As Jo (Dr Cavagin), an colleague of Helen from the research unit at the Royal Holloway used to say, Shy bairns get nowt
. So I asked a few psychologists if they’d help out with the Psychowiki and have the ok so far from the fantastic Prof Elizabeth Loftus, Prof Noam Chomsky and Prof Baron-Cohen, with the proviso that they’re all v. busy people.
Loftus has been responsible for work on false memories and devised a wonderful experiment that sidestepped the ethical issues involved in deliberately implanting false memories by persuading people that they’d shaken hands in Disneyland with Bugs Bunny.
Chomsky, of course, has had the most profound influence on Psychology with his devastating critique of Skinner and his paradigmatic description of generative grammar.
Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism Research Centre has been in the news recently with some exciting work on autism and prenatal testosterone.
Wonderful that these three - and others with any luck - will spare some time and effort to help provide us with content for Helen’s Psychowiki.
