Studies (page 70)
- Miller (1956): The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Miller (1975): Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction?
Miller and Ross review the evidence on self-serving biases in causal attribution. They report little support for the idea in its broadest form: some evidence for self-enhancing attributions after…
- Miller (1987): Pluralistic ignorance: When similarity is interpreted as dissimilarity
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Miller (1998): The impact of candidate name order on election outcomes
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Miller (2005): Shades of meaning: The effect of color and flavor names on consumer choice
Miller and Kahn build on Grice's theory of conversational implicature. They propose that consumers react favourably to unusual colour or flavour names, such as blue haze or Alpine snow, because they…
- Miller (2023): Sophisticated consumers with inertia: long-term implications from a large-scale field experiment
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Millet (2023): Defending humankind: anthropocentric bias in the appreciation of AI art
Four experiments, 1,708 participants; AI-labelled art rated less creative and less awe-inducing; stronger among people holding anthropocentric views of creativity.
- Milliman (1986): The influence of background music on the behavior of restaurant patrons
Milliman critically reviews the limited literature on background music and presents an empirical study of its effect on the behaviour of restaurant customers. He finds that variations in music tempo…
- Milosavljevic (2012): Relative visual saliency differences induce sizable bias in consumer choice
Three real food choice experiments; at rapid decision speeds saliency influences choices more than preferences; bias increases with cognitive load and is strongest without strong preferences.
- Milyavsky (2024): Advice taking vs. combining opinions: Framing social information as advice increases source
[abstract read 2026-10-19] Milyavsky, M., & Gvili, Y. (2024). 'Advice taking vs. combining opinions: Framing social information as advice increases source's perceived helping intentions, trust, and…
- Ministero (2022): Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection
Ministero, Green, Gabriel and Valenti surveyed 671 US adult volunteers online, built a short scale for the tendency to reread and found it distinct from the general tendency to read. Rereading was…
- Miron-Shatz (2009): Evaluating multiepisode events: Boundary conditions for the peak-end rule
Miron-Shatz tested how people evaluate a whole day, using large samples in the United States, France and Denmark who reconstructed the previous day episode by episode and reported how they felt…
- Mitchell (1997): Temporal Adjustments in the Evaluation of Events: The "Rosy View"
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Miyamoto (2002): Cultural variation in correspondence bias: The critical role of attitude diagnosticity of socially constrained behavior
Miyamoto and Kitayama compared Americans and Japanese on the correspondence bias, the tendency to ascribe to a person an attitude matching behaviour that was socially constrained. When the behaviour…
- Miyamoto (2018): Cultural differences in correspondence bias are systematic and multifaceted
Miyamoto and Kitayama respond to the Many Labs 2 replication of their earlier finding that Americans ascribe an attitude to the writer of a constrained political essay even when the essay is…
- Mizik (2008): The financial value impact of perceptual brand attributes
Mizik and Jacobson test which brand asset metrics add explanatory power for stock returns beyond accounting measures, using five attributes from a survey-based brand measure: differentiation…
- Mobius (2006): Why Beauty Matters
The authors split the beauty premium into its parts using an experimental labour market in which 'employers' set the wages of 'workers' who solve a maze, a skill the authors show is unaffected by…
- Modirrousta-Galian (2023): Gamified inoculation interventions do not improve discrimination between true and fake news: reanalyzing existing research with receiver operating characteristic analysis
Modirrousta-Galian and Philip Higham reanalysed the evidence that gamified inoculation games such as Bad News and Go Viral teach people to spot fake news, in the Journal of Experimental Psychology…
- Monahan (2002): Communicating Violence Risk: Frequency Formats, Vivid Outcomes, and Forensic Settings
John Monahan and colleagues build on an earlier finding that clinicians were more likely to keep a patient hospitalised when violence risk was framed as a frequency, such as 20 out of 100 patients…
- Montoya (2008): Is actual similarity necessary for attraction? A meta-analysis of actual and perceived similarity
Montoya, Horton and Kirchner meta-analysed 460 effects from 313 laboratory and field studies. Actual similarity and perceived similarity were both significantly and strongly associated with…