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Groups the atlas's landmark psychological studies and experiments, the empirical work the field's theories rest on or that itself became historically significant, subdivided by the branch of psychology each study is principally associated with. It deliberately excludes the theory or concept a study tested or produced, filed under theories and concepts instead, and includes studies whose findings later failed to replicate, named honestly as part of the field's own replication crisis rather than omitted.

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Ainsworth's Strange Situation

Developmental Psychology

Aronson's Jigsaw Classroom Study

Social Psychology

Asch's Conformity Experiments

Social Psychology

Baillargeon's Violation-of-Expectation Infant Studies

Developmental Psychology

Bartlett's War of the Ghosts Experiment

Cognitive Psychology

Baumrind's Parenting Styles Study

Developmental Psychology

Bowlby's Forty-Four Juvenile Thieves Study

Developmental Psychology

Buss's Thirty-Seven Cultures Mate Preference Study

Evolutionary Psychology

Bystander Effect Experiments

Social Psychology

Darley and Batson's Good Samaritan Experiment

Social Psychology

Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve Experiments

Cognitive Psychology

Ekman's Cross-Cultural Facial Expression Studies

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Facilitated Communication Studies

Clinical Psychology

Festinger and Carlsmith's $1/$20 Experiment

Social Psychology

Garcia and Koelling's Taste Aversion Experiments

Behavioral Psychology

Godden and Baddeley's Context-Dependent Memory Experiment

Cognitive Psychology

Harlow's Rhesus Monkey Experiments

Developmental Psychology

Hawthorne Studies

Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Hubel and Wiesel's Visual Cortex Experiments

Biological Psychology

Implicit Association Test Studies

Social Psychology

Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

Cognitive Psychology

Kassin and Kiechel's False Confession Experiment

Forensic Psychology

Kohlberg's Moral Development Studies

Developmental Psychology

Köhler's Insight Learning Experiments

Comparative Psychology

Latane and Darley's Smoke-Filled Room Experiment

Social Psychology

Learned Helplessness Experiments

Clinical Psychology

Loftus and Palmer's Car Crash Experiment

Cognitive Psychology

Lost in the Mall Experiment

Cognitive Psychology

Milgram's Obedience Experiments

Social Psychology

Miller's Magical Number Seven Experiments

Cognitive Psychology

Newcomb's Bennington College Study

Social Psychology

Olds and Milner's Brain Stimulation Reward Experiments

Biological Psychology

Pavlov's Dog Experiments

Behavioral Psychology

Piaget's Conservation Experiments

Developmental Psychology

Piliavin's Subway Samaritan Study

Social Psychology

Pygmalion in the Classroom

Educational Psychology

Rat Park Experiment

Biological Psychology

Reproducibility Project: Psychology

Quantitative Psychology

Ringelmann's Rope-Pulling Experiments

Social Psychology

Robbers Cave Experiment

Social Psychology

Rosenhan Experiment

Clinical Psychology

Sally-Anne Test

Developmental Psychology

Schachter and Singer's Epinephrine Experiment

Social Psychology

Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome Experiments

Health Psychology

Sherif's Autokinetic Effect Experiments

Social Psychology

Simons and Chabris's Invisible Gorilla Experiment

Cognitive Psychology

Skinner Box Experiments

Behavioral Psychology

Smith and Glass's Psychotherapy Outcome Meta-Analysis

Counseling Psychology

Sperling's Iconic Memory Experiment

Cognitive Psychology

Sperry and Gazzaniga's Split-Brain Experiments

Biological Psychology

Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

Developmental Psychology

Stanford Prison Experiment

Social Psychology

Still Face Experiment

Developmental Psychology

Stroop Effect Experiments

Cognitive Psychology

Tajfel's Minimal Group Experiments

Social Psychology

The Bobo Doll Experiment

Behavioral Psychology

The Case of Anna O.

Clinical Psychology

The Case of Genie

Developmental Psychology

The Case of Henry Molaison (H.M.)

Biological Psychology

The Case of Little Hans

Clinical Psychology

The Case of Phineas Gage

Biological Psychology

The Little Albert Experiment

Behavioral Psychology

The Little Peter Experiment

Behavioral Psychology

The Midtown Manhattan Study

Community Psychology

The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart

Personality Psychology

The Western Collaborative Group Study

Health Psychology

The Whitehall Studies

Health Psychology

Thorndike's Puzzle Box Experiments

Behavioral Psychology

Tolman's Cognitive Map Experiments

Cognitive Psychology

Triplett's Cycling Experiments

Sport and Exercise Psychology

Visual Cliff Experiment

Developmental Psychology

Wason Selection Task

Cognitive Psychology
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1. Wikipedia: PsycINFO
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The classification system consists of 22 major categories and 135 subcategories, and a list of codes.
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Wikipedia: Conservation (Psychology)
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Wikipedia: Cognitive dissonance
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