10 Weird Psychology Studies

Over the last two weeks, we have had the "Ten Most Revealing Psychological Experiments" and the "Top Unethical Experiments in Psychology". We end the experimental methods section of our Midnight Postings with a post from Great Britain's PsyBlog (http://www.spring.org.uk/) entitled "10 Weird Psychology Studies". In December of 2007, PsyBlog listed ten psychological studies which they declared as "weird" and had their readers vote on which they believe to be the worst.

The complete listing of "weird" studies can be found at http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/12/10-weird-psychology-studies-vote-now.php

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Experimental Resources.com

Experiment-Resources.com is a website detailing scientific method, research and experiments. The site includes almost every aspect of psychological research, including statistics and writing research papers, with descriptions of some of the most famous social psychological experiments including:

• Milgram's Obedience study
• Zimbardo's Prison Study
• Asch's Study on Conformity
• Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment
• Helping Behavior Experiment

In addition to the above experiments, psychology students might want to check out Mendel's study with peas and identical twin studies in the biology section.

While it does not appear the website is sponsored by any academic institution or organization, the limited sections I explored appear to be accurate and well written. Please feel free to leave your impressions of the site in the comments section.

The site can be found at http://www.experiment-resources.com/index.html

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Top Unethical Experiments in Psychology

In my searching the internet, I came across this listing of the top ten unethical psychological experiments. The list includes many experiments (Standford Prison, Milgram's Obedience, Baby Albert, etc.) that are discussed in almost every psychology course. Throughout my research, while the listing is on a number of websites and blogs, I was unable to determine the author.

The list can be found at http://mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com/2008/11/top-unethical-psychological-experiments.html and might make an interesting discussion tool for ethical research.

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