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- Sinclair (2017): Compassion fatigue: A meta-narrative review of the healthcare literature
Sinclair and colleagues report a meta-narrative review of 90 studies from the nursing and wider healthcare literature on compassion fatigue. The review examines whether the construct describes the…
- Singh (1990): A typology of consumer dissatisfaction response styles
Singh set out to identify groups of dissatisfied consumers with distinct response styles, to validate the typology against behavioural data and to profile each group. Four questionnaires were…
- Singh (2006): Impact of color on marketing
Singh reviews the literature on colour in marketing. He notes that colour is a source of information, that people form quick impressions of people and products, and that a large share of the…
- Sirota (2021): Disfluent fonts do not help people to solve math and non-math problems regardless of their numeracy
Sirota, Theodoropoulou and Juanchich start from earlier suggestions that perceptual disfluency activates analytical processing and increases solution rates on problems with appealing but incorrect…
- Sisk (2018): To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement? Two Meta-Analyses
[abstract only; full text not retrieved, 2026-10-20] Sisk, V. F., Burgoyne, A. P., Sun, J., Butler, J. L., & Macnamara, B. N. (2018). 'To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth…
- Sivak (2004): Consequences for road traffic fatalities of the reduction in flying following September 11, 2001
Sivak and Flannagan re-evaluated an earlier estimate of the extra road deaths that followed the reduction in flying after 11 September 2001. Using the trend in road fatalities for January to August…
- Six-Hour Shifts Satisfied Kellogg: Six-Hour Shifts Satisfied Kellogg
Six-Hour Shifts Satisfied Kellogg. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Six-Hour Shifts Satisfied Kellogg's Appetite For Productivit: Six-Hour Shifts Satisfied Kellogg's Appetite For Productivity
InformationWeek reported that in 1930 Kellogg changed its Battle Creek, Michigan, cereal plant from three eight-hour shifts to four six-hour shifts and hired about 300 unemployed workers, with…
- Sjöblom (2017): Why do people watch others play video games? An empirical study on the motivations of Twitch users
Sjöblom and Hamari, Computers in Human Behavior 75, 2017, 985-996. Online questionnaire in early 2015, about 1,091 valid responses, 92 percent male, mean age about 23, mostly students, recruited via…
- Skiles (2022): Conference demographics and footprint changed by virtual platforms
[ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT READ AT SOURCE at a public repository: the abstract, the results, the figure legends and the competing-interests statement were read, and THE SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES WERE NOT READ]…
- Skinner (1948): ‘Superstition’ in the pigeon
Skinner reported that hungry pigeons fed at regular intervals, whatever they did, developed repeated routines, and read this as food strengthening whatever the bird was doing when it arrived.
- Slater (1965): Diagnosis of ‘hysteria’
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Slemp (2024): Interpersonal supports for basic psychological needs and their relations with motivation, well-being, and performance: A meta-analysis
Slemp, Field, Ryan, Forner, Van den Broeck and Lewis meta-analysed 4,561 effect sizes from 881 independent samples, 443,556 people in all, to test the claim of self-determination theory that support…
- Slepian (2015): The cognitive consequences of formal clothing
Five studies; action identification, category inclusiveness, global processing; mediation by felt power in Study 5.
- Sloan (2026): Sex and disease differences in patients
Online survey 7 December 2024 to 7 March 2025; 6,607 adults with clinically confirmed autoimmune or inflammatory rheumatic disease, 91.2 per cent female, 69.7 per cent UK, 87.8 per cent White…
- Sloan, M., Taylor, S., Cox, B., Naidu, K. K., Modi, R., Dime: Sloan, M., Taylor, S., Cox, B., Naidu, K. K., Modi, R., Diment, W., Tayabali, S., Piper, M., Brimicombe, J., Kaul, A., & D’Cruz, D
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Slovic (2000): Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Communication: The Effects of Using Actual Cases, Providing Instruction, and Employing Probability Versus Frequency Formats
Paul Slovic, John Monahan and Donald MacGregor mailed case summaries of hospitalised psychiatric patients to members of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law and asked them to estimate each…
- Slovic (2000): Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Communication: The Effects of Using Actual Cases, Providing Instruction, and Employing Probability Versus Frequency Formats
Slovic (2000), Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Communication: The Effects of Using Actual Cases, Providing Instruction, and Employing Probability Versus Frequency Formats, published in Law and…
- Smallwood (2021): The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective
Jonathan Smallwood and five colleagues review the default mode network as a set of widely distributed regions in parietal, temporal and frontal cortex. These regions often show reductions in…
- Smidts (2002): Kijken in het brein: Over de mogelijkheden van neuromarketing
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.