparing Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction versus Active Control
MacCoon and colleagues used a visual continuous performance task to test the effects of eight weeks of mindfulness training on sustained attention. They compared Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction…
- MacDonald (2020): Social and psychological determinants of consumption: Evidence for the lipstick effect during the Great Recession
MacDonald and Dildar use the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey to test the lipstick effect in the Great Recession. They find that cosmetics spending rose significantly among…
- Mack (1998): Inattentional Blindness
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- MacKenzie (1992): Fitts' law as a research and design tool in human-computer interaction
MacKenzie places Fitts's law in its historical and theoretical context and examines problems that arise when observations keep departing from its predictions. He proposes a revised index of task…
- Macnamara (2014): Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis
Brooke Macnamara, David Hambrick and Frederick Oswald pooled 88 studies of deliberate practice and performance. Practice explained a modest share of the differences in performance overall, with the…
- Macnamara (2019): The role of deliberate practice in expert performance: revisiting Ericsson, Krampe & Tesch-Römer
Brooke Macnamara and a colleague replicated the 1993 violin study with 39 students in three groups, using a double-blind procedure and analyses suited to the design. Accumulated practice alone…