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Ott and colleagues challenge the conclusion of the cross-species sunk cost study on statistical grounds. Their argument is a form of attrition bias. In a task where subjects can quit at any moment…

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In Wood's account, her review with Ouellette covered 64 studies with more than five thousand participants and compared stated intentions with later behaviour. For one-off behaviours such as…

Over and Carpenter asked whether 5-year-old children, like adults, increase imitation after witnessing social exclusion. Children watched a video in which one shape was left out by a group of…

J. Bruce Overmier and Martin Seligman report three experiments on 88 dogs. Dogs given inescapable shock in a first session were slower to escape, and failed more often, in shuttle-box…

Ovsiankina's 1928 paper in Psychologische Forschung, from the Berlin series of studies of action and emotion, reported that people who are interrupted in a task tend to go back to it when given the…

Adrian Owen and colleagues ran a six-week online trial with a BBC science programme. Of 52,617 people aged 18 to 60 who joined, 11,430 completed at least two training sessions and both test…

Pachur, Hertwig and Steinmann compared the availability heuristic with the affect heuristic as explanations of how laypeople judge risks. In two student studies they measured risk perception through…

Packer measured how strongly 78 undergraduates identified with their university with a six-item scale, then asked each to rate privately how harmful they judged problems they had named themselves…

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Paharia, Keinan, Avery and Schor, Journal of Consumer Research 37(5), 2011. Introduces the underdog brand biography with two dimensions, external disadvantage and passion and determination. Four…

Paharia, Avery and Keinan, Journal of Marketing Research 51(6), 2014. In lab and field studies, highlighting a large competitor's size and proximity helped small brands gain support, purchase…

Mauricio Palmeira and Joydeep Srivastava found that willingness to pay for a product after a promotion is withdrawn is higher when it was offered for free than when it was offered at a low…

Stephen Palmer and Karen Schloss propose an ecological valence theory: colour preferences arise from people's average affective responses to the objects associated with those colours. People liked…

Pancani, Aureli and Riva study ghosting and orbiting, ways of ending a relationship by suddenly withdrawing from all communication without explanation, where in orbiting the person still follows the…

Pancer, McShane and Noseworthy examine how the colour green and eco-labels, the cues brands use to signal environmental friendliness, affect perceived product efficacy and purchase intention. Across…

Panova and Carbonell reviewed quantitative and qualitative research on smartphone use. They concluded that most studies assume smartphone addiction exists, that the evidence does not support the…

Paraskevaidis and Andriotis, Tourism Management 48, 2015, 1-10. Exploratory interviews with 20 respondents in Veria, Greece, applying use value, exchange value and sign value, plus a proposed…

Parsons reanalysed overlooked evidence from the relay assembly test room at Hawthorne and argued that the steady rise in output pointed to feedback on performance combined with financial reward…

Pascual-Leone and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation to map motor cortex responses while people learned a one-handed five-finger piano exercise. In the experiment that compared kinds…