Psychological methodology

Measurements with persons are those in which human perception and interpretation are used for measuring complex, holistic quantities and qualities, which are perceived by the human brain and mind.

Quantitative consumer research has long been the backbone of consumer psychology producing insights with peerless validity and reliability.

This is a second edition of the highly popular volume used by clinicians and students in the assessment and intervention of aphasia.

Researching, Reflecting and Writing about Work provides a guide to the research skills and critical thinking required to complete a research project for professional learning courses in counselling and psychotherapy.

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

Subjective Well-Being and Social Media shows how, by exploiting the unprecedented amount of information provided by the social networking sites, it is possible to build new composite indicators of subjective well-being.

Although best known for experimental methods, social psychology also has a strong tradition of measurement.

This book demonstrates how to conduct latent variable modeling (LVM) in R by highlighting the features of each model, their specialized uses, examples, sample code and output, and an interpretation of the results.

One of the key challenges of all types of practice and research is finding a way to measure the problem.

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research approach committed to the examination of how people make sense of their major life experiences.

Distribution-free statistical methods enable users to make statistical inferences with minimum assumptions about the population in question.

Quantitative consumer research has long been the backbone of consumer psychology producing insights with peerless validity and reliability.

Research in social and behavioral sciences has benefited from linear regression models (LRMs) for decades to identify and understand the associations among a set of explanatory variables and an outcome variable.

Today's economic climate means that anyone involved in training and development must be able to measure its effect on business performance.

Sponsored by the American Psychological Association, this is a representation of the proceedings of the National Conference on Graduate Education in Psychology.

Fully revised and updated, Genealogy, Psychology and Therapy highlights the importance of genealogy in the development of identity, and the therapeutic potential of family history in cultivating wellbeing.

This book provides targeted advice to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the mental health professions on how to navigate, resist, and transform institutions and policies that were not designed for them.

Assessment and Culture challenges the classical approach to the assessment of minority populations by pointing out the deficiencies in this approach and offers instead a bio-cultural model of assessment.

Now in its second edition, Foundations of Education Research defines, discusses, and offers applications for the central components of educational research, providing both novice and experienced researchers with a common ground from which to work.

This book combines the latest in sociology, psychology, and biology to present evidence-based research on what works in community and institutional corrections.

In a very understandable, practical, and accessible manner, this book applies recent groundbreaking findings from behavioral neuroscience to the most complex and vexing challenges in organizations today.

Categorical data are quantified as either nominal variables--distinguishing different groups, for example, based on socio-economic status, education, and political persuasion--or ordinal variables--distinguishing levels of interest, such as the preferred politician or the preferred type of punishment for committing burglary.

Written by three leading scholars with vast experience in the science and practice of assessment centers (ACs), this is the first volume to comprehensively integrate variations of the assessment center method with alternative talent management strategies.

The cultural-test-bias hypothesis is one of the most important scien- tific questions facing psychology today.

Have you ever wanted to know an effective and ethical way to:Design a study?

*We've added a comprehensive basic math review to this edition.

This book is the third in a trilogy of books on introductory psychology.

Generalized Kernel Equating is a comprehensive guide for statisticians, psychometricians, and educational researchers aiming to master test score equating.

The education reform movement of the past two decades has focused on raising academic standards.

Peak performances should not be left to chance.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the early years of industrial and organizational psychology from an international perspective.

Do statistics-heavy research papers give you a headache?

Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation is an up-to-date survey of the growing research on automatic item generation (AIG) in today's technology-enhanced educational measurement sector.

This book offers a complete, practical guide to doing an intensive longitudinal study with individuals, dyads, or groups.

This book looks at innovative tools developed by Japanese and Korean researchers and practitioners to tackle cyberbullying and internet-related problems (addiction, cybercrimes, etc.

Noted for addressing both the hows and whys of item response theory (IRT), this text has been revised and updated with the latest techniques (multilevel models, mixed models, and more) and software packages.

Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams offers practical, empirically sourced insights into the high-stakes licensure exams required in most states for teacher certification.

Forensic mental health assessment (FMHA) has grown into a specialization informed by research and professional guidelines.

This latest edition has been fully updated to accommodate the needs of users of SPSS Releases 17, 18 and 19 while still being applicable to users of SPSS Releases 15 and 16.

In the last two decades there has been a flourishing research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists and neuroscientists.

Written by Michael D.

This book introduces best practices in longitudinal data analysis at intermediate level, with a minimum number of formulas without sacrificing depths.

This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is.

A New Way of Analyzing Object Data from a Nonparametric ViewpointNonparametric Statistics on Manifolds and Their Applications to Object Data Analysis provides one of the first thorough treatments of the theory and methodology for analyzing data on manifolds.

This book proposes a novel method of combining the current approaches to counselling and psychotherapy into one coherent framework.

Clinicians outside of rehabilitation psychology do not receive training on how to work with clients with disabilities.

Research on cognitive disorders is challenging due to the complexity of functions and numerous variables involved.

Statistical Concepts-A First Course presents the first 10 chapters from An Introduction to Statistical Concepts, Fourth Edition.