Studies (page 93)
- Schulson (2021): Among social scientists, a vigorous debate over loss aversion
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Schultz (2007): The Constructive, Destructive, and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms
Schultz, Nolan, Cialdini and colleagues note that normative messages work well in laboratory tests but have had mixed success in field contexts, with some boomerang effects. In a field experiment…
- Schwardmann (2019): Deception and self-deception
Peter Schwardmann and Joël van der Weele test Robert Trivers's strategic self-deception hypothesis, that people deceive themselves into higher confidence so that they can better persuade others…
- Schwarz (1983): Mood, misattribution, and judgments of well-being: informative and directive functions of affective states
More happiness and satisfaction with life in a good mood; the negative impact of bad moods eliminated when participants were induced to attribute their feelings to an external source. Weather…
- Schwarz (1991): Ease of retrieval as information: Another look at the availability heuristic
Schwarz and colleagues tested whether the experienced ease of recall, and not the number of examples recalled, changes how people judge themselves. Participants recalled either a few or many…
- Schwarz (2003): Mood as information: 20 years later
Schwarz and Clore look back twenty years on the mood-as-information account and describe the weather procedure: random assignment of student numbers to sunny or rainy days, a caller posing as out of…
- Scientific American (2025): The Biggest Trial Yet Confirms Four-Day Workweek Makes Employees Happier
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Scopelliti (2018): Individual differences in correspondence bias: Measurement, consequences, and correction of biased interpersonal attributions
Scopelliti, Min, McCormick, Kassam and Morewedge developed and validated a ten-item Neglect of External Demands scale. Scale development used 150 US adults on an online platform, and a test-retest…
- Seabrooke (2025): Re-examining the bad news game: no evidence of improved discrimination of Indian true and fake news headlines
The title says what it found. Seabrooke, with Ariana Modirrousta-Galian and Philip Higham, re-examined the Bad News game using Indian true and fake news headlines in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review…
- SECONDARY REPORTS AND RELAYS USED IN THE ARTICL Schifferstei: The signal function of thematically (in)congruent ambient scents in a retail environment
[NOT READ directly; design, result and quotation taken from the paper that cites it, 2026-10-19] Schifferstein, H. N. J., & Blok, S. T. (2002). 'The signal function of thematically (in)congruent…
- Secrist (1933): The Triumph of Mediocrity in Business
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Seeley (2007): Dissociable intrinsic connectivity networks for salience processing and executive control
Seeley and colleagues use task-free connectivity analyses to isolate two distinct brain networks that are usually coactivated during functional MRI tasks. They identify a salience network, anchored…
- Seiter (2021): Towards a better understanding on mitigating algorithm aversion in forecasting: an experimental study
[abstract only; full text not retrieved, 2026-10-19] Seiter, M., and colleagues (2021). 'Towards a better understanding on mitigating algorithm aversion in forecasting: an experimental study.'…
- Seli (2018): How pervasive is mind wandering, really?
Seli and colleagues take aim at a number that had become common knowledge, the claim that people spend between a third and half of their waking lives mind wandering. Their objection is not that…
- Seligman (1967): Failure to escape traumatic shock.
Martin Seligman and Steven Maier reported the 1967 dog experiments in which animals given shocks they could not end later escaped poorly in a shuttle box. The design, as the 1976 review describes…
- Sen (2001): Does Doing Good Always Lead to Doing Better? Consumer Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility
Sen and Bhattacharya examine when, how and for whom specific corporate social responsibility initiatives work for consumers. Company-specific factors, such as the issues a company chooses and its…
- Shafer (2012): Exploring how we enjoy antihero narratives
Shafer and Raney report three studies suggesting moral judgement matters less to enjoying antihero narratives than affective disposition theory predicts, that prior exposure to an antihero narrative…
- Shah (2007): Buying Behavior as a Function of Parametric Variation of Number of Choices
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Shah (2016): A pessimistic view of optimistic belief updating
Shah, Harris, Bird, Catmur and Hahn examine the claim that people hold unrealistic optimism and that this arises from belief updating in which favourable information shifts risk estimates more than…
- Shahab (2021): Sludge and transaction costs
Shahab and Lades examine the relationship between sludge, as behavioural scientists use the term, and transaction costs as understood in economics. Both literatures use an analogy to friction, and…