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Methods: Books, Chapters and Articles

 

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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.

new 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]

 

 

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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.