Tuesday, 10 February 2015

New Database of Psychological Experiments

Are you incorporating psychological experiment results into your research? You might find some interesting results in Psychological Experiments Online. YSJ recently began a subscription to this database, which describes itself as
"a multimedia collection of over thirty important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the Stanford Prison Experiment, Pavlov's dogs, Halo effect and the Bystander effect. The database includes video clips, website links, interviews with psychologists, suggestions for classroom activities and access to supporting theories and literature."
The Bobo Doll  Experiment. Image taken from Psychological Experments Online.
I find the database fascinating, even if it has (as yet) has no bearing on my own research. Beware, you may start clicking on the collection relating to Albert Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment of 1961 (which 'demonstrated that children will model their behaviors on those they have seen even without any reinforcement or encouragement') and find you've spent an hour unexpectedly exploring the study of aggression in humans. Ooops. Enjoy.

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