Full Description
This indispensable sourcebook, first published in 2000, covers conceptual and practical issues in research design, methods of research, and statistical approaches in social and personality psychology. The chapters provide treatment of various methods, written by key experts in the field. The primary purpose of the Handbook is to provide readable yet comprehensive chapters on the full range of methods and tools used by researchers in social and personality psychology. In addition, it will alert researchers to methodological possibilities they may not have thought of. Innovative research methods work best when they allow researchers to ask theoretically driven questions that could not have been asked previously, thereby enhancing the quality and depth of their empirical knowledge base. With the help of this text, both new and established social psychologists will learn about appropriate uses of each method and the opportunities they provide for expanding knowledge. The Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology will be invaluable to graduate students and established researchers alike.
Contents
1. Introduction Harry T. Reis and Charles M. Judd; Part I. Design and Inference Considerations: 2. Validity issues and research design Marilynn B. Brewer; 3. Research design Eliot R. Smith; 4. Causal inference and generalization in field settings: experimental and quasi-experimental designs Stephen G. West, Jeremy C. Biesanz and Steven C. Pitts; 5. Computer simulation methods for social psychology Reid Hastie and Gary Stasser; Part II. Procedural Possibilities: 6. Psychophysiological methods James Blascovich; 7. Behavioral observation and coding Roger Bakeman; 8. Methods of small group research Norbert L. Kerr, Joel Aronoff and Lawrence A. Messe; 9. Event-sampling and other methods for studying daily experience Harry T. Reis and Shelly L. Gable; 10. Survey research Penny S. Visser, Jon A. Krosnick and Paul J. Lavrikas; 11. Studying the mind in the middle John A. Bargh and Tanya L. Chartrand; 12. Coding semi-structures interviews in social psychological research Kim Bartholomew, Antonia J. Z. Henderson and James E. Marcia; 13. Content analysis and narrative analysis Charles P. Smith; Part III. Data Analytic Strategies: 14. Measurement: reliability, construct validation, and scale construction Oliver P. John and Victoria Benet-Martinez; 15. Everyday data analysis in social psychology: comparisons of linear models Charles M. Judd; 16. Nasty data: unruly, ill-mannered observations can ruin your analysis Gary H. McClelland; 17. Analysis and design for nonexperimental data: addressing causal and noncausal hypotheses Duane T. Wegener and Leandre R. Fabrigar; 18. The analysis of data from dyads and groups Deborah A. Kashy and David A. Kenny; 19. Linda M. Collins and Aline G. Sayer; 20. Quantitative synthesis of social psychological research Blair T. Johnson and Alice H. Eagly.
