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This remarkable collection of essays gives students and other researchers a first-hand look at how collaborative scientific research is done. The 21 contributors are leading psychological and social scientists with extensive experience working as members of a research team. Each author offers a distinctive perspective on the collaborative research process-its pros and cons, challenges and benefits, practical implications and ethical dilemmas.
Each essay focuses on a set of guiding questions:
- What motivated the collaboration?
- What about the collaboration made the research work more effective (or less?)
- Does the substantive domain in which the collaboration occurs shape the nature of the collaboration?
- How have technological advances changed collaboration?
- Are there particular issues that arise for students collaborating with faculty members, or faculty members collaborating with students?
- These essays offer useful insights to Psychology students learning about research methods at undergraduate or postgraduate level.
List of contents
Part I. Introduction: Behind the Scenes Part II. Collaboration Within Psychological Science.- 1. Elaine Hatfield and Ellen Berscheid, In Love Research, One is the Loneliest Number.- 2. Dominic Abrams and Michael Hogg. Alliances, Bridges and Adversity - It Has to be Fun.- 3. John F. Dovidio and Samuel L. Gaertner. Living What we Learn: Dual Identity and Collaboration.- 4. Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor. Collaboration: Interdependence in Action.- 5. Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon. Psychology's Folie a Trois: Till Death Do Us Part.- 6. Miles Hewstone and Robin Martin. ''One of us'': Group Processes, Division of Labour, and Transactive Memory in Pursuit of the Enigma of Minority Influence.- 7. Charles Judd and Bernadette Park. Social cognition about a collaboration in social cognition.- 8. Hazel Rose Markus and Shinobu Kitayama, Dialogues across Difference; The Two Self Solution.- 9. Richard E. Nisbett and Lee Ross. A Fifty-Year Conversation.- 10.Phillip R. Shaver and Mario Mikulincer. An International Collaboration Based on Similarity and Complementarity.- Part III. Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity 11. John L. Sullivan and Eugene Borgida. It Takes a Village: Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Political Psychology.- 12. Steven W. Gangestad. Scientific Collaboration Illustrates Extraordinary Features of our Species - and the Risks Collaboration Entails.- 13. Steven J. Sherman. A Career of Collaborations: A Plan Designed to NOT Get You Tenure in Today's World.- 14. Gary Wells. Some Functions and Dysfunctions of Collaboration.- 15. Richard L. Zweigenhaft. Studying Diversity in the American Power Structure, Collaboratively.- Part IV. Collaboration With Institutional and Community Partners 16. Steven J. Breckler. The Social Psychology of National Science Policy.- 17. Nancy Cantor and Peter Englot. Psychological Science in Public: It Takes a Diverse Village to Make a Difference.- 8. Geoffrey L. Cohen and Julio Garcia. Partnering with Schools: No Researcher is an Island.- 19. James S. Jackson.The Program for Research on Black Americans: Team Science in the Study of Ethnic and Racial Influences.- 20. Barbara Loken and Deborah Roedder John. Collaboration in Applied Psychological Research.- 21. Mark Snyder and Allen M. Omoto. Finding the Sweet Spot: What Makes for Successful Collaboration?.- Part V. Conclusion: Best Practices for Collaborative Research in Psychological Science.
