Studies (page 99)
- Spence (2015): On the psychological impact of food colour
Spence (2015), On the psychological impact of food colour. Cited in 1 article on this site.
- Spence (2022): Visual communication via the design of food and beverage packaging
Spence and Van Doorn review the connotative and semiotic meanings consumers associate with features of food and beverage packaging such as colour, simple shapes and orientation. Some responses…
- Sperandei (2016): Adherence to physical activity in an unsupervised setting: Explanatory variables for high attrition rates among fitness center members
Sperandei, Vieira and Reis analysed retrospective records of 5,240 members of a fitness centre in Rio de Janeiro, joining between January 2005 and June 2014, each followed for up to 12 months or…
- Sphere Entertainment (2026): Sphere Entertainment Co. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Results
This is another company disclosure cited as industry data. Sphere Entertainment reported that its Las Vegas venue took around 379 million dollars from approximately 1.7 million tickets across 2025…
- Spiegel (1989): Effect of psychosocial treatment on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer
[COMPOSITE ENTRY FOR THE CANCER CLAIM AS TRACED, keyed by its first-named item because the source carries several studies. NOT ONE OF THE STUDIES IN THIS ENTRY WAS READ AT SOURCE. The figures…
- Sprecher (2015): The benefits of turn-taking reciprocal self-disclosure in get-acquainted interactions
turn-taking dyads reported greater attraction than sequentially disclosing dyads, especially after the first interaction; responsiveness, enjoyment and perceived liking mediated the link.
- Spurk (2016): Do bad guys get ahead or fall behind? Relationships of the Dark Triad of personality with objective and subjective career success
Daniel Spurk, Anita Keller and Andreas Hirschi ask whether people high in the dark triad get ahead or fall behind at work. They studied early-career employees in Germany, a sample representative for…
- Staddon (1971): The ‘superstition’ experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior
Staddon and Simmelhag repeated and extended the pigeon superstition procedure. They found interim activities soon after food, which varied between birds, and a terminal response later in the…
- Stafford (2013): Did the eyes really stare down bicycle crime in Newcastle?
Tom Stafford's column examines the Newcastle bicycle-stealing study and asks whether the eyes caused the drop in thefts. He raises four concerns: there was no control sign carrying the message…
- Stanford Center on Longevity (2014): A Consensus on the Brain Training Industry from the Scientific Community
The statement, dated 20 October 2014, says cognitive training produces statistically significant improvement in practised skills, that compelling evidence of general and enduring positive effects…
- Stanford News (2017): Decadent-sounding descriptions could lead to higher consumption of vegetables, Stanford research finds
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Starr-McCluer (2000): The Effects of Weather on Retail Sales
Martha Starr-McCluer tests the view that weather explains monthly swings in consumer spending. Her model treats weather as a change in how productive time is for shopping and recreation, which…
- Stasser (1985): Pooling of Unshared Information in Group Decision Making: Biased Information Sampling During Discussion
Stasser and Titus tested a biased sampling model of group discussion in a simulated political caucus. Participants read candidate profiles whose partial information made the objectively strongest…
- Staw (1976): Knee-deep in the big muddy: a study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action
Staw's study gave the field escalation of commitment. Business students allocated research funding to one division of a company, were told their decision had gone badly or well, and were then given…
- Steel (2007): The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulatory failure
Steel reviewed conceptual, theoretical and empirical research on procrastination and meta-analysed 691 correlations. Neuroticism, rebelliousness and sensation seeking had only weak links to…
- Steele (1988): The psychology of self-affirmation: Sustaining the integrity of the self
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Steele (2014): Failure to replicate the Mehta and Zhu (2009) color-priming effect on anagram solution times
No abstract could be found for this paper, so this page does not summarise it.
- Steenkamp (2003): How perceived brand globalness creates brand value
Steenkamp, Batra and Alden ask why some consumers prefer global brands to local ones, using consumer data from the United States and Korea. Perceived brand globalness was positively related to…
- Stein (2019): Evaluating the validity of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator theory: A teaching tool and window into intuitive psychology
Stein and Swan offer a teaching reference on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, noting that despite its popularity and longevity it has sat apart from mainstream social and personality psychology…
- Steindl (2015): Understanding Psychological Reactance: New Developments and Findings
Steindl first author. A review of reactance research published since 2006. The moderator it foregrounds is which freedom is threatened: people with an independent self-construal react to threats to…