The library
Correct names, honest evidence, ideas from other fields. At most four new pages a month, each written because a Review or a reader needed it.
Is the white coat a halo effect? Authority cues and official signals
In short: A detection page: how official cues bend survey answers; BNS 205
When it fails: Not yet written
The café queue is not the 25% tipping point
In short: Cascades vs Centola; the threshold moves with memory length
When it fails: Not yet written
Five models and a judge: an ensemble, not Bayes
In short: Condorcet: voting helps only if each voter beats chance and errors are independent
When it fails: Not yet written
Weekly vision recitals and the build trap
In short: Killed by analysis: its test measures recall, but the failure is surrogation
When it fails: Not yet written
The build trap is surrogation, not forgetting
In short: Read it with page 4
When it fails: Not yet written
Default effects: the published size and the size at scale
In short: 8.7 vs 1.4 percentage points
When it fails: Not yet written
Survivorship vs selection bias: Wald without the fable
In short: A mutual-fund example of survivorship bias
When it fails: Not yet written
Two different "two-minute rules," and implementation intentions
In short: Allen's triage rule vs Clear's habit-start rule
When it fails: Not yet written
Descriptive-norm leakage: signs that advertise what they forbid
In short: Cialdini's littering studies
When it fails: Not yet written
Implementation intentions: the lab effect and the field effect
In short: If-then plans, with field-sized effects
When it fails: Not yet written
Queues as signals: information cascades, and why they break
In short: Cascades are fragile
When it fails: Not yet written
Parkinson's Law is satire: what deadline research shows
In short: The 1955 essay was satire; what deadline research shows
When it fails: Not yet written
Oreo didn't win on its name
In short: Several causes, weights unknown
When it fails: Not yet written
Paying more makes it taste better, and that isn't status
In short: Expectation effects split from Veblen signalling
When it fails: Not yet written
The decoy effect, and where it disappears
In short: Where the decoy effect disappears
When it fails: Not yet written
Bin distance and littering
In short: Bin distance and litter: lore versus evidence
When it fails: Not yet written
Watching eyes: two literatures, decay, and the nazar question
In short: Antisocial acts fall about 35%; generosity effects mostly null
When it fails: Not yet written
Mental accounting and round-ups
In short: The mechanism behind round-ups (page 23)
When it fails: Not yet written
Peak-end: a memory effect, not a checkout trick
In short: With its limits
When it fails: Not yet written
Spacing and retrieval practice
In short: Two effects that combine
When it fails: Not yet written
Friction as a brake on loops you want to stop
In short: A brake, not a lever
When it fails: Not yet written
Rat Park, the replication fight, and the 2018 social-choice studies
In short: A contested study and its replication fight
When it fails: Not yet written
Kirana toffee to UPI round-ups: localizing a known mechanic
In short: A known mechanic, localized: an open hypothesis
When it fails: Not yet written
Watching eyes to online exams: probably dead
In short: A proposed test: disclosed monitoring versus monitoring plus eyes
When it fails: Not yet written
Wald's missing planes to churn interviews
In short: Interview churned customers, not only retained ones
When it fails: Not yet written
Wicked learning environments: why a founder's experience teaches the wrong lesson
In short: Why experience can teach the wrong lesson
When it fails: Not yet written