The following is a list of research articles by NYU faculty that make scientific claims on the basis of

human data. If you opt for the Read-Write option for satisfying the Introductory Psychology Research
Requirement, select three articles to read. You will need to write a two page report on the articles you
select. If the article reports data from more than one experiment, focus on only one experiment –
preferably the first.

You may choose from any area of psychology, but these are sorted into groups.

Cognition and Perception

Brielmann AA & Pelli DG (2017) Beauty requires thought. Current Biology 27(10): 1513.e3.

Denison R, Heeger D & Carrasco M (2017) Attention flexibly trades off across points in time. Psychon
Bull Rev 24(4): 1142-1151.

Dunsmoor JE & Murphy GL (2014) Stimulus typicality determines how broadly fear is generalized.
Psychological Science 25(9): 1816-1821.

Goedert KM, Ellefson MR & Rehder B (2014) Differences in the weighting and choice of evidence for
plausible versus implausible causes. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and
Cognition 40(3): 683-702.

Martin AE & McElree B (2018) Retrieval cues and syntactic ambiguity resolution: Speed-accuracy
tradeoff evidence. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 33(6): 769-783.

Norton EH, Fleming SM, Daw ND & Landy MS (2017) Suboptimal criterion learning in static and dynamic
environments. PLoS Computational Biology 13(1): e1005304.

Sun P & Landy MS (2016) A two-stage process model of sensory discrimination: An alternative to drift-
diffusion. The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
36(44): 11259-11274.

Witthoft N, Sha L, Winawer J & Kiani R (2018) Sensory and decision-making processes underlying
perceptual adaptation. Journal of Vision 18(8): 10.

van Opheusden B, Bnaya Z, Galbiati G & Ma WJ (2016) in Computers and Games - 9th International
Conference, CG 2016, (Springer Verlag, pp 212-224.
Developmental Psychology

Cole WG, Lingeman JM & Adolph KE (2012) Go naked: Diapers affect infant walking. Developmental
Science 15(6): 783-790.

Kretch KS, Franchak JM & Adolph KE (2014) Crawling and walking infants see the world differently. Child
Development 85(4): 1503-1518.

Ossmy O, et al (2018) Variety wins: Soccer-playing robots and infant walking. Frontiers in Neurorobotics
12: 19.

Social Psychology

Brady WJ, Wills JA, Jost JT, Tucker JA & Van Bavel JJ (2017) Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized
content in social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America 114(28): 7313-7318.

Haynes MC & Heilman ME (2013) It had to be you (not me)!: Women's attributional rationalization of
their contribution to successful joint work outcomes. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin
39(7): 956.

Shimizu Y, Lee H & Uleman JS (2017) Culture as automatic processes for making meaning: Spontaneous
trait inferences. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 69: 79-85.

Shrout PE, et al (2018) Initial elevation bias in subjective reports. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences of the United States of America 115(1): E23.

Stern C, West TV, Jost JT & Rule NO (2013) The politics of gaydar: Ideological differences in the use of
gendered cues in categorizing sexual orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
104(3): 520-541.

Todorov A & Uleman JS (2002) Spontaneous trait inferences are bound to actors' faces: Evidence from a
false recognition paradigm. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 83(5): 1051-1065.

Xu Q & Shrout PE (2018) Accuracy and bias in perception of distress level and distress change among
same-sex college student roommate dyads. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44(6):
899-913.