Studies (page 80)
- Patterson (2000): Doing Well and Doing Good: How Soft News and Critical Journalism Are Shrinking the News Audience
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Paulhus (2002): The Dark Triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Payne (2016): Replicable effects of primes on human behavior
Payne and colleagues set out to show that priming effects can be obtained reliably when the experiment is designed differently. Rather than comparing groups of people, they used a procedure in which…
- Peciña (2003): Hyperdopaminergic Mutant Mice Have Higher “Wanting” But Not “Liking” for Sweet Rewards
Pecina, Cagniard, Berridge, Aldridge and Zhuang used a genetic mutant approach to ask what dopamine does in natural reward. A dopamine transporter knockdown mutation preserving only a tenth of…
- Pecina (2005): Hedonic Hot Spot in Nucleus Accumbens Shell: Where Do Mu-Opioids Cause Increased Hedonic Impact of Sweetness?
Pecina and Berridge set out to find where in the brain pleasure is actually amplified, rather than where reward-related activity appears. Working in rats, they injected an opioid drug at many…
- Peck (2003): To have and to hold: The influence of haptic information on product judgments
Peck and Childers propose a framework in which the usefulness of touch information (texture, hardness, temperature, weight) varies by product, consumer and situation. Two experiments show that…
- Peck (2009): The effect of mere touch on perceived ownership
Study 1, 231 University of Wisconsin-Madison undergraduates, all buyers, Slinky and mug; valuation $3.38 touch against $2.73 no touch (no imagery); without touch, imagery raised valuation from $2.73…
- Peetz (2025): Goals out loud: telling others about a goal increases support received and facilitates goal pursuit
Four longitudinal studies with 1,035 participants by J. Peetz and colleagues. People who shared a goal reported more support from others, and in most studies that support was linked to greater…
- Pellegrini (1981): Room Color and Aggression in a Criminal Detention Holding Cell: A Test of the Tranquilizing Pink Hypothesis
Pellegrini, Schauss and Miller compared aggressive encounters between officers and detainees in the year before and the year after the strip-search room of a Santa Clara County detention facility…
- Pendem (2022): The Microstructure of Work: Understanding Productivity Benefits and Costs of Interruptions
[FULL STRUCTURED ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE via the Crossref item record, which deposits it entire. FULL TEXT NOT READ, so no coefficient, instrument detail, robustness check or quotation…
- Penn (2020): The Handicap Principle: how an erroneous hypothesis became a scientific principle
Penn and Számadó reviewed the handicap principle critically. They argue that Zahavi's later ideas of waste and signal selection are logically flawed, that Grafen's 1990 models support a different…
- Pennycook (2021): Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online
Pennycook and colleagues report four survey experiments and a field experiment on a social network. Their abstract states that whether a headline is true has little effect on whether people say they…
- Peperkoorn (2016): Revisiting the Red Effect on Attractiveness and Sexual Receptivity: No Effect of the Color Red on Human Mate Preferences
Peperkoorn, Roberts and Pollet present three studies whose results did not support the prediction, drawn from colour-in-context theory, that red clothing raises attractiveness ratings. The work was…
- Peperkoorn (2024): Meta-analysis of the red advantage in combat sports
Peperkoorn, Hill, Barton and Pollet meta-analyse 6,589 contest outcomes in boxing, taekwondo and wrestling from seven Summer Olympic Games between 1996 and 2020 and nine World Boxing Championships…
- Peplau (1979): Blueprint for a social psychological theory of loneliness
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Pereira (2017): O preto como signo de qualidade e distinção na comunicação da embalagem de alimentos
Pereira examines the symbolic content of colour in food packaging communication, drawing on doctoral research that analysed packaging in ten colours and reporting the black subset. She treats colour…
- Perez-Truglia (2018): Shaming tax delinquents
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Perla (2026): The (In)Effectiveness of Psychological Targeting: A Meta-Analytic Review
Perla and colleagues present the first meta-analysis of psychological targeting, in which machine learning predicts consumer personality from digital footprints and persuasive messages are then…
- Perlow (1999): The Time Famine: Toward a Sociology of Work Time
[COMPLETE ARTICLE READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the copy at interruptions.net, and the publisher's abstract also read entire at the Crossref item record] Perlow, L. A. (1999). 'The Time Famine: Toward a…
- Pes (2024): To Whom It May Concern
[NOT A STUDY, an open letter signed by six named demographers. READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, complete with all seventeen references and all five signatory blocks] Pes, G., Rosero-Bixby, L., Chrysohoou…