procedures (paper 1)

Maguire

MRI scans compared London taxi drivers to matched controls; pixel counting and voxel-based morphometry used.

Draganski

Non-jugglers scanned → assigned to juggling/non-juggling groups → jugglers practiced → scanned again after training and after 3 months.

Rogers & Kesner

Rats injected with scopolamine or saline before maze task; errors recorded during encoding and retrieval.

Ronay & Von Hippel

Male skateboarders asked to perform tricks in front of attractive female vs male experimenter; saliva samples measured testosterone.

Caspi

5-HTT gene variation tested in 1000+ participants → stressful life events recorded → depression assessed longitudinally.

Zhou

Participants watched “stick figure walking” task while exposed to AND/EST or control solution.

Meaney

Rats handled differently (groomed vs neglected) → hormone levels and maze performance measured.

Brunner

Genetic analysis and behavioural assessment of affected family members.

Brewer & Treyens

Participants recalled items from an office (schema-consistent vs inconsistent).

Murdock

Participants memorized and recalled word lists of varying lengths and speeds.

Landry & Bartling

Participants performed recall of letters while engaging in articulatory suppression (repeating numbers).

Englich & Mussweiler

Judges given low vs high sentencing anchors and asked to set sentence.

Sharot

9/11 survivors scanned with fMRI while recalling 9/11 vs summer vacation.

Loftus & Pickrell

Family members provided false childhood story; participants interviewed about memories.

Bandura

Children observed adult models behaving aggressively/non-aggressively with Bobo doll; later placed with doll themselves.

Harris & Fiske

Participants shown images of different social groups while undergoing fMRI.

Steele & Aronson

African American and White students took tests framed as diagnostic or non-diagnostic.

Fagot

Parents observed interacting with children at home; behaviours coded.

Lueck & Wilson

Interviews conducted with 2000+ Asian immigrants/Asian Americans on acculturative stress.

Berry

Participants from three cultures given Asch-type conformity line test.

Wedekind

Men wore T-shirts for 2 nights; women smelled shirts and rated attractiveness.

Ditzen

Couples discussed conflict under oxytocin vs placebo; cortisol and behaviour recorded.