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Event construal and temporal distance in natural language
Construal level theory proposes that events that are temporally proximate are represented more concretely than events that are temporally distant. We tested this prediction... -
Decision making in environments with non-independent dimensions, experimental...
This paper tests whether the dimensions involved in preferential choice tasks are evaluated independently from one another. Common decision heuristics satisfy dimensional... -
The dynamics of deferred decision, experimental data
Decision makers are often unable to choose between the options that they are offered. In these settings they typically defer their decision, that is, delay the decision to a... -
Discrimination in the laboratory: A meta-analysis of economics experiments
Economists are increasingly using experiments to study and measure discrimination between groups. In a meta-analysis containing 441 results from 77 studies, we find groups... -
Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical a...
Social preferences and social influence effects (“peer effects”) are well documented, but little is known about how peers shape social preferences. Settings where social... -
Consumer trust and traceability focus groups and survey
Using a purposive sampling method at four locations across the UK, participants were invited by a marketing company to attend one of eight scheduled focus groups sessions... -
Religion, discrimination and trust across three cultures
We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation... -
Low-frequency oscillations employ a general coding of the spatio-temporal sim...
These data describe a combined magnetoencephalography (MEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioural study. With these data we investigated how brain... -
1851 England and Wales census parishes, townships and places
This GIS shapefile provides boundary and attribute data for the parishes and places enumerated in the 1851 census for England and Wales. These data derive from the 173 digital... -
International health cooperation in the Greater Mekong Subregion
As part of this project, three datasets were compiled: (1) a systematic collection of international health programmes for the prevention and control of infectious diseases in... -
Combining 'real effort' with induced effort costs: The ball-catching task
We introduce the “ball-catching task”, a novel computerized task, which combines a tangible action (“catching balls”) with induced material cost of effort. The central feature... -
Lives Sentenced: Life history interviews with men and women who have experien...
The data consists of 17 interview transcripts from the second round of Lives Sentenced research. Interviews with six incarcerated men, five men in the community, five... -
The hearing body: Experimental data, Part 8
People’s mental representations of their own body are malleable and continuously updated through sensory cues. Altering one’s body-representation can lead to changes in object... -
Interview data from 'New norms and forms of development'
This data contains findings of the study on outsourcing of external development assistance in maternal and child health (MCH) in Malawi and Nepal. It outlines the institutional... -
Anna Racoon blog copy
This data was gathered by harvesting data from the internet. It is the blog of Anna Racoon. The data is presented as is from the website and may need specialised web knowledge... -
Making provisions: Anticipation in the UK food system
The data consists of interview transcripts and fieldnotes, detailing aspects of anticipatory activity (the management of futures) in the UK food system, according to a variety... -
Children's play, war toys, and geopolitics
The data deposited here consists of four main types of data generated by the project; (1) Transcripts of a series of interviews undertaken with those working in the toy trade -... -
Digital Wildfire project: Delphi panel on the responsible governance of socia...
Transcripts of fieldwork interviews with professionals involved in the governance of social media communications. These interviews involve professionals revealing how the... -
Household-level agricultural inputs-outputs, off-farm income and wild-harvest...
This data collection consists of primary dataset with accompanying documents for ''Agricultural inputs-outputs and off-farm income' and 'Wild-harvested products' segments of the... -
Characterising emotion regulation development in adolescence
The dataset comprises experimental data from several studies investigating the development of emotion regulation during adolescence, and the relation between emotion regulation...
