Psychological methodology

"e;[A] fascinating read.

This proceedings book highlights the latest research and developments in psychometrics and statistics.

This edited volume presents examples of social science research projects that employ new methods of quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling of social processes.

Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems of Western psychology.

This book argues that some aspects of mental health practice have become mechanical, joyless and uninspiring, leading to a loss of creativity and wellbeing.

This book introduces multidimensional scaling (MDS) and unfolding as data analysis techniques for applied researchers.

This book provides an introduction to the theory, method, and practice of State-Trace Analysis (STA), and includes a detailed tutorial on the statistical analysis of state-trace designs.

This forward-looking resource offers readers a modern contextual framework for conducting social science research with indigenous peoples.

This is the first book to explain the many synergies between solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) and harm reduction (HR).

This book presents a framework for development, optimization, and evaluation of behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions.

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.

The goal of this guide and manual is to provide a practical and brief overview of the theory on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage testing (MST) and to illustrate the methodologies and applications using R open source language and several data examples.

This volume presents a manual for a new method of studying implicit attitudes, the Test of Implicit Associations in Relationship Attitudes (TIARA).

In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades.

This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills.

This book combines autobiography and innovative narrative research to create an original psychosocial perspective on the often taboo subject of sudden, unexpected child death.

This book offers a phenomenologically-inspired approach to sharing stories via 'poetic inquiry', a research approach that is rapidly gaining popularity within psychology and the wider social sciences.

In this tribute to Benjamin Wright, former students and colleagues recall the foundational contributions he made to the theory and practice of measurement in a career spanning over five decades.

This edited book presents the recent developments in partial least squares-path modeling (PLS-PM) and provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the most advanced research related to PLS-PM.

This multidisciplinary volume assembles current findings on violent crime, behavioral, biological, and sociological perspectives on its causes, and effective methods of intervention and prevention.

This Brief aims to provide a theoretically innovative introduction to the methodology of the human sciences.

This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film.

Subjectivity, the Unconscious and Consumerism is a unique and imaginative psycho-sociological exploration of how postmodern, contemporary consumerism invades and colonises human subjectivity.

This book examines existing treatments, legislation and research methodology of depression and exposes their limitations, championing psycho-social support as an alternative.

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

This proceedings volume compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), organized by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and held in Asheville, North Carolina, July 11th to 17th, 2016.

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity.

This graduate-level textbook is a tutorial for item response theory that covers both the basics of item response theory and the use of R for preparing graphical presentation in writings about the theory.

This compact resource synthesizes current research on bullying in the schools while presenting strengths-based approaches to curbing this growing epidemic.

This book describes how to use test equating methods in practice.

This book reflects the current thinking and research on how consumers' perception of product risks and benefits affects their behavior.

This book presents a model of supervision that is based on both contemporary theory and research, which is strongly contextualized to child and family social work.

This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings.

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R.

Can adversity lead to enduring positive change across the lifespan?

This book describes a series of ground-breaking residential workshops in therapeutic counselling in the 1960s, for people working in mental health and social care disciplines seeking to expand and deepen their reach.

This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan's controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important.

This edited volume presents a structured approach to a new lean education curriculum, implemented for the education of engineers, managers, administrators as well as human resources developers.

 This accessible, highly interactive book presents a transformative approach to communication in leadership to meet workplace challenges at both local and global levels.

This textbook considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of the response variable, given a set of predictors, and when it is important to characterize how the predictors are related to the response.

This book addresses problems and challenges that face educational measurement at a time when multipurpose usage of observational data from educational assessments, tests and international surveys has become a growing global trend.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching educational and psychological statistics effectively.

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching social science statistics effectively.

The research articles in this volume cover timely quantitative psychology topics, including new methods in item response theory, computerized adaptive testing, cognitive diagnostic modeling, and psychological scaling.

This book presents a critical examination of the development of user involvement within research, and investigates the issues currently preventing a productive integration of Mad knowledges within research and practice.

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving.

This book traces the theory and methodology of multivariate statistical analysis and shows how it can be conducted in practice using the LISREL computer program.

This book examines the theoretical foundations of order ethics and discusses business ethics problems from an order ethics perspective.

This book presents 9 theory-based and practice-oriented methods for assessing and stimulating a multi-voiced dialogical self in the context of groups, teams, cultures, and organizations.

This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach educational and psychological statistics effectively.