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- Pessoa (2019): Neural architecture of the vertebrate brain: implications for the interaction between emotion and cognition
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Petrutiu (2026): WEIRD but Also Inconsistent: An Analysis of the Reporting Practices of Participant Samples Across Five Areas of Psychology
[COMPLETE ARTICLE READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the CC-BY publisher's version at the University of Birmingham open repository] Petrutiu, L., Birney, M. E., Cooke, R., & Stewart, S. (2026). 'WEIRD but Also…
- Pettibone (2012): Testing the effect of time pressure on asymmetric dominance and compromise decoys in choice
Pettibone tested a prediction from dynamic, connectionist models of decision making such as decision field theory, in which context effects arise from a series of pairwise comparisons between…
- Petty (1983): Central and peripheral routes to advertising effectiveness: The moderating role of involvement
Petty, Cacioppo and Schumann had undergraduates report attitudes to a product after a magazine advertisement under high or low involvement, with strong or weak arguments and prominent sports…
- Pew (2010): Alphonse Chapanis: pioneer in the application of psychology to engineering design
Richard Pew's profile of Alphonse Chapanis in the APS Observer describes how Chapanis noticed that the landing flaps and landing gear on some wartime bombers had identical switches placed side by…
- Pew Research Center (2026): 7 in 10 Americans say they cut back spending on extras
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Pezalla (2024): Trying to remain calm...but I do reach my limit sometimes
100 parents of children aged 2 to 7 in three US regions; 49 identified as gentle parents; the abstract states that gentle parenting has received no empirical scrutiny; uncertainty and burnout…
- Pfahlert (2004): Brand-colour associations: a comparison of survey methods
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Pham (1999): From Thought to Action: Effects of Process-Versus Outcome-Based Mental Simulations on Performance
Lien Pham and Shelley Taylor compared two kinds of mental simulation. College freshmen spent the days before a midterm exam simulating the process of studying for it, the outcome of getting a good…
- Philpot (2020): Would I be helped? Cross-national CCTV footage shows that intervention is the norm in public conflicts
Philpot and colleagues point out that fifty years of bystander research answered a question about individuals, whether any one person is less likely to help when others are present, and left the…
- Photo-Taking Impairment in Recognition Memory: Comparing Att: Photo-Taking Impairment in Recognition Memory: Comparing Attentional Disengagement and Cognitive Offloading Accounts
[ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT RETRIEVED AND SEARCHED AT SOURCE, the open-access repository copy. The abstract, the three experiments' condition means and the discussion of Soares and Storm were read; THE…
- Piatetsky (2014): Did Target Really Predict a Teen
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Pickard (2026): HBO Max sets Christmas 2026 date with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Pieters (2004): Attention capture and transfer in advertising: Brand, pictorial, and text-size effects
Pieters and Wedel analysed 1363 print advertisements tested with infrared eye tracking on more than 3600 consumers. They report that the three key ad elements, brand, pictorial and text, each have…
- Piggott (2004): Does food safety information impact U.S. meat demand?
Piggott and Marsh build a theoretical model of how consumers respond to publicised food safety information about meat and test it on United States meat consumption data. Consumption shows committed…
- Piñon (2005): A meta-analytic review of framing effect: Risky, attribute and goal framing
Piñon and Gambara pool primary studies of framing effects published over a seven-year span to estimate how large the effect is for risky, attribute and goal framing. Effect sizes for risky-choice…
- Pinquart (2017): Associations of parenting dimensions and styles with externalizing problems of children and adolescents: an updated meta-analysis
1,435 studies; warmth, behavioural control, autonomy granting and authoritative style showed very small to small negative associations with externalizing problems; harsh control, psychological…
- Piqueras-Fiszman (2013): Assessing the influence of the color of the plate on the perception of a complex food in a restaurant setting
Piqueras-Fiszman, Giboreau and Spence tested plate colour where it matters, in a working restaurant, with complex food and diners who had come out to eat. Earlier studies had shown that identical…
- Piqueras-Fiszman (2015): Sensory expectations based on product-extrinsic food cues: An interdisciplinary review of the empirical evidence and theoretical accounts
Piqueras-Fiszman and Spence wrote an interdisciplinary review of the empirical evidence and theoretical accounts of sensory expectations based on product-extrinsic food cues. No finding from the…
- Pisklak (2019): The Near-Miss Effect in Slot Machines: A Review and Experimental Analysis Over Half a Century Later
Pisklak first author. A review plus three experiments tested whether near misses sustain slot machine play, using a resistance-to-extinction procedure in pigeons, the same procedure with human…