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Andrew Ehrenberg, Gerald Goodhardt and Patrick Barwise's formalisation of double jeopardy in the Journal of Marketing: smaller brands have fewer buyers, and those buyers are slightly less loyal. It…

This paper argues that repetitive negative thinking should be treated as a process that runs across disorders rather than as a symptom belonging to any one of them. The observation behind it is that…

Danit Ein-Gar, Baba Shiv and Zakary Tormala report four studies showing that a small negative detail can increase a product's appeal when people process information with little effort and the…

A meta-analysis led by Martin Eisend of 61 papers using 57 data sets on disclosing sponsored content. Disclosure reduced brand attitudes, credibility and evaluations of the source, and increased…

Elliot, Maier, Moller, Friedman and Meinhardt set out the case that red impairs performance on achievement tasks. The reasoning runs through context rather than through colour itself: in an…

Elliot and Niesta reported across five experiments that red, compared with other chromatic and achromatic colours, led men to view women as more attractive and more sexually desirable. Men appeared…

Elliot reviews a decade of research on colour and psychological functioning and spends most of the article on its weaknesses. He records that important advances have been made in both theoretical…

Englich, Mussweiler and Strack demonstrate that the sentencing decisions of experienced legal professionals are influenced by sentencing demands that are irrelevant and, in the strongest version…

This line comes from chapter five of the Enchiridion, the short handbook of Stoic advice compiled by Arrian from the teaching of Epictetus in the second century. The handbook deliberately avoids…

The Letter to Menoeceus is preserved in Diogenes Laertius's Lives of Eminent Philosophers, and it is the compact statement of Epicurus's ethics. Its argument is that pleasure is the highest good and…

Errington and colleagues report the Reproducibility Project in cancer biology, which repeated fifty experiments from twenty-three high-profile papers, covering a hundred and fifty-eight separate…

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Fanelli argues against the framing that has become standard in discussions of scientific reliability. The reproducibility crisis narrative holds that most published findings are unreliable and that…

Four experiments and one additional study; credit card cues increased the probability, speed or magnitude of spending; interpreted as conditioning.

Feitosa-Santana, Lutze, Barrionuevo and Cao approached the dress with standard clinical colour vision measures, since no existing colour vision theory fully accounted for the split. Fifty-two…

This is the meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of self-compassion interventions, and it matters because most of the self-compassion literature is correlational. Correlations between…

Ferreri and colleagues report the causal test that this literature otherwise lacks. Participants listened to music in three separate sessions, having been orally administered a dopamine precursor…

Festinger's 1954 paper proposes that people have a drive to evaluate their own opinions and abilities, and that this drive explains a great deal of social behaviour. His argument begins with why…

Filetti and colleagues asked whether a friend reduces stress or adds to it, and found that the answer depends on what the friend is doing there. Young parents reliably buffer a child's stress…