Research Studies We Can't Forget

Research Studies We Can't Forget: Discrimination, Expectations, and the Marshmallow Test
(Thanks to Joan Wink for the reminder in her newsletter of these studies )

First, The Pygmalion Effect, or the Rosenthal and Jacobson Study.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
http://courses.umass.edu/psyc360/rosenthal.pdf

Second, remember The Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes study?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqp6GnYqIjQ

Jane Elliott, 3rd grade teacher in Iowa after MLK was killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott

A Class Divided
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/

Jane Elliott's own webpages
http://www.janeelliott.com/

Third, The Marshmallow Study, or the Daniel Goleman Study
One of the tests on YouTube (you can see more on YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EjJsPylEOY

TED Talks and the marshmallow

Slate: Marshmallow Test Revisited