Studies (page 8)

Fincham, Strauss, Montero-Marin and Cavanagh meta-analysed randomised controlled trials of breathwork, searching seven databases and two trial registers to February 2022 and identifying 1,325…

A survey of 1,004 US adults in September 2025. Seventy-one per cent were highly confident they could detect financial fraud, yet 63 per cent would definitely or probably invest in an offer of a…

Peter Fischer, Stephen Lea and K. M. Evans compared people who did and did not report past compliance with scams, in two questionnaire studies including a simulated scam. The main differences were…

Paul Fitts and R. E. Jones analysed 460 pilot-error experiences in operating aircraft controls, sorting them into types including using the wrong control, moving a control to the wrong position…

Analytical model and simulation; recommenders can push each person to new products but often push users toward the same products; individual diversity can rise while aggregate diversity falls…

Fogg's short conference paper sets out the behaviour model that carries his name, and its usefulness comes from how little it contains. A behaviour happens, he argues, only when three things are…

A commentary by Kieran Fox and colleagues on the 2014 thinking studies. It points out that 57 per cent of participants in the shock study never shocked themselves and only 17 per cent gave more than…

A Cochrane review led by D. R. Foxcroft of 70 studies with 44,958 university and college students on social norms information for alcohol misuse. Effects at four months or more were very small…

Fraley tested the two competing accounts of how early attachment relates to later attachment. The prototype account holds that early representations persist and continue to influence behaviour…

Frankenbach and colleagues tested a plausible worry about nostalgia. The research on it reports benefits to the sense of self, to feeling life has meaning and to social connection, but people high…

Frattaroli meta-analysed a hundred and forty-six randomised studies of expressive writing and disclosure, the practice of writing or talking about personal and meaningful experiences. Earlier and…

Frederick, Lee and Baskin ask where the attraction effect actually works rather than demonstrating it again. Consumer research has documented dozens of cases in which adding an irrelevant third…

Fredrickson and Kahneman established duration neglect. Participants watched pleasant and unpleasant film clips that varied in both length and intensity, rating how they felt moment by moment during…

Friedman and colleagues went looking for the sunk cost fallacy in a controlled setting and largely failed to find it. Participants played a computer game in which they dug for treasure on an island…

Fudenberg, Levine and Maniadis re-examined the anchoring manipulation used in the most famous demonstration outside psychology, in which people considered their own identification digits before…

Gabaix and Laibson explain why hidden fees survive competition. Bayesian consumers infer that hidden add-on prices, such as the cost of ink for a printer, are likely to be high, so if all consumers…

Celia Gaertig and Joseph Simmons tested why a chance at a reward, such as a small chance of getting a product free, often beats a sure discount worth the same on average. Across five studies with…

Gao and colleagues reviewed twenty-one studies on what keeps adults attending instructor-led group fitness classes, sorting the evidence by which psychological factor was tested. Self-efficacy came…

The myth may stem from confusing habituation with habit formation.

Automaticity plateaued 'after an average of 66 days'; Maltz's patients 'typically adjusted psychologically to their new appearance within 21 days'.