Our use of classic psychological experiments from scholarly journals in teaching an undergraduate experimental methodology course is described. We believe that the approach is effective when the experiments are carefully chosen. We include some suggestions for matching journal articles with core topics and some questions that facilitate students' understanding of certain articles.
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