Some influential studies on the longer-term effects of targeted preschool programs on children's future academic success started about 50 years ago.
For this reason, non-cognitive skills appear to somehow have fallen into oblivion among ability researchers, especially in the wake of advances in cognitive testing and the publication of influential studies on the potency of cognitive skills in predicting life outcomes, such as Herrnstein and Murray's (1994) famous "bell curve".
Fritz Heider's research (Heider and Simmel 1944; Heider 1958) is an illustrative example of the universalist approach to agent-identification. Consider Heider and Simmel's (1944) influential studies on the attribution of agency.
According to Mark Blaxill, senior vice president of the Boston Consulting Group, a Boston-based business consulting firm that helped write an influential study on urban retailing in the late 1990's, the core areas of cities represent an $85 billion market.
Perhaps the most influential study on class size, conducted in Tennessee in the 1980s, pointed to the benefits of small classes, particularly for poor and minority students.
A Tennessee study in the late 1980s, widely regarded as the most influential study on class size, found that in kindergarten through third grade, students in classes of 13 to 17, particularly poor and minority students, performed better than those in classes of 22 to 25.
Some linguists consider it the most influential study on African languages, while others find Greenberg's work to be only a modification of the earlier classification scheme of Diedrich Westermann.
As a member of the Science Council of Canada during the 1970s, Franklin chaired an influential study on conserving resources and protecting nature.
"All things considered, I conclude that there is a very strong case that most of the mitigation action needed to stay within the internationally agreed 2°C limit is likely to be nationally net-beneficial," adds Green, who is also research adviser to the economist Lord Stern, author of an influential study on climate change.
