October 2004
Volume 17, Number 10
Great Dissertations
Submit a nomination for a great dissertation to apsobserver@psychologicalscience.org. Nominations must include name, title, publication, date, and number of citations to be considered.
The list of great dissertations is ordered by mean citations per year (total citations divided by the number of years since publication). Dissertations must have 100 citations to be eligible.
| Name | Title/Journal | Year | Citations | Mean Citations/Yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devine, P.G. | Sterotypes and prejudice: Their automatic and controlled components. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 56 | 1989 | 798 | 53.2 |
| Kaiser, H.F. | The varimax criterion in factor analysis. Psychometrika, 23 | 1958 | 1986 | 43.2 |
| Markus, H. | Self-schemata and processing information in the self. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35 | 1977 | 1119 | 41.4 |
| Neely, J.H. | Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: Roles of inhibitionless spreading activation and limited-capacity attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 106 | 1977 | 1081 | 40.0 |
| Blaxton, Teresa | Investigation dissociations among memory measures: Support for a transfer appropiate processing framework. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 15 | 1989 | 415 | 27.7 |
| Rajaram, S. | Remembering and knowing: Two means of access to the personal past. Memory & Cognition, 21 | 1993 | 237 | 21.5 |
| Sperling, G | The information available in brief visual presentation. Psychological Monographs 74(11, Whole No. 498) | 1960 | 933 | 21.2 |
| Jones, T.A. & Schallert, T. | Use-dependent growth of pyramidal neurons after neocortex damage. Journal of Neuroscience, 14 | 1994 | 185 | 18.5 |
| Aserinsky E. & Kleitman, N. | Regularly occurring periods of eye motility, and concomitant phenomena, during sleep. Science, 118 | 1953 | 784 | 15.4 |
| McDermott, K.B. | The persistence of false memories in list recall. Journal of Memory & Language Special Issue: Illusions of memory, 35 | 1996 | 116 | 14.5 |
| Barsalou L.W. | Ad hoc categories. Memory & Cognition | 1983 | 297 | 14.1 |
| Swets, J.A. | Decision processes in perception. Psychological Review, 68 | 1983 | 297 | 14.1 |
| Weldon, M.S. | Mechanisms underlying priming on perceptual tests. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 17 | 1991 | 158 | 12.2 |
| Weldon, M.S. & Roediger, H.L. | Altering retieval demands reverses the picture superiority effect. Memory & Cognition, 15 | 1987 | 179 | 10.5 |
| Neill, W.T. | Inhibitory and facilitatory processes in selective attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 3 | 1977 | 269 | 10.0 |
| Loevinger, J. | Objective tests as instruments of psychological theory. Psychological Reports, 3 | 1957 | 397 | 8.4 |
| Eich, J.E. | The cue-dependent nature of state-dependent retrieval. Memory & Cognition | 1980 | 192 | 8.0 |
| Balota, D.A. | Automatic semantic activation and episodic memory encoding. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22 | 1983 | 161 | 7.7 |
| Reber, A.S. | Implicit learning of artificial grammars. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 6 | 1967 | 254 | 6.9 |
| Thorndike, E.L. | Animal intelligence: An experimental study of the associative processes in animals. Psychological Review, Monograph Suppl., 2 | 1898 | 306 | 2.9 |
More Great Dissertations
Great dissertation nominations did not appear in the original article. Nominations still must have 100 citations to be eligible. Nomination accuracy is the responsibility of the nominator.
| Name | Title/Journal | Year | Citations | Mean Citations/Yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abramson, L. | Learned helplessness in humans: critque and reformulation, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 87, 49-74. | 1978 | 2356 | 90.6 |
| Schneider W., & Shiffrin, R. M. | Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search and attention, Psychological Review, 84, 1-66. | 1977 | 1729 | 64 |
| Coyne, J. C. | Depression and response of others. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85(2), 186-193. | 1976 | 548 | 19.6 |
| Fischhoff, B. | Hindsight = foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 104, 288-299. | 1975 | 533 | 18.4 |
| Meyer, B. J. F. | The organization of prose and its effects on memory (book). Amsterdam: NorthHolland. | 1975 | 498 | 17.2 |
| Coyne, J. C. | Toward an interactional description of depression. Psychiatry, 39, 28-40. | 1976 | 456 | 16.3 |
| Templer, D. I. | The construction and validation of a Death Anxiety Scale. Journal of General Psychology, 82, 165-77. | 1970 | 447 | 12.8 |
| Curran, T., & Hintzman, D. L. | Violations of the independence assumption in process dissociation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 531-547. | 1995 | 113 | 12.6 |
| Marsolek, C. J., Kosslyn, S. M., & Squire, L. R. | Form-specific visual priming in the right cerebral hemisphere. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 492-508 | 1992 | 149 | 12.4 |
| Reicher, G. M. | Perceptual recognition as a function of meaningfulness of stimulus material. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 81, 274-280. | 1969 | 365 | 10.4 |
| Reder, L. M., & Ritter, F. E. | What determines initial feeling of knowing? Familiarity with question terms, not the answer. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18(3), 435-451. | 1992 | 119 | 9.9 |
| Wheeler, D. D. | Processes in word recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 1, 59-85. | 1970 | 315 | 9.5 |
| McNamara, T. P. | Mental representations of spatial relations. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 87-121. | 1986 | 153 | 8.5 |
| Friedman, A. | Framing pictures - Role of knowledge in automatized encoding and memory for gist, Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 108(3), 316-355. | 1979 | 203 | 8.1 |
| Mitchell, D. B. | How many memory systems? Evidence from aging. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 31-49. | 1989 | 117 | 7.8 |
| Rayner, K. | The perceptual span and peripheral cues in reading. Cognitive Psychology, 7, 65-81. | 1975 | 208 | 7.2 |
| Fischhoff, B. & Beyth, R. | "I knew it would happen": Remembered probabilities of once-future things. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 13, 1-16. | 1975 | 207 | 7.1 |
| Lee, T.D., & Magill, R.A. | The locus of contextual interference in motor skill acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9, pp 730-746. | 1983 | 137 | 6.5 |
| Logan, G. D. | Attention in character classification: Evidence for the automaticity of component stages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Genera, 107, 32-63. | 1978 | 167 | 6.4 |
| Morrison, R. E. | Manipulation of stimulus onset delay in reading: Evidence for parallel programming of saccades. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10, 667-682. | 1984 | 135 | 6.4 |
| Rushton, J. P. | Socialization and the altruistic behavior of children. Psychological Bulletin, 83, 898-913. | 1976 | 129 | 4.6 |
| Meyer, B. J. F., & McConkie, G. W. | What is recalled after hearing a passage? Journal of Educational Psychology, 65, 109-117. | 1973 | 120 | 3.9 |