Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Are there ‘Sleeping Beauties’ in Psychology?

A ‘sleeping beauty’ is the name given to an article that has been published relatively unnoticed for a long time and then it suddenly gets cited a good deal.
Yuh-Shan Ho and James Hartley have used computer-based techniques to locate three such sleeping beauties in Psychology – namely Stroop, 1935; Maslow, 1943; and Simon, 1956 – and to see when they were awakened.
Similarly it is possible to find the princes who awoke the beauties.  In this case they were Jensen & Rohwer, 1966; Hackman & Lawler, 1971; and Gigerenzer and Hoffrage, 1995.  Do princes come in pairs!

Reference:

  • Ho, Y-S & Hartley, J (2017). Sleeping beauties in psychology.  Scientometrics, 110, 301-305.
  • Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation.  Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-396. 
  • Simon, H. A. (1956). Rational choice and the structure of the environment.  Psychological Review,   63(2), 129-128.
  • Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions.  Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-662.

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