Introducing Psychological Research: Sixty Studies that Shape Psychology

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-4
Eight out of Ten Owners Said Their Cats Preferred It....Pages 5-10
Helping Behaviour....Pages 11-16
Be a Good Boy and Do as You are Told....Pages 17-23
Is She Really Going out with Him?....Pages 25-32
I’m Not Prejudiced, But .......Pages 33-36
Changing our Minds....Pages 37-43
The Prison Simulation....Pages 45-50
Behaviour in Groups....Pages 51-56
The Robber’s Cave....Pages 59-64
The Jigsaw Technique....Pages 65-68
The Minimal Group Studies....Pages 69-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-78
The Flight of the Killer Pigeons....Pages 79-83
Learning to be Helpless....Pages 84-88
Talking to the Animals....Pages 89-93
A Brain of two Halves....Pages 96-102
How do You Feel?....Pages 103-109
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream....Pages 110-115
The Colony of Monkeys....Pages 118-122
A Fishy Tale....Pages 123-128
Rat City: The Behavioural Sink....Pages 129-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-138
Girls Just Want to have Fun....Pages 139-142
Learning to Fail....Pages 143-149
Rites of Passage....Pages 150-155
Measuring Masculinity and Femininity....Pages 157-163
How Gullible are You?....Pages 164-169
Mis-Measuring Intelligence....Pages 171-177
Black Dolls and White Dolls....Pages 178-182
Black Identity....Pages 183-188
You Don’t have to be Mad to Work Here. You Don’t Even have to be Mad to be in Here .......Pages 191-196
Shrink Wrapped: The Choice of Therapist....Pages 197-201
The Three Faces of Eve....Pages 202-207
Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow....Pages 208-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-218
Can You Hear Me Mother?....Pages 219-222
Family Life....Pages 223-228
Emotional Deprivation....Pages 229-232
The Moral Principle of Justice....Pages 235-239
The Moral Principle of Care....Pages 240-245
Bashing Bobo....Pages 246-252
I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl, that Married Dear Old Dad....Pages 254-260
Piaget’s Cognitive Approach....Pages 261-267
Front Matter....Pages 215-218
The Tale of Little Albert....Pages 268-274
The Dance of the Neonates....Pages 277-283
Listen with Mother....Pages 284-288
Talking Proper....Pages 289-293
Front Matter....Pages 295-298
Remembering Pictures....Pages 299-304
Eyewitness Testimony....Pages 305-309
Models of Memory....Pages 310-316
Walking Off a Cliff....Pages 319-323
Why Did the Antelope Cross the Road?....Pages 324-330
Will the Real Ralph Richardson Please Stand Up....Pages 331-337
Autism and Theories of Mind....Pages 340-344
I’m Sorry Dave, I Can’t Do that....Pages 345-349
Front Matter....Pages 351-354
Life is Stress....Pages 355-359
Stress? I Can Handle It!....Pages 360-366
Aids and Uncertainty....Pages 367-372
Type A or Not Type A....Pages 375-380
In Control....Pages 381-386
Where Does It Hurt?....Pages 387-392
Front Matter....Pages 393-401
Demand Characteristics....Pages 395-401
Dull Rats and Bright Rats....Pages 402-407
Front Matter....Pages 393-401
Teachers’ Bloomers....Pages 408-412
Who are Psychology’s Subjects?....Pages 413-418
Discourse Analysis....Pages 419-425
A Repertory Grid Study of Managers....Pages 426-432
Back Matter....Pages 433-506