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- Powers (2011): The Effects of Self-Criticism and Self-Oriented Perfectionism on Goal Pursuit
Powers and colleagues examined whether perfectionism helps or hinders people in reaching their goals, across five studies covering several life domains. The literature had been unsettled because…
- Prelec (1998): The red and the black: mental accounting of savings and debt
Pain of paying, taxi meter example, coupling (credit cards weaken it, cash produces tight coupling), flat-rate preference; model fitted better for 60 per cent of subjects against 29 per cent for…
- Prelec (2001): Always leave home without it: a further investigation of the credit-card effect on willingness to pay
Genuine transactions of potentially high value; willingness to pay increased when instructed to use a credit card; effect up to 100 per cent; unlikely to arise solely from liquidity constraints. The…
- Prelec (2003): Self-signaling and diagnostic utility in everyday decision making
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Prentice (1944): The interruption of tasks
Prentice's 1944 critical review of research on interrupted tasks describes resumption as a dependable observation. It reports that the Berlin school read resumption and enhanced recall as products…
- Prentice (1993): Pluralistic ignorance and alcohol use on campus: some consequences of misperceiving the social norm
Deborah Prentice and Dale Miller report four studies of students' attitudes to drinking on campus. Students consistently believed they were less comfortable with campus drinking practices than the…
- Price (2009): From group diffusion to ratio bias: Effects of denominator and numerator salience on intuitive risk and likelihood judgments
The authors start from the group-diffusion effect, the tendency to judge your own risk as lower when more people share the same threat even though the probability is stated. They replicate it in…
- Princeton University (2006): Link between income and happiness is mainly an illusion
Princeton's release reported that Alan Krueger and Daniel Kahneman, with colleagues from three other universities, found in Science that the link between income and happiness is greatly exaggerated…
- Princeton University (2011): Disfluency summary
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Prior (2005): News vs. Entertainment: How Increasing Media Choice Widens Gaps in Political Knowledge and Turnout
Prior asks why the growth of available public affairs information through cable television and the internet has not noticeably changed knowledge and civic participation. He argues that greater media…
- Progovac (2019): Optimism may moderate screening mammogram frequency in Medicare: A longitudinal study
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, an institutional repository record which prints it entire; THE FULL TEXT WAS NOT READ, and an erratum exists which was ALSO NOT READ, so its existence is recorded…
- Pronin (2002): The bias blind spot: Perceptions of bias in self versus others
Across three studies, Pronin, Lin and Ross found that people judge others as more prone to cognitive and motivational biases than themselves. Participants who showed this pattern still held that…
- Pronin (2007): Alone in a Crowd of Sheep: Asymmetric Perceptions of Conformity and Their Roots in an Introspection Illusion
Pronin, Berger and Molouki report five studies showing that people see others as more conforming than themselves, in domains from consumer purchases to opinions. Participants claimed to be less…
- Protzko (2024): RETRACTED ARTICLE: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable
This paper reported an unusually encouraging result. Four coordinated laboratories tested sixteen newly discovered social and behavioural effects using rigour-enhancing practices throughout…
- Prowten (2024): Does Physiological Arousal Increase Social Transmission of Information? Two Replications of Berger
Skyler Prowten and colleagues repeated a widely cited experiment by Jonah Berger from 2011, in which undergraduates made more physically aroused, by jogging on the spot, were more likely to email a…
- Prowten, S. D., Walker, E., London, B., Pearce, E. N., Napol: Prowten, S. D., Walker, E., London, B., Pearce, E. N., Napoli, A., Chenevert, B., Clevenger, C
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Przybylski (2013): reflect snapshots of individuals in time
definition given; 32 candidate items reduced to 10; Study 1, 1,013 adults via Mechanical Turk, 41.1 per cent United States and 35.9 per cent India; Study 2, 2,079 British adults aged 22 to 65; Study…
- Przybylski (2017): A Large-Scale Test of the Goldilocks Hypothesis
Przybylski and Weinstein tested the assumption underneath most screen-time advice, that more use means worse mental wellbeing, using a representative sample of more than a hundred thousand English…
- Puccinelli (2013): Are Men Seduced by Red? The Effect of Red Versus Black Prices on Price Perceptions
Puccinelli, Chandrashekaran, Grewal and Suri examine how red versus black prices affect perceived savings in four studies. Men perceived greater savings with red prices, and the effect weakened when…
- Pugh (2001): Service with a smile: Emotional contagion in the service encounter
S. Douglas Pugh asked what leads employees to display emotion at work and what those displays lead to. He proposed that customers catch employees' affect through emotional contagion. Employees'…