The Psychological Record articles

Recent articles from The Psychological Record

Reviving the Milgram obedience paradigm in the era of informed consent.(Stanley Milgram)(Report)
March 22, 2009... In the 1960s Stanley Milgram (1963, 1965a, 1965b, 2004) conducted a series of experiments that explored the conditions under which people could be induced to harm and potentially kill someone they did not know on the orders of a person who occupied a position of authority in a prestigious...

Does Stevens's power law for brightness extend to perceptual brightness averaging?(Report)
March 22, 2009... The relationship between the physical magnitude of a stimulus (e.g., luminance, weight, sound pressure) and the corresponding experienced magnitude (brightness, heaviness, loudness) has been the focus of intense scientific study since the founding of experimental psychology in the mid 19th...

Exclusion learning and emergent symbolic category formation in individuals with severe language impairments and intellectual disabilities.(Report)
March 22, 2009... A series of papers published over the last 10 years has described a theoretically inspired program of research to study lexical processes by bridging disciplinary boundaries between psycholinguistics, behavior analysis, and developmental disabilities research (Wilkinson, Dube, & McIlvane,...

Electrophysiological activity generated during the Implicit Association Test: a study using event-related potentials.(Report)
March 22, 2009... In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the use of so-called implicit methodologies across many different areas of psychology. Among the most influential of these is the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee, & Schwartz, 1998). The IAT involves presenting two...

Derived comparative and transitive relations in young children with and without autism.(Report)
March 22, 2009... The emergence of novel or untrained behavior has captured the attention of behavioral researchers since the 1970s because of its obvious implications for educational training (e.g., Sidman, 1971). Put simply, the emergence of educationally significant skills and the generalization of these...