Studies (page 82)
- Pittenger (1993): The Utility of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
a validity review on Messick's unified view, concluding that the evidence does not support the test's tenets or the claims made about its utility NO RETEST PERCENTAGE appears in the abstract…
- Pittenger (2005): Cautionary comments regarding the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Pittenger evaluates the psychometric properties of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a popular measure of normal personality with claimed applications. He responds to an account of how counsellors…
- Plassmann (2008): Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness
20 subjects (11 male, ages 21 to 30), screened for liking red wine; three wines presented as five, wine 1 at $5 and $45, wine 2 at $10 and $90, wine 3 at $35; pleasantness differed by price for both…
- Plassmann (2008): Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness
20 subjects (11 male, ages 21 to 30), screened for liking red wine; three wines presented as five, wine 1 at $5 and $45, wine 2 at $10 and $90, wine 3 at $35; pleasantness differed by price for both…
- Plassmann (2015): Consumer neuroscience: Applications, challenges, and possible solutions
Plassmann, Venkatraman, Huettel and Yoon describe the first decade of consumer neuroscience as foundational work on the neural processes behind judgement and decision making, mostly published in…
- Platts (2020): Sickness absence and sickness presence in relation to office type: An observational study of employer-recorded and self-reported data from Sweden
Platts, Seddigh, Berntson and Westerlund tested a claim that had rested largely on self-report. Earlier research associating open-plan offices with higher sickness absence depended on people…
- Plott (2005): The willingness to pay-willingness to accept gap, the ‘endowment effect,’ subject misconceptions, and experimental procedures for eliciting valuations
Controls for subject misconceptions combined (anonymity, incentive-compatible elicitation, practice and training, modified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism); experiments with lotteries and mugs…
- Plott (2007): Exchange asymmetries incorrectly interpreted as evidence of endowment effect theory and prospect theory?
No exchange asymmetries under modified procedures; asymmetries reappear with traditional-type procedures.
- Plott (2011): The willingness to pay-willingness to accept gap, the ‘endowment effect,’ subject misconceptions, and experimental procedures for eliciting valuations: reply
All mug data reject endowment effect theory; lottery gaps associated with unstable attitudes toward uncertainty; lottery outcome beliefs influenced by whether WTP or WTA is reported.
- Poldrack (2006): Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data?
Poldrack used a Bayesian framework to show that reverse inference, concluding that a cognitive process is involved because a brain region was active, is only as reliable as the region's selectivity…
- Polivy (2020): Overeating in restrained and unrestrained eaters
Herman and Polivy (1980, 'Experimental and clinical aspects of restrained eating', in A. J. Stunkard (Ed.), Obesity: Basic Mechanisms and Treatment, W. B. Saunders) named the effect the…
- Pollack (2020): Passion at work: A meta-analysis of individual work outcomes
Pollack, Ho, O'Boyle and Kirkman note that research on work passion is more complex than the literature or popular press portray, and that differing theoretical bases and measures have created…
- Pollet (2011): Extraverts Have Larger Social Network Layers
Pollet, Roberts and Dunbar examine how extraversion relates to the size of the different layers of a social network, and to the emotional intensity of the relationships inside them, across 117…
- Pollstar (2025): Pollstar 2025 Year End Business Analysis, A Return To Earth
This is the live music industry's own year-end analysis, cited for a pattern rather than a headline. For 2025 it reported that total grosses and ticket sales fell while average prices rose, with…
- Ponnock (2020): Grit and conscientiousness: Another jangle fallacy
Ponnock, A., Muenks, K., Morell, M., Yang, J. S., Gladstone, J. R., & Wigfield, A. (2020). 'Grit and conscientiousness: Another jangle fallacy.' Journal of Research in Personality, 89, article…
- Ponnock (2020): Ponnock, A., Muenks, K., Morell, M., Yang, J. S., Gladstone, J. R., & Wigfield, A. (2020).
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Postmes (1998): Deindividuation and antinormative behavior: A meta-analysis
Postmes and Spears integrated 60 independent studies to test deindividuation theory as an explanation of collective and antinormative behaviour. Deindividuation research typically manipulates…
- Postmes (2013): A single-item measure of social identification: Reliability, validity, and utility
Postmes, Haslam and Jans introduce a single-item measure of social identification in which respondents indicate their agreement, on a seven-point scale, with a statement that they identify with…
- Potter (2014): A Critical Analysis of Cultivation Theory
Potter analyses the cultivation literature and finds three conceptions of the term: Gerbner's macrosystem explanation of mass media processes and effects, a pattern of operational practices that…
- Powell (2017): The Love of Large Numbers: A Popularity Bias in Consumer Choice
Powell first author, not Holyoak. The authors built an intuitive statistician model using a prior derived from millions of retail reviews, then compared its predictions with participants' choices in…