Studies (page 65)
- Macnamara (2023): A Spotlight on Bias in the Growth Mindset Intervention Literature: A Reply to Commentaries
Macnamara, B. N., & Burgoyne, A. P. (2023). 'A Spotlight on Bias in the Growth Mindset Intervention Literature: A Reply to Commentaries.' Psychological Bulletin, 149(3-4), 242-258…
- Macnamara (2023): Do Growth Mindset Interventions Impact Students
Macnamara, B. N., & Burgoyne, A. P. (2023). 'Do Growth Mindset Interventions Impact Students' Academic Achievement? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis With Recommendations for Best Practices.'…
- Macrae (2016): Noticing future me: Reducing egocentrism through mental imagery
Macrae and colleagues' 2016 paper asked whether the spotlight effect can be reduced. Across three experiments on a future-oriented version of the bias, imagining a far-future event reduced…
- Madden (2000): Managing Images in Different Cultures: A Cross-National Study of Color Meanings and Preferences
Madden, Hewett and Roth report an eight-country study of how consumers in different cultures interpret and prefer colours and colour combinations, finding both similar and differing meanings. When…
- Madden (2020): The effect on consent rates for deceased organ donation in Wales after the introduction of an opt‐out system
Madden and colleagues report the closest thing to a controlled test of an organ donation default. Wales introduced a soft opt-out system in December 2015 while England kept its opt-in system, which…
- Madhupindika Sutta: The Honey Cake (MN 18): Madhupindika Sutta: The Honey Cake (MN 18)
The Madhupindika Sutta, the eighteenth discourse of the Majjhima Nikaya, is cited here for its account of papanca, usually translated as conceptual proliferation. The passage traces a sequence…
- Madon (1997): In search of the powerful self-fulfilling prophecy
Madon, Jussim and Eccles examined moderators of naturally occurring self-fulfilling prophecies in 98 teachers and 1,539 sixth-grade mathematics pupils. Teacher perceptions predicted achievement much…
- Madrian (2001): The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior
Madrian and Shea analysed what happened to saving behaviour at one large company when it switched its retirement plan to automatic enrolment. They report two findings. Participation was…
- Mael (1992): Alumni and their alma mater: A partial test of the reformulated model of organizational identification
Mael and Ashforth define organizational identification as a sense of oneness with an organisation, in which its successes and failures are experienced as one's own. They test a proposed model with…
- Magata (2024): The effect of second-person self-talk on performance and motivation in Japanese individuals
411 undergraduates, four groups, anagram task; no significant differences in performance or intrinsic motivation.
- Magid (2001): ; archive page dated 2026-01-29. https://theasc.com/article/lord-of-the-rings-fellowship-of-the-rings-vfx/
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Magnini (2007): The service recovery paradox: justifiable theory or smoldering myth?
Role-play experiments led by Vincent Magnini found the service recovery paradox most likely when the failure was not severe, the customer had no prior failure with the firm, the cause seemed…
- Maguire (2000): Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers
Eleanor Maguire and colleagues used structural magnetic resonance imaging to compare the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of control participants who did not drive taxis. The…
- Maier (1976): Learned helplessness: Theory and evidence.
Steven Maier and Martin Seligman review the first decade of work on learned helplessness. The paper describes the 1967 dog experiments with escapable, yoked inescapable and unshocked groups, and the…
- Maier (2016): Learned helplessness at fifty: Insights from neuroscience.
Maier and Seligman state that the original theory got the direction backward. Passivity in response to prolonged aversive events is the default, unlearned response, mediated by serotonergic activity…
- Maier (2022): No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias
Maier and colleagues reanalyse the Mertens database with a Bayesian model-averaging method that corrects for publication bias. Across all studies the corrected average effect is 0.04 standard…
- Maier, M., Bartos, F., Stanley, T. D., Shanks, D. R., Harris: Maier, M., Bartos, F., Stanley, T. D., Shanks, D. R., Harris, A. J. L., & Wagenmakers, E.-J
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Main (1990): Attachment in the Preschool Years: Theory, Research, and Intervention (Greenberg, Cicchetti & Cummings, eds.), containing Main & Solomon
This is the chapter that introduced the disorganised classification to attachment research. The original Strange Situation procedure sorted infants into three patterns, and a proportion of children…
- Mairon (2020): Behavioral and EEG Measures Show no Amplifying Effects of Shared Attention on Attention or Memory
Mairon and colleagues tested a claim that had been gathering momentum, that experiencing something in the presence of another person attending to the same thing intensifies the experience…
- Maister (1985): The Psychology of Waiting Lines
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.