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- Roth (2015): On the sunk-cost effect in economic decision-making: a meta-analytic review
Roth and colleagues meta-analysed ninety-eight effect sizes on the sunk cost effect and made a distinction the literature had been blurring. Decisions where money has already been spent come in two…
- Roth Tran (2022): The Impact of Weather on Retail Sales
Brigitte Roth Tran uses daily sales at more than 100 stores of one national apparel and sporting goods brand, April 2010 to December 2013, matched to weather station data. Good-weather gains were…
- Rothschild (2014): Are public opinion polls self-fulfilling prophecies?
David Rothschild and Neil Malhotra ask whether polls become self-fulfilling prophecies by producing a bandwagon effect, and note that the existing empirical literature on the bandwagon effects of…
- Rottenstreich (2001): Money, Kisses, and Electric Shocks: On the Affective Psychology of Risk
Yuval Rottenstreich and Christopher Hsee challenge the view that the S-shaped probability weighting function of prospect theory reflects the psychophysics of chance. They propose an affective…
- Rozanski (2019): Association of Optimism With Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
[COMPLETE ARTICLE READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, open access at jamanetwork.com, including the mechanisms, clinical-significance and limitations sections] Rozanski, A., Bavishi, C., Kubzansky, L. D., &…
- Rozin (1998): What Causes Humans to Begin and End a Meal? A Role for Memory for What Has Been Eaten, as Evidenced by a Study of Multiple Meal Eating in Amnesic Patients
Rozin and colleagues asked what actually tells a person a meal is over, and tested the answer with two patients whose amnesia was so severe they could not retain events for more than about a minute…
- Rozin (2001): Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion
Rozin and Royzman propose a general negativity bias, shaped by innate predispositions and experience, with four components: negative entities are more potent than equivalent positive ones…
- Ruan (2018): The teasing effect: An underappreciated benefit of creating and resolving an uncertainty
Ruan, Hsee and Lu, Journal of Marketing Research 55(4), 2018, 556-570. Seven studies find that setting up and resolving an uncertainty can produce a more positive overall experience; people given…
- Rubie-Davies (2015): A teacher expectation intervention: Modelling the practices of high expectation teachers
Rubie-Davies and colleagues randomly assigned 84 teachers to workshops on practices of high-expectation teachers or to a control group, and over a year pupils of the workshop teachers improved more…
- Rubin (1998): Things learned in early adulthood are remembered best
Rubin and colleagues document the reminiscence bump. When older adults recall their lives, memories cluster disproportionately in the years between roughly ten and thirty: the most memories, the…
- Rubinstein (2001): Executive control of cognitive processes in task switching
[BODY TEXT READ IN PART AT SOURCE, a full-text copy at a third-party host matching the Crossref record on masthead, volume, issue, pages and DOI. READ IN FULL: the abstract, the introduction, the…
- Ruble (1977): Premenstrual symptoms: a reinterpretation
women's perceived cycle phase was separated experimentally from actual phase; those led to believe they were premenstrual reported significantly more physical symptoms, such as water retention, than…
- Rudolph (2021): Generations and Generational Differences: Debunking Myths in Organizational Science and Practice and Paving New Paths Forward
Rudolph, Rauvola, Costanza and Zacher start from the observation that talk about generations is everywhere in organisational science and practice, while the evidence for generations existing is, in…
- Ruffle (2015): Are Good-Looking People More Employable?
Ruffle and Shtudiner tested whether looks affect hiring by sending pairs of CVs to advertised job openings. In each pair one CV had no photograph and the other, nearly identical, carried a…
- Ruiz Pardo (2022): brain drain
Ruiz Pardo and Minda report a pre-registered direct replication of the second experiment by Ward and colleagues on smartphones and cognition. Smartphone location, on the desk, in a pocket or bag, or…
- Rukh (2022): Evidence of a Causal Link Between the Well-Being Spectrum and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction: A Mendelian Randomization Study
[ABSTRACT READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the Frontiers full-text page, open access; THE BODY WAS READ ONLY IN PART, covering the instrument description and the pleiotropy checks] Rukh, G., Ahmad, S., Lind…
- Russell (1996): UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3): Reliability, validity, and factor structure
Russell's 1996 paper presents the third version of the UCLA Loneliness Scale. The scale has 20 statements rated on a four-point frequency format from never to always, with positively worded…
- Russell (2002): Investigating the effectiveness of product placements in television shows: the role of modality and plot connection congruence on brand memory and attitude
Cristel Antonia Russell had a 27-minute sitcom produced in three versions and showed it to 107 students, varying whether brands were seen or spoken and whether they were tied to the plot. Spoken…
- Russell (2012): The temporal and focal dynamics of volitional reconsumption: A phenomenological investigation of repeated hedonic experiences
Russell and Levy interviewed consumers about experiences they chose to have again, including rereading books, rewatching movies and revisiting places. They identified five dominant categories and…
- Rutchick (2008): Antecedents of entitativity in categorically and dynamically construed groups
Rutchick, Hamilton and Sack distinguish two ways of construing a group, as a dynamic set of interacting people or as a category of similar people. In two experiments an analogy about bees induced…