Oh, good to know. Are you aware of more details? Replications or critiques of those studies? (As I said, I came across them in pop-sci books.)
Two published replication studies (used for retractions) can be found here:
https://cisermgmt.cornell.edu/go/PHPs/catalogSingleStudy.php...
https://cisermgmt.cornell.edu/go/PHPs/catalogSingleStudy.php...