16) Simonsohn (2012) "It Does Not Follow: Evaluating the
One-Off Publication Bias Critiques by Francis
(2012a,b,c,d,e,f), Perspectives
on Psychological Science, V7(6), 597-599
(.pdf)
The critiques are cherry
picked, and ignoring evidence is not a justified conclusion
from the presence of publication bias.
15) Simmons, Nelson, Simonsohn
(2011) "False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection
and Analysis Allow Presenting Anything as Significant", Psychological Science,
V22(11), 1359-1366 (SSRN)
(Code) (Data)
Logical argument,
experimental demonstration, and simulations showing that if a
set of disclosure requirements we propose are not followed,
results in experiments are uninterpretable.
14) Saiz & Simonsohn (2013) "Proxying for
Unobservable Variables with Internet Document Frequency", Journal
of the European Economic Association, V11(1), 137-165 [DATA]
(pdf)
Frequency of Internet documents
about X proxies for frequency of X; using insight we replicate
published studies predicting corruption.d
13) Simonsohn
(2011) "Spurious Also? Name Similarity Effects (Implicit
Egotism) in Employer Decisions," Psychological
Science, V22(8),
1087-1089 (SSRN)
People disproportionately
work for companies with which they share an initial. Probably
a spurious correlation.
12) Simonsohn (2011)
"Spurious? Name Similarity Effects (Implicit Egotism) in
Marriage, Job, and Moving Decisions", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, V101(1)
1-24 (SSRN)
Three JPSP papers find that
people disproportionately choose spouses, places to live and
occupations with names similar to their own. Analyzing the
same and additional data I find that the existing evidence is
spurious.
note: Pelham and Carvallo wrote a rebuttal to
this paper. Here is my 5-page rejoinder titled "In
Defense of Diligence".
11) Pope, Simonsohn (2011) "Round Numbers as Goals:
Evidence from Baseball, SAT Takers, and the Lab", Psychological Science, January, V22(1), 71-79 (.pdf)
When
performance is measured numerically, round numbers become
implicit goals that strongly influence behavior around them.
10) Simonsohn (2011) "Lessons from an Oops at Consumer Reports:
Consumer Follow Experts; Ignore Invalid Information", Journal of Marketing Research,
February V48(1) 1-12 (.pdf)
Consumer Reports released
& then retracted info on carseat safety. Surprisingly,
people successfully ignored the retracted information.
9) Simonsohn, (2010) "eBay's Crowded Evenings: Competition
Neglect in Market Entry Decisions", Management Science, V56(7), 1060-1073 (.pdf)
Too many sellers end their
auctions at peak time, so they lose money.
8) Simonsohn, (2010) "Weather to Go to College", Economic Journal (.pdf)
More prospective college
students enroll after visiting campus on cloudy day.
7) Simonsohn, (2009) "Direct-Risk-Aversion: Evidence from
Risky Prospects Valued Below Their Worst Outcome" Psychological Science,
V20(6) 686-692 (.pdf)
People value lotteries less
than their worst outcome due to uncertainty; not confusion or
"joint-evaluation."
6) Small & Simonsohn (2008) "Friends of Victims:
Personal Experience and Prosocial Behavior." Journal of Consumer Research,
V35 532-542 (.pdf)
[raw
data]
Donors give more to
charities helping the misfortune of someone they know.
5) Simonsohn, & Ariely (2008) "When Rational
Sellers Face Non-Rational Consumers: Evidence from Herding on
eBay," Management Science V54(9)
1624-1637 (.pdf)
eBay bidders choose
auctions with more bids, so sellers start them cheap.
4) Simonsohn, Karlsson, Loewenstein, and Ariely (2008) "The
Tree of Experience in the Forest of Information: Overweighing
Experienced Relative to Observed Information" Games and Economic Behavior,
V62, 263-286 (.pdf)
People respond more to
information that affected them directly.
3) Simonsohn, (2007) "Clouds Make Nerds Look Good: Field
Evidence of the Influence of Incidental Factors on Decision
Making", Journal of Behavioral
Decision Making, V20(2) 143-152 (.pdf)
College applicants'
academic attributes are weighted more if evaluated on cloudy
days.
2) Simonsohn & Loewenstein (2006) "Mistake #37: The
Impact of Previously Faced Prices on Housing Demand," Economic Journal, V116(1)
175-199 (.pdf)
Movers from more expensive
cities rent more expensive apartments, at first.
1) Simonsohn (2006) "New-Yorkers Commute More Everywhere:
Contrast Effects in the Field," Review of Economics and Statistics, V88(1) 1-9
(.pdf)
Movers from
cities with longer commutes live further from work, at first.