Comments on: Unusual Research in Psychology

By: nickstryker@gmail.com

nickstryker@gmail.com — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:07:00 +0000

I'm a performing arts student and am willing to assist in any way with your research. Rosenhan's experiment is one that I have been very fascinated with since I became a college student.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:06:00 +0000

Psychology Today has a top ten of unusual ideas that have been completely or partly discredited. The worrying thing is that a lot of these are still strong in the popular consciousness.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:32:00 +0000

There's a whole load of good stuff on the Skepdic site:

"Psychologist B.R. Forer found that people tend to accept vague and general personality descriptions as uniquely applicable to themselves without realizing that the same description could be applied to just about anyone."

This is often known as the 'Barnum' effect after the circus man P.T. Barnum.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:32:00 +0000

There's the research that won the Ig Nobel award for psychology. They won for "...demonstrating that when people pay close attention to something, it's all too easy to overlook anything else -- even a woman in a gorilla suit."

Here's the link: Ig Nobel