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"Intended for graduate students in personality and social psychology, this indispensable collection provides clear, detailed coverage of conceptual and practical issues in research design. In this third edition, leading experts address specific methods and offer contemporary commentary, reflecting the rapid changes of this dynamic area of research"--
List of contents
1. Introduction Tessa West, Harry T. Reis, and Charles M. Judd; 2. The romance of research methods Mahzarin R. Banaji; Part I. Before You Dive In: Foundational Issues in Social Science: 3. Ethical issues in psychological science: studying humans, analyzing data, publishing findings Chris Crandall, Roger Giner-Sorolla and Monica Biernat; 4. Replication in social and personality psychology Klaus Fiedler and Florian Ermark; 5. Realizing the promise of diverse and interdisciplinary team science Stephanie Tepper and Neil A. Lewis, Jr.; 6. A cross-cultural method in social and personality psychology: the cultural imagination Shigehiro Oishi and Ayse K. Uskul; Part II. Basic Design Considerations to Know, No Matter What You're Research is About: 7. Research design and issues of validity Marilynn B. Brewer and William D. Crano; 8. Experimental design Eliot R. Smith; 9. Quasi-experimental designs Leandre R. Fabrigar, Thomas I. Vaughan-Johnston and Duane T. Wegener; 10. Field research methods Sherry Jueyu Wu and Rebecca Littman; Part III. Deep Dives on Methods and Tools for Testing Your Question of Interest: 11. Survey research Kristen Olson; 12. Conducting surveys and experiments on the internet Chadly Stern and Jordan R. Axt; 13. Methods for studying everyday experience in its natural context Harry T. Reis, Laura Sels, and Shelly L. Gable; 14. Mobile sensing methods Ramona Schoedel and Matthias R. Mehl; 15. Language research in social-personality psychology Molly E. Ireland and James W. Pennebaker; 16. Collecting digital footprints in the wild Michal Kosinski; 17. Behavioral observation and coding Katherine R. Thorson and Tessa V. West; 18. Automaticity and implicit measures Bertram Gawronski; 19. Social neuroendocrinology Wendy Berry Mendes; 20. Multivariate neuroimaging in social and personality psychology Robert S. Chavez, William A. Cunningham, and Elliot T. Berkman; Part IV. Understanding What Your Data are Telling You about Psychological Process: 21. Measurement: reliability, construct validation, and scale construction William Revelle and Kayla M. Garner; 22. Advanced psychometrics Patrick E. Shrout and Mao Mogami; 23. Dealing with repeated measures: design decisions and analytic strategies for over time data Amie M. Gordon and Katherine R. Thorson; 24. Random factors and research generalization Charles M. Judd and David A. Kenny; 25. Mediation analysis Amanda Montoya; 26. Mathematical and computational models Karl Christoph Klauer; 27. Meta-Analysis Judith A. Hall and David Miller.
About the author
Harry T. Reis, Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester and past Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, has published over 250 papers and is known for methodological innovation. He has received career contribution awards from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the International Association for Relationship Research.Tessa West, Professor of Psychology at New York University, is known for her methodological expertise and research on interpersonal perception. She has received the Louis Kidder Early Career Award and the Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Foundation of Personality and Social Psychology. She is also an elected fellow for the Association of Psychological Science and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.Charles M. Judd is College Professor of Distinction Emeritus at the University of Colorado–Boulder and Visiting Professor at Oxford University. He is past Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. He has won numerous awards, contributed more than 150 articles, and authored or edited a dozen books.
Summary
Intended for graduate students in personality and social psychology, this indispensable collection provides clear, detailed coverage of conceptual and practical issues in research design. In this third edition, leading experts address specific methods and offer contemporary commentary, reflecting the rapid changes of this dynamic area of research.
Foreword
Written by experts in personality and social psychology, this essential resource presents and explains contemporary methodology.
