Wallace may have been too humble to mention this, but his list is available in book form, in a wonderful piece titled
"Twenty Studies That Revolutionized Child Psychology" (Prentice Hall) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130415723/qid=1043166096/sr=8 -2/ref=sr_8_2/102-8683861-5161711?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Paul Smith Alverno College Milwaukee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wallace Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:55 AM Subject: Re: Top 10 "Sexy" studies (methodologically speaking) in psychology > Traci, > As part of my research on the Most Outstanding Studies in Child > Psychology, I collected data on a subgroup of studies classified as the > "Most Fascinating" Studies in Child Psychology. So I can give you a sense > of what the subdiscipline of child psychology thinks is "fascinating," > although I'm not sure if that's the same thing as "sexy" or "clever." > > Among the most fascinating studies in child psychology (paraphrased), but > not in any particular order are: > > 1) Baillargeon's work on object permanence in 3.5 and 4.5 month old infants. > 2) Campos, Langer, & Krowitz (1970) piece on "Cardiac responses on the > visual cliff in prelocomotor human infants" > 3) DeCasper & Spence's work on prenatal memory (the cat in the hat study) > 4) Deloache et al.'s incredibly fascinating work on the Credible Shrinking > Room, dealing with children's understanding of dual representations > 5) Gibson & Walk's (of course) visual cliff study > 6) Harlow & Harlow monkey stuff > 7) Melzoff's imitation of facial gestures > 8) Rovee-Collier's conjugate reinforcement stuff (shaking the mobile > studies) > 9) Wynn's research on "Addition and subtraction by human infants" > 10) and Bandura's bobo doll studies (which may overlap with your own list of > clever social psychology studies) > > I can give you specific references if you want, but I paraphrased here to > save time. > > Wally Dixon > > P.S. I also have a list of the Twenty Most Controversial Studies in Child > Psychology, if you're interested. > > On 1/21/03 10:44 AM, "Traci Giuliano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Tipsters, > > > > I'm working on developing an assignment for my research methods > > course. The idea is to present students with a list of > > methodologically "sexy" (i.e., clever) studies in psychology, and ask > > each student to locate the article, review it, and briefly present it > > to class. (Besides increasing their article-reading and presentation > > skills, this would expose students, in a relatively short amount of > > time, to a variety of different methods and important findings in > > psychology). > > > > Ideally, I'd like a broad cross-section of articles from all areas of > > psychology and using many different kind of methods (e.g., > > observational, correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, > > archival, etc.). As a social psychologist, however, my own list is > > very heavily experimental and very heavily from social. I was hoping > > that if some of you would write in with your own "Top 5", "Top 10" or > > short list of favorites, I (and anyone else who is interested) would > > be able to come up with a pretty compelling list. For this list, I > > think that "classic" articles would be great (i.e., those that have > > had an important impact on the field), but I'd also be interested in > > recent articles that are "soon/someday to be classic". In addition, > > I'd love to hear about any study that is _particularly_ clever, > > classic or not. > > > > Thanks, and I look forward to the responses! (I can forsee getting > > lots of personal "please post to the list" inquiries, so if you would > > answer to the general list using the same title, that would be great). > > > > Cheers, > > Traci > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
