Studies (page 67)
- Marlow (2025): The Ikigai Way: A Simple Path for Living a Life of Purpose
[SEED BOOK, NOT A STUDY. READ IN FULL by the vault on 2026-10-21 from 125 photographed spreads covering the whole book, against an OCR transcript of 73,348 words, distilled into eight digests]…
- Marotta (2018): Interrupting Interruptions: A Digital Experiment on Social Media and Performance
[NOT A PEER-REVIEWED STUDY. An SSRN working paper, still unpublished eight years on. ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE at the SSRN landing page; THE 40-PAGE PDF WAS NOT OPENED, so nothing beyond the…
- Marsh (2018): When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect
This is the paper that goes after the mechanism behind Norton's IKEA effect, and it should be read with that paper rather than as a second confirmation of it. Marsh, with Patricia Kanngiesser and…
- Martin (2025): Births in the United States, 2024
Martin, Hamilton and Osterman present highlights from final United States birth data for two thousand and twenty-four, using the natality file of the National Vital Statistics System, which is based…
- Marwick (2008): To catch a predator? The MySpace moral panic
Marwick discusses moral panics over contemporary technology, which she calls technopanics. She compares the cyberporn panic of nineteen ninety-six with the later panic over online predators and…
- Mas-Herrero (2014): Dissociation between Musical and Monetary Reward Responses in Specific Musical Anhedonia
Mas-Herrero, Zatorre, Rodriguez-Fornells and Marco-Pallares documented specific musical anhedonia, and the paper's title states the finding: a dissociation between musical and monetary reward…
- Masicampo (2011): Consider it done! Plan making can eliminate the cognitive effects of unfulfilled goals
Masicampo and Baumeister, at Florida State University, asked students to write about unfinished tasks. In the first study, with 69 undergraduates, mind-wandering during a later reading task was…
- Mason (2007): Wandering minds: the default network and stimulus-independent thought
Malia Mason and five colleagues combine thought sampling with brain imaging to ask what supports the mind's tendency to wander. They report that mind-wandering is associated with activity in a…
- Mathur (2019): Dark patterns at scale: findings from a crawl of 11K shopping websites
Arunesh Mathur and colleagues crawled about 53,000 product pages from about 11,000 shopping websites and found 1,818 instances of dark patterns in 15 types and 7 broader categories. They identified…
- Mathur (2021): What makes a dark pattern... dark? Design attributes, normative considerations, and measurement methods
Arunesh Mathur, Mihir Kshirsagar and Jonathan Mayer begin from the observation that research on dark patterns, interface designs that scholars consider problematic and that are common in shopping…
- Matz (2017): Psychological targeting as an effective approach to digital mass persuasion
Matz, Kosinski, Nave and Stillwell start from laboratory evidence that persuasive appeals work better when tailored to people's psychological characteristics. Real-world study of large-scale…
- Matz (2018): Reply to Eckles et al.: Facebook
Matz, Kosinski, Nave and Stillwell reply to a comment by Eckles and colleagues. The commenters point out that the optimisation algorithms of Facebook's advertising platform are a potential confound…
- Matz (2018): Reply to Sharp et al.: Psychological targeting produces robust effects
Matz, Kosinski, Nave and Stillwell reply to a comment by Sharp and colleagues, who suggested that the original findings refute the effectiveness of psychological targeting. The authors disagree…
- Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic, patient guidance on reactive hypoglycaemia: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/expert-answers/reactive-hypoglycemia/faq-20057778. Cited for the clinical boundary only
This is clinical patient guidance rather than research, and the citation itself records why it is here: it marks a boundary. An article dealing with hunger and blood sugar needed to distinguish the…
- Mayzlin (2014): Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation
Mayzlin first author, not Chevalier. A difference-in-differences across two travel platforms, one allowing reviews only from customers who had booked through it and one open to anyone, tested the…
- Mazar (2017): When Retailing and Las Vegas Meet: Probabilistic Free Price Promotions
Nina Mazar, Kristina Shampanier and Dan Ariely compared lottery-type promotions, offering a chance of receiving an entire purchase for free, with sure price promotions of equal expected monetary…
- Mazar (2022): Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior
[full text read at source, in sections] Mazar, A., & Wood, W. (2022). 'Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior.' Psychological Science, 33(4), 563-578…
- Mazor (2021): The Dunning-Kruger effect revisited
Mazor and Fleming comment on a rational model of the Dunning-Kruger effect. They explain that regression to the mean can arise inside a single rational observer, who pulls surprising results towards…
- Mazumdar (2005): Reference price research: Review and propositions
Mazumdar, Raj and Sinha review behavioural and modelling research on reference prices and propose an integrative framework covering how reference prices form, how they are retrieved and used, and…
- McAlexander (2002): Building Brand Community
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL at the Crossref item record. FULL TEXT NOT READ: Unpaywall records oa_status 'closed' with no repository copy anywhere] McAlexander, J. H., Schouten, J. W., & Koenig, H. F…