I think one of the most clever, and probably little known, studies in developmental psychology is Hodkin's study on class inclusion. She develops a very simple model to estimate the rate at which children guess and shows that if we do not take guessing into account that we can make spurious inferences.
Hodkin, B. (1987). Performance model analysis in class inclusion: An illustration with two language conditions. Developmental Psychology, 23, 683-689. Joe Joseph J. Horton Ph. D. Faculty Box 2694 Grove City College Grove City, PA 16127 (724) 458-2004 In God we trust, all others must bring data. -----Original Message----- From: Traci Giuliano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:44 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Top 10 "Sexy" studies (methodologically speaking) in psychology 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 -- \\|||// ( o o ) -------------o00-(_)-00o------------------ Traci A. Giuliano Associate Professor of Psychology Southwestern University Georgetown, TX 78627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (512) 863-1596;fax (512) 863-1846 http://www.southwestern.edu/~giuliant -------------------------------------------- --- 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]
