Advanced Research Methods for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

John E. Edlund is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, and serves as the Research Director of Psi Chi: The International Honor Society in Psychology. He has won numerous awards related to teaching and is passionate about the dissemination of psychological knowledge to the world. Austin Lee Nichols is the Director of Research for the Connection Lab in San Francisco. Prior to this, he worked in various faculty positions around the world in both psychology and management. He has won awards for his teaching, research, and service from various international organizations.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; 1. A brief orientation to research methods and statistics for the social and behavioral sciences John E. Edlund and Austin Lee Nichols; Part I. Performing Good Research: 2. Reliability and validity of measurement in the social and behavioral sciences Michael F. Wagner and John J. Skowronski; 3. Performing research in the laboratory Austin Lee Nichols and John E. Edlund; 4. Field research Sinikka Elliott; 5. Using the internet for research Rosanna E. Guadagno; Part II. Understanding Issues Present throughout the Research Process: 6. Issues in informed consent David S. Festinger, Karen L. Dugosh, Esther Choi and Chloe Sierka; 7. Participant preknowledge and attitudes in research Elena C. Papanastasiou; 8. Experimenter effects David B. Strohmetz; 9. Suspicion probes and debriefing in the social and behavioral sciences Ginette C. Blackhart and Travis D. Clark; Part III. The Social and Behavioral Scientist's Toolkit: 10. Physiological measures Eric J. Vanman and Michael C. Philipp; 11. Eyetracking research Jeff B. Pelz; 12. Questionnaire design Heather M. Stassen and Heather J. Carmack; 13. Reaction time measures in the social and behavioral sciences: speed matters Jeremy D. Heider and Jason T. Reed; Part IV. Emerging Issues in Social and Behavioral Science Research: 14. Replications and the social and behavioural sciences Courtney K. Soderberg and Timothy M. Errington; 15. Research ethics for the social and behavioral sciences Ignacio Ferrero and Javier Pinto; 16. Interdisciplinary research Rachel Adams Goertel, James P. Goertel and Mary G. Carey; 17. Cross-cultural research Fons J. R. van de Vijver; Part V. New Statistical Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: 18. A gentle introduction to Bayesian statistics Milica Miočević and Rens van de Schoot; 19. Development and applications of item response theory Clifford E. Hauenstein and Susan E. Embretson; 20. Social network analysis Sebastian Leon Schorch and Eric Quintane; 21. Meta analysis: an introduction Gregory D. Webster; Appendix A: Metafor package R code for meta-analysis examples; Index.