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- Geary (2002): Sex differences in behavioral and hormonal response to social threat: Commentary on Taylor et al.
Geary and Flinn's commentary accepts the tend-and-befriend proposal and argues that it was drawn too narrowly. Their case is that the evolutionary frame needs to include features of human social…
- Gerlitz (2023): The productivity tax of new office concepts: a comparative review of open-plan offices, activity-based working, and single-office concepts
Gerlitz and Hulsbeck systematically reviewed the relationship between office concepts and individual and organisational performance, searching publications between 2005 and 2022 and narrowing 429…
- Gierl (2010): Are scarce products always more attractive? The interaction of different types of scarcity signals with products
Heribert Gierl and Verena Huettl compared types of scarcity signal in two survey studies. Scarcity created by limited supply did more for products suited to conspicuous consumption, bought partly to…
- Givon (2026): The process of affect labeling
Givon and colleagues take a step back from the evidence that naming feelings changes them, and ask what naming a feeling actually involves. Their proposal is that affect labelling works like…
- Gjestvang (2019): Are changes in physical fitness, body composition and weight associated with exercise attendance and dropout among fitness club members? Longitudinal prospective study
Gjestvang and colleagues recruited a hundred and twenty-five untrained people who had just joined one of twenty-five gyms in Oslo, and measured them at the start, after three months and after a…
- Golaszewski (2022): Group exercise membership is associated with forms of social support, exercise identity, and amount of physical activity
Golaszewski and colleagues surveyed more than five hundred adults to ask why belonging to an exercise group is associated with exercising more, testing whether the route runs through social support…
- Goldstein (2008): Do more expensive wines taste better? Evidence from a large sample of blind tastings
More than 6,000 blind tastings; correlation between price and overall rating small and negative; indications of a non-negative relationship for individuals with wine training; results hold with…
- Gollwitzer (2006): Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta-analysis of Effects and Processes
This is the meta-analysis of implementation intentions, the technique of specifying in advance the situation in which you will act and exactly what you will do, in the form of an if-then plan. The…
- Gollwitzer (2009): When Intentions Go Public: Does Social Reality Widen the Intention-Behavior Gap?
Gollwitzer and colleagues tested what happens when someone announces an intention connected to the kind of person they want to become, such as telling others they intend to read law journals…
- Gomez-Uribe (2015): The Netflix recommender system: algorithms, business value, and innovation
Recommender 'influences choice for about 80% of hours streamed'; 'We think the combined effect of personalization and recommendations save us more than $1B per year'; churn reduced 'by several…
- Goyal (2014): Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Goyal and colleagues asked what meditation programmes actually do for stress-related health, and answered it by reviewing the trials rather than by running one. They searched the literature…
- Graf (2017): Measuring processing fluency: one versus five items
Graf and colleagues take on a measurement question sitting underneath a large body of consumer research. Processing fluency is recruited constantly as an explanatory construct, yet how best to…
- Graham (2017): Double jeopardy, 50 years on: reviving a forgotten tool that still predicts brand loyalty
A review of double jeopardy fifty years after it was first described, led by Charles Graham in the Australasian Marketing Journal. It draws on 179 peer-reviewed publications and reports 32 further…
- Griskevicius (2007): Blatant benevolence and conspicuous consumption: When romantic motives elicit strategic costly signals.
Vladas Griskevicius and five colleagues tested whether spending and helping can work as costly signals, displays that are believable because they cost something, by putting people into a romantic…
- Griskevicius (2010): Going green to be seen: status, reputation, and conspicuous conservation
Griskevicius, with Joshua Tybur and Bram Van den Bergh, tested the costly signalling account of green buying across three experiments in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The…
- Groh (2014): The significance of attachment security for children's social competence with peers: a meta-analytic study
Groh and colleagues pooled eighty samples, covering more than four thousand children, to ask how much early attachment predicts how well a child gets on with other children later. Security was…
- Gross (1982): Effects of a cognitive intrusion manipulation on the sleep-onset latency of good sleepers
Gross and Borkovec ran an experiment that is unusually direct. Rather than studying people with insomnia, they took good sleepers and gave them something to think about: participants were told they…
- Grossmann (2014): Exploring Solomon's Paradox: Self-Distancing Eliminates the Self-Other Asymmetry in Wise Reasoning About Close Relationships in Younger and Older Adults
Grossmann and Kross tested a pattern named after Solomon, the king celebrated for his judgment whose own household was a disaster: people reason more wisely about other people's problems than about…
- Hagger (2010): Ego depletion and the strength model of self-control: A meta-analysis
Hagger and colleagues meta-analysed eighty-three studies of ego depletion and reported a medium-sized effect, which for several years was the evidence everyone cited. The review also reported…
- Hagger (2016): A Multilab Preregistered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect
23 laboratories, N = 2,141, d = 0.04, 95 per cent CI from -0.07 to 0.15.