What, out of all of the studies you have ever read, has been the most important study?

Theoretically, probably Bandura and Menlove 1968: children with fearful feelings toward dogs became significantly more positive toward them after simply watching movie clips of other children enjoying their interactions with a variety of dogs.

Nothing initially struck me reading this but then I began wondering: Could we make a database of every movie clip ever recorded tagged with the experiences involved? How does this surrogacy work in the brain? Could we base a new form of parenting or student curriculum off of this information? Why do movies exist in our society but to present us with unique situations to challenge our thinking? Come to think of it many people recreate tropes following cues for expected behaviors from sociological exemplars like television and the media..., etc. Thus many ideas followed.

Retroactive insight-wise, Kohn and Schooler, 1983: "Work and Personality: An Inquiry into the Impact of Social Stratification". My siblings and I were raised under two distinct modes of thought by my parents and the people hired by my parents to spend time with us. This gave us strange transversal abilities in respect to how we look at life on occasion. Much like being raised under two different religions, deconstruction and contradictive overlap made things a bit more...