Thanks!
Traci
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]
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Southwestern University
Georgetown, TX 78627
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