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From: Beth Benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 6:16 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Subject: Re: AP Psych books



One argument you might use is that, as a rule of thumb, most research
papers
are considered unacceptable if their citations refer to a source older
than
10 years, unless the source is a classic like Freud, Milgram, etc.






I've heard this rule of thumb before, and I'm wondering where it came
from and why. I cite things more than ten years old all the time, and
just about every research paper I read does the same. Lots of relevant
(and non-classic) research is more than ten years old. I'd be curious as
to how many TIPSters use this rule in their research methods classes.

Marty Bourgeois
University of Wyoming

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