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Risen and Gilovich found that making a choice that presupposes one state of the world can make the opposite state seem more likely, even when the choice has no causal effect. They explained this…

[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL at the Crossref item record; full text not read] Rishika, R., Kumar, A., Janakiraman, R., & Bezawada, R. (2013). 'The Effect of Customers' Social Media Participation on…

Rithalia and colleagues conducted a systematic review of what presumed consent does to organ donation rates, covering five before-and-after studies of countries that changed their law, eight…

Ilana Ritov and Jonathan Baron use scenarios in which change happens unless someone acts, which lets them separate a preference for the status quo from a preference for not acting. Participants…

Robbins (2024), The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About. Cited in 1 article on this site.

This is the original 1993 statement of the incentive-sensitisation theory, and it is organised around three questions. Why do addicted people crave drugs; why does craving persist long after…

Robinson and colleagues reviewed twenty-four experiments on whether attention and memory affect how much people eat, and combined the results. Four conclusions come out of it. Eating while…

Robinson and colleagues reviewed twenty-two experiments that manipulated how fast people ate and measured how much they then consumed. Combining them, eating more slowly was associated with eating…

Robinson and Berridge revisit the incentive-sensitisation theory of addiction thirty years after they proposed it, and the review is useful precisely because it engages with the objections. The…

[NOT A STUDY. A trade-press interview. COMPLETE INTERVIEW READ IN FULL AT SOURCE at news.gallup.com/businessjournal/23146, and RE-READ IN FULL at source on the verification pass of 2026-10-22. Page…

Rock, Linnett, Grant and Mack, Perception without attention: results of a new method, Cognitive Psychology 24(4), 502-534, 1992. Cited as the paper that introduced the method; no specific finding is…

Rodin and Langer re-evaluated, eighteen months later, elderly nursing home residents who had taken part in an intervention designed to raise feelings of choice and personal responsibility over daily…

29 per cent noticed their own name; more shadowing errors around it; low-span participants more likely to notice; unexpected words rarely detected.

Rogers and Monsell had participants alternate between two simple tasks, classifying a digit as odd or even or a letter as consonant or vowel, with the switch every second trial in five experiments…

Roisman and colleagues tested an idea that had become popular in the attachment literature: earned security, the person who describes a difficult childhood coherently and goes on to parent well…

Roisman and colleagues addressed a problem that had been quietly undermining the attachment literature: two different measures both called attachment, one a lengthy developmental interview about a…

Rolls and colleagues served fifty-one men and women lunch once a week for four weeks, varying only the amount of food presented, from a moderate portion to double it. People ate more when given…

Romaniuk and Sharp note that brand salience has traditionally been treated as top of mind, the brand mentioned first when the category is the cue, and argue that this conceptualisation and its…

Low perceived differentiation across many categories and two countries; customers still buy; distinctiveness placed at the centre of brand strategy. Category averages of 11, 10 and 17 per cent and…