Most compelling journal article?

[JockNerd]

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So... I made it through most of my summer reading list. All I have left is a structural equation modeling book that I don't care to touch for a few more weeks.

In order to help put that off a little, and give everyone some fun reading material, what's your favorite journal article? Put something up that's really close to the work you do and maybe we can all get to know each other a little better (ok, I'm just starved for reading material).

I'll start us off:
Davison, G. C. (1976). Homosexuality: The ethical challenge. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 44, 157-162.

Davison, who used to conduct sexual orientation change therapy in the middle of the century at the request of his patients, changes his mind about the need for the therapy. He comes up with some really interesting thoughts about the nature of sexuality, and the interaction between the influence of society and difficulties in functioning.

 

[danzgymn86]

Television, disordered eating, and young women in fiji: negotiating body image and identity during rapid social change. Becker, Anne E., Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, 28, 533-559

It's a pretty classic study in investigating the social learning of eating disorders by Western mass media.

 

[Duckygirl]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...

GLUCOCORTICOIDS!
iAdios, phobic fear! If you guys haven't read this stuff, you ought to. I think this is amazing progress in the treatment of phobias and has some interesting implications for the solidification of long term memory as well. Please read on; Soravia et al. (2006) from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences's website:

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/103/14/5585#BIBL

Hope you guys like it.

 

[Ollie123]

Abramson, Lyn Y., Alloy, Lauren B., Metalsky, Gerald I. (1989) Hopelessness Depression: A Theory-Based Subtype of Depression

Not exactly my area, but one of the first papers that got me seriously interested in mood disorders research, its kind of expanding off the learned helplessness model that Seligman used (I believe Abramson and Alloy both studied with him). They are my research idols😉

I've since moved more into the emotion/physiology realm, but this is one of those papers that every time I flip through I come up with 1000000 new studies I want to do.

On a related note, I love this board. Anywhere else, I get weird looks if people find out my summer reading list includes things like medical journals and textbooks.

 

[perfektspace]

Abramson, Lyn Y., Alloy, Lauren B., Metalsky, Gerald I. (1989) Hopelessness Depression: A Theory-Based Subtype of Depression

Not exactly my area, but one of the first papers that got me seriously interested in mood disorders research, its kind of expanding off the learned helplessness model that Seligman used (I believe Abramson and Alloy both studied with him). They are my research idols😉

Nice one. Thanks. Nothing like trying to prepare for a vastly different research area in the Fall.

 

[lakewood]

This isn't clinical, it's not new, and you probably know of it already, but I still like it a lot. In particular, experiment 2: priming the concept of the elderly causes people to walk slower.

I like how it emphasizes the extent to which we are unaware of behavior changes that are automatic -- and how we are influenced to such a great degree by such "forgettable" stimuli.

Bargh, J.S., Chen, M. & Burrows, L. (1996). Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effect of trait construct and sterotype activation on action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 230-244.

Link: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jab257/bargh_chen_burrows_1996.pdf

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Not quite journal articles, but a collection of lectures that were turned into a book, some classic reading:

The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry (1953) by Harry Stack Sullivan.

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[KillerDiller]

This article has nothing to do with my research interests. I just find examining free will from a neuropsych perspective to be so darn fascinating.

Libet, Benjamin. (1999). Do we have free will? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, 47-57.

 

[Neuro-Dr]

Depressive symptoms and neurocognitive test scores in patients passing symptom validity tests
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Volume 17, Issue 3, April 2002, Pages 205-222
Martin L. Rohling, Paul Green, Lyle M. Allen and Grant L. Iverson

A must read for people who continually site depressive syndromes as a CAUSE of neurocognitive impairment.