• Study of University of Iowa (and town of Iowa City):  Correlation between alcohol accessibility (obtained from minutes of City Council meetings that showed the number of liquor license approvals for bars and restaurants near campus, from 1983-2005) and student alcohol misuse (UI police data on operating vehicle while intoxicated [OWI], public intoxication, and other liquor law violations, for the same years).  Click here and then go to p. 14 for article.  Article notes that, "The number of establishments serving alcohol in [district] CB-10 (the downtown area) in Iowa City increased from 18 in 1983 to 43 in 2005."  Note also the rise in alcohol violations over the years, in Figure 1.
   
• Number of batters hit by pitch (HBP) in a game and temperature (obtained from newspaper microfilms)
   
• Study of "social loafing," that people put forth less effort in groups than when alone, compared quality of singly and jointly written Beatles songs; each song’s quality was operationally defined as selection for single (yes or no) and Billboard Magazine chart rankings (obtained from music publications)
   
• Study of how Chicago neighborhoods termed "Food Deserts" (far away from supermarkets, but near fast-food places) have increased health problems (uses maps, business addresses, and health statistics)
   
•  Our Spring 2008 class project

• Idea that Olympic bronze medalists (3^rd place) may be happier than silver medalists (2^nd place) even though they finished lower (bronze happy to win any medal, silver thinks about how could have won gold); judges rated silver and bronze medalists’ facial expressions at end of event and on medal stand from videotapes of NBC 1992 Summer Olympic coverage; example of medal stand from 2004 (team led by University of Colorado researcher, using 2000 Olympics, has built upon the original findings from Cornell University, which were based on 1992 Olympics)
   
•  As fathers' roles have changed (somewhat) over the decades, with greater involvement in housework and child care, have depictions of dads in newspaper comic strips kept pace? (Database of cartoons, not necessarily ones used in study; see "Robert Brocksmith," keyword "housework") 
   

References: Baseball (Reifman et al., 1991, PSPB); Beatles (Jackson & Padgett, 1982, PSPB); Olympics (Medvec et al., 1995 v69, JPSP; McGraw et al., 2005, JESP); Comics (LaRossa et al., 2000, JMF)