Psychological methodology

This book is a step-by-step guide for instructors on how to teach a psychology research methods course at the undergraduate or graduate level.

Proposing Empirical Research: A Guide to the Fundamentals provides step-by-step instructions for students who will be writing their first research proposal in the social and behavioral sciences and using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Designing and Implementing Effective Evaluations provides extensive real-life examples of program evaluations that illustrate the various elements and steps in conducting a successful evaluation.

Winner of the 2024 De Groot Prize awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds your knowledge of and confidence in making inferences from data.

Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data.

Nonparametric Models for Longitudinal Data with Implementations in R presents a comprehensive summary of major advances in nonparametric models and smoothing methods with longitudinal data.

The comprehensive reference for informative WISC-V assessment Essentials of WISC-V Assessmentprovides step-by-step guidance for administering, scoring, and interpreting the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V).

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience.

The Reviewer's Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences provides evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences with the resources they need to read, understand, and assess quantitative work.

Research on the reliability and validity of assessment centers (ACs) has been ongoing for at least 50 years and continues to this day.

Interpreting Statistics for Beginners teaches readers to correctly read and interpret results of basic statistical procedures as they are presented in scientific literature, and to understand what they can and cannot infer from such results.

* In Real Data, students predict the answers to interesting questions.

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Sexual obsessions are a common symptom of OCD, but addressing them in treatment is uniquely challenging due to feelings of shame, prior misdiagnosis, and the covert nature of ritualizing behaviors.

* This edition of our popular reader is entirely updated with timely articles that deal with broad issues in education and psychology.

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline-and how to save itPsychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us?

Learn which dark side of personality assessment to use and when- Introduces different assessment tools- Highlights the nuances between tests- Presents the relevant psychometric properties- Explores findings about human natureMore about the bookWe encounter people who possess undesirable dark sides of personality at low levels in our day to day lives, whether it is the boss who acts like a jerk, a cheating partner, or a friend who rubs everyone up the wrong way.

Dealing with the methodological and data analytic problems in developmental research, this book presents solutions advanced from the disciplinary perspectives of psychology, behavior analysis and behavioral systems, sociology, and anthropology.

This research examines 17 international assessments over 60+ years highlighting the critical role that schooling plays around the world.

A useful handbook, this text presents guidelines frequently followed by writers of reports of empirical research designed for publication in scientific business journals.

Interrupted Time Series Analysis develops a comprehensive set of models and methods for drawing causal inferences from time series.

Multiple Imputation in Practice: With Examples Using IVEware provides practical guidance on multiple imputation analysis, from simple to complex problems using real and simulated data sets.

This groundbreaking edited book, The Routledge Handbook for Advancing Integration in Mixed Methods Research, presents an array of different integration ideas, with contributions from scholars across the globe.

This comprehensive text introduces current scientific research with interesting, familiar issues to engage students.

Assessment in counseling-like its biblical counterpart, discernment-is an ongoing and dynamic routine to encourage movement in a productive direction toward what is truly best.

This volume--the first to bring together research on sociocultural aspects of mathematics education--presents contemporary and international perspectives on social justice and equity issues that impact mathematics education.

The cornerstone of any psychiatric evaluation, the mental status exam, requires an assessment of insight -- a term commonly employed by clinicians to describe a patient's awareness (or lack thereof) of having a mental disorder.

This book is intended to contribute to the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.

In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment.

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.

Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis offers a creative and comparative account of the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of six prominent analytical movements used by interdisciplinary qualitative researchers: Categorical thinking, narrative thinking, dialectical thinking, poetic thinking, diffractive thinking, and decolonial thinking.

Over recent years, it has become clear that group-based approaches cannot directly be used to understand individual adolescent development.

Long studied by anthropologists, historians, and linguists, oral traditions have provided a wealth of fascinating insights into unique cultural customs that span the history of humankind.

This book extends the current discourse on the role of cultural knowledge in qualitative research, especially research conducted by women of color within their own community.

Designed to help readers analyze and interpret research data using IBM SPSS, this user-friendly book shows readers how to choose the appropriate statistic based on the design; perform intermediate statistics, including multivariate statistics; interpret output; and write about the results.

Shows how foundational mathematical ideas can be employed in the understanding of a variety of psychological phenomena.

Most behavioral scientists know two important concepts -- how to analyze continuous data from randomly assigned treatment groups of subjects and how to assess practice effects for a single group of subjects given a constant treatment at each of several stages of practice.

Measurement in human services means one thing: how well the effort serves clients.

This book contrasts earlier textbooks on "e;evidence-based practices.

Applied sciences, both physical and social, such as atmospheric, biological, climate, demographic, economic, ecological, environmental, oceanic and political, routinely gather large volumes of spatial and spatio-temporal data in order to make wide ranging inference and prediction.

This book will help readers understand the practice of qualitative research--whether they want to do it, teach it, or just learn about it.

Originally published in 1933, Psychology and the Choice of a Career formalizes the art of vocational guidance, which was growing in public interest at the time.

Complex Survey Data Analysis with SAS(R) is an invaluable resource for applied researchers analyzing data generated from a sample design involving any combination of stratification, clustering, unequal weights, or finite population correction factors.

The study of intuition and its relation to thoughtful reasoning is a burgeoning research topic in psychology and beyond.

This text offers a fresh perspective on developing research skills for educators as well as for students studying to become educators.

Museum Objects, Health and Healing provides an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between objects, health and healing.

Throughout the history of psychology, attempting to objectively measure the highly dynamic phenomenon of human behaviour has given rise to an underappreciated margin of error.

How can we account for the sudden appearance of such dazzling artists and scientists as Mozart, Shakespeare, Darwin, or Einstein?