Studies (page 75)
- Newman (2012): Art and authenticity: The importance of originals in judgments of value.
Newman and Bloom asked why original artworks are valued more than identical duplicates, and tested two mechanisms: the object as a unique creative act, which they call performance, and the degree of…
- Newman (2014): Physical contact influences how much people pay at celebrity auctions
[abstract only; full text NOT READ, 2026-10-19] Newman, G. E., & Bloom, P. (2014). 'Physical contact influences how much people pay at celebrity auctions.' Proceedings of the National Academy of…
- Newman (2014): When Going Green Backfires: How Firm Intentions Shape the Evaluation of Socially Beneficial Product Enhancements
the exact mechanism the brief asks about, stated outright in the abstract. The authors report that consumers are less likely to buy a green product when they see the company as having improved it on…
- Newman (2024): Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud
[A PREPRINT THAT HAS NOT BEEN PEER REVIEWED. THE COMPLETE ABSTRACT, THE VERSION FOOTNOTE AND THE POSTING METADATA READ IN FULL AT SOURCE. THE 67-PAGE FULL TEXT WAS NOT READ, so nothing describes its…
- Newman-Norlund (2014): Neural biomarkers for assessing different types of imagery in pictorial health warning labels for cigarette packaging: a cross-sectional study
A cross-sectional imaging study of 50 adult smokers viewing pictorial health warnings. Warnings activated visual and emotional networks, and smokers who rated labels as more emotionally arousing…
- Newton (1990): The rocky road from actions to intentions (Doctoral dissertation). Stanford University, Department of Psychology
Newton's dissertation reports 40 tappers and 40 listeners using 120 songs. Tappers predicted on average that half would be identified, with individual guesses from 10 to 95 per cent. Listeners…
- Nickerson (1998): Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises
Nickerson reviews experimental and applied evidence on confirmation bias, the tendency to seek and interpret evidence in ways that favour a prior belief or expectation. The review covers many forms…
- Nicolao (2009): Nicolao, L., Irwin, J. R., & Goodman, J. K. (2009). Happiness for sale: do experiential purchases make consumers happier than material purchases? Journal of Consumer Research, 36(2), 188-198. doi:10.1
Nicolao, Irwin and Goodman test the recommendation, from earlier theories, that consumers are happier spending on experiences such as travel than on material possessions such as cars. They show that…
- Nicolau (2012): The Free Breakfast Effect: An Experimental Approach to the Zero Price Model in Tourism
Juan Luis Nicolau and Ricardo Sellers presented what they describe as the first evidence of the zero price effect in tourism, applying the zero price model to a two-component tourism product. In…
- Nielsen (2012): Global Trust in Advertising and Brand Messages
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Nielsen (2015): The Sustainability Imperative
Nielsen (2015). 'The Sustainability Imperative.' Nielsen, October 2015. [TRACE STOPPED HERE AND THE ARTICLE SAYS SO. The insights page returned an empty body on this pass, so nothing was read at…
- Nielsen (2026): Nielsen: Super Bowl LX Final Viewership Rises to 125.6 Million Viewers with Verified Big Data
This is the independent audience measurement for the same broadcast, and the reason both it and the broadcaster's release are cited. Nielsen's final figure for Super Bowl LX, using its combined big…
- Niendorf (2008): Good to Great, or Just Good?
Bruce Niendorf and Kristine Beck take as their subject Jim Collins's Good to Great, in which eleven firms were identified as great and five management principles were derived from them. They contend…
- Nieuwenstein (2015): On making the right choice: a meta-analysis and large-scale replication attempt of the unconscious thought advantage
A meta-analysis and large replication with 399 participants testing the unconscious thought advantage, the claim that complex decisions are better made after a period of distraction than after…
- NIH Office of Research on Women's Health. 'ORWH timeline' (i: s Health
1986 NIH inclusion policy urging applicants to include women and minorities; 1990 General Accounting Office study finding about 20 per cent of NIH grant applications gave no information on the sex…
- Niles (2015): Affect labeling enhances exposure effectiveness for public speaking anxiety
This is the second clinical test of affect labelling, applied to fear of public speaking rather than to spiders. The technique is the same: while facing the feared situation, the person names what…
- Nisbett (1977): Telling more than we can know: verbal reports on mental processes
Nisbett and Timothy Wilson reviewed the evidence on whether people can report on their own mental processes, in Psychological Review. It is a review of a literature rather than an experiment, so it…
- Nisbett (1977): Telling more than we can know: verbal reports on mental processes
Nisbett (1977), Telling more than we can know: verbal reports on mental processes. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Nisbett (1977): The halo effect: evidence for unconscious alteration of judgments
118 University of Michigan students; one Belgian instructor filmed warm and cold; liking means 5.48 against 3.18; subjects denied any influence and the cold-condition subjects reported the reverse…
- Nivison (2023): The predictive validity of the strange situation procedure: Evidence from registered analyses of two landmark longitudinal studies
Nivison and colleagues asked how much infant attachment really predicts, and did it the hard way: registered analyses of two landmark longitudinal studies, the Minnesota study of risk and adaptation…