 Teaching
Social Psychology

Methods:
Books, Chapters and Articles

= new link as of August 1, 2009
Book
Chapter
Baron,
J., & Siepmann, M. (2000). Using
web questionnaires for judgment and decision making research.
In M. H. Birnbaum (Ed.), Psychological Experiments on the
Internet (New York: Academic Press). (pre-publication version)
Dunn,
D. (2009). Research
methods in social psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Chapter 1 (Studying Social Psychology) can be viewed
here.
From RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY by Dana S. Dunn.
© 2009 by Dana S. Dunn. Reprinted with permission of Wiley-Blackwell.

Greenwald,
A. G. (2004). The
resting parrot, the dessert stomach, and other perfectly defensible
theories. In J. Jost, M. R. Banaji, & D. A. Prentice
(Eds.), The yin and yang of social cognition: Perspectives
on the social psychology of thought systems (Pp. 275–285).
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [added
1/20/05]
Articles
Anderson, C.A., & Bushman, B.J. (1997). External validity of "trivial" experiments: The case of laboratory aggression. Review of General Psychology, 1, 19-41.
Anderson, C.A., Lindsay, J.J., & Bushman, B.J. (1999). "Research
in the Psychological Laboratory: Truth or Triviality?"
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8,
3-9.
Baumeister,
R. F., Vohs, K. D., & Funder, D. C. (2007). Psychology
as the science of self-reports and finger movements: Whatever
happened to actual behavior? Perspectives on Psychological
Science, 2, 396-403. [added 4/16/08]
Blanton,
H., & Jaccard, J. (2008). Unconscious
racism: A concept in pursuit of a measure. Annual Review
of Sociology, 34, 277-297.
Bushman,
B. J. & Wang, M. C. (1998). Using
normal quantile plots to explore meta-analytic data sets.
Psychological Methods, 3, 46-54.
Bushman,
B. J., & Wells, G. L. (2001). Narrative
impressions of literature: The availability bias and the corrective
properties of meta-analytic approaches. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1123-1130.
Bushman,
B. J. & Yuan, K.-H. (2002). Combining
standardized mean differences using the method of maximum likelihood.
Psychometrika, 67, 589-608.
Epley,
N., & Huff, C. (1998).
Suspicion, affective response, and educational benefit as a
result of deception in psychology research. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 759-768.
Gosling,
S. D., & Vazire, S., Srivastava, S., & John, O. P. (2004).
Should
we trust Web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions
about Internet questionnaires. American Psychologist,
59, 93-104. [added 8/15/06]
Greenwald,
A. G. (1975). Consequences
of prejudice against the null hypothesis. Psychological
Bulletin, 82, 1-20. [added 2/12/05]
Greenwald,
A. G. (1976). Within-subjects
designs: To use or not to use? Psychological Bulletin,
83, 314-320. [added 2/12/05]
Greenwald,
A. G., Gonzalez, R., Guthrie, D. G., & Harris, R. J. (1996).
Effect
sizes and p-values: What should be reported and what should
be replicated? Psychophsysiology, 33, 175-183.
[added 2/12/05]
Greenwald,
A. G., Poehlman, T. A., Uhlmann, E., & Banaji, M. R. (2009). Understanding
and using the Implicit Association Test: III. Meta-analysis
of predictive validity. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 97, 17-41.
Greenwald,
A. G., Pratkanis, A. R., Leippe, M. R., & Baumgardner, M.
H. (1986). Under
what conditions does theory obstruct research progress?
Psychological Review, 93, 216-229. [added
2/12/05]
Greenwald,
A. G., & Ronis, D. L. (1981). On
the conceptual disconfirmation of theories. Pesonality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 7, 131-137. [added
2/12/05]
Kahneman,
D., Krueger, A. B., Schkade, D., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A.
A. (2004). A
survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The
Day Reconstruction Method (DRM). Science (3 December
2004), 1776-1780. [added 7/15/05]
Levav,
J., & Fitzsimons, G. J., (2006). When
questions change behavior: The role of ease of representation.
Association for Psychological Science, 17, 3, 207-213.
[added 8/15/06]
Plous,
S. (1996). Attitudes
toward the use of animals in psychological research and education:
Results from a national survey of psychologists. American
Psychologist, 51, 1167-1180. [added 2/12/05]
Plous,
S. (1997). Animal
research in psychology. American Psychologist, 52,
1250-1252. [added 2/12/05]
Plous,
S. (1998). Signs
of change within the animal rights movement: Results from a
follow-up survey of activists. Journal of Comparative
Psychology, 112, 48-54. [added 2/12/05]
Plous,
S., & Herzog, H. A., Jr. (1999, June). Should
AWA coverage be broadened? Results from a survey of animal care
and use committees. Lab Animal, pp. 38-40. [added
2/12/05]
Plous,
S., & Herzog, H. A., Jr. (2000). Poll
shows researchers favor lab animal protection. Science,
290, 711. [added 2/12/05]
Plous,
S., & Herzog, H. (2001). Reliability
of protocol reviews for animal research. Science, 293,
608-609. [added 2/12/05]
Spencer,
S. J., Zanna, M. P., & Fong, G. T. (2005). Establishing
a causal chain: Why experiments are often more effective in
examining psychological process than mediational analyses.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89,
845-851. [added 1/12/06]
Vul,
E., Harris, C., Winkielman, P., & Pashler, H. (2009). Puzzlingly
high correlations in fMRI studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition. Perspectives
on Psychological Science, 4, 274-290.
Wegner,
D. M. (1992). The
premature demise of the solo experiment. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 504-508.
Wells, G. L., & Windschitl, P. D. (1999). Stimulus sampling and social psychological experimentation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 1115-1125.
Windschitl, P. D., & Wells, G. L. (1996). Measuring psychological uncertainty: Verbal versus numeric methods. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2, 343-364.
Zanna,
M. P. (2004). The
naïve epistemology of a working social psychologist (or
the working epistemology of a naïve social psychologist):
The value of taking temporary givens seriously. Personality
and Social Psychology Review, 8, 210-218. [added
1/12/06]
 

Resources
for the Teaching of Social Psychology is a part of the CROW Project,
Course Resources on the Web. CROW is sponsored by the Associated
Colleges of Illinois and generously supported by UPS. This site
was created by Jon Mueller, Professor of Psychology at North Central
College, Naperville, IL. Send comments to Jon.

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