Research Methods in Psychology

Dame Glynis M. Breakwell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath in the Department of Psychology and has Visiting Professorships at Imperial College, London and the University of Surrey. Her research focuses upon identity process theory, social influence and social representation processes, leadership in complex organisations, and the psychology of risk management, perception, and communication. She has published more than 20 books, several of which are on research methods. She has been an adviser to both public and private sector organisations on the use of psychological methods and theories, especially concerning responses to public crises and major emergencies.Daniel B. Wright is Professor of Educational Assessment, in the Department of Educational Psychology and Higher Education, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His interests are in methodology and applied cognitive science.Julie Barnett is a Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Bath. She is a social psychologist with research interests around risk appreciation, risk communication, public responses to new environmental and health technologies and managing food allergy. Over the last 10 years she has been part of a range of interdisciplinary projects funded by research councils, charities and government departments and agencies.

Covers basic paradigms of research methods in psychology, while it offers an insight into more advanced methods. This textbook can be used across all levels from UG to Doctoral courses.

• Chapter 1: Research Questions, Design, Strategy and Choice of Methods - Glynis M Breakwell, Daniel B. Wright and Julie BarnettChapter 2: Ethics - Daniel B Wright, Julie Barnett and Glynis M BreakwellChapter 3: Big Questions and New Methods - Glynis M Breakwell, Daniel B Wright and Julie BarnettChapter 4: Capturing and Recording Information - Julie Barnett and Konstantina Vasileiou Chapter 5: Telling Others about Your Research - Julie Barnett, Glynis M Breakwell and Daniel B WrightChapter 6: Psychology as a Science: What is Science? - Daniel B. Wright, Julie Barnett, and Glynis M. BreakwellChapter 7: Accessing Difficult to Access Information - Glynis Breakwell and Julie Barnett Chapter 8: Quasi-experimental Designs (including observational methods) - Chris Fife-SchawChapter 9: Experimental Design - Graham HoleChapter 10: Interviewing and Focus Groups - Glynis M. Breakwell and Lada TimotijevicChapter 11: Descriptive Statistics: Graphical and Numerical Methods - Marianna E. Carlucci and Daniel B. WrightChapter 12: Content Analysis, Thematic Analysis and Discourse Analysis - Rusi JaspalChapter 13: Self-Report Data - Jeff Gavin and Karen Rodham Chapter 14: Questionnaire Design - Chris Fife-SchawChapter 15: Surveys and Sampling - Patrick SturgisChapter 16: Inferential Statistics - Marianna E. Carlucci and Daniel B. WrightChapter 17: Factorial ANOVA - Katherine McGuire and Kamala London Chapter 18: Correlation and Regression - Jeremy MilesChapter 19: Creating Latent Variables - Daniel B. Wright and Sarah M. Wells