Psychological methodology

Measurement plays a fundamental role both in physical and behavioral sciences, as well as in engineering and technology: it is the link between abstract models and empirical reality and is a privileged method of gathering information from the real world.

* Prepares students to conduct their first empirical research study, with quantitative and qualitative methods covered in detail.

Based on a collection of chapters of leading scholars in the field, the purpose of this book is to intervene in current debates on the scientific foundation of psychological theory, methodology and research practice, and to offer an in-depth, situated and contextual understanding of psychological generalization.

Der Begriff "Säuglings- und Kleinkindpsychiatrie" wirft oft Fragen auf.

Data Analytics for the Social Sciences is an introductory, graduate-level treatment of data analytics for social science.

Responding to both the increase of mixed methods research (MMR) and the lack of dialogue about its philosophical and methodological practices in comparative and international education (CIE) Reflexive Mixed Methods Research in Comparative and International Education: Context, Complexity, and Transdisciplinarity offers readers an overview of different philosophical approaches to mixed methods, as well as the practical processes to engage in MMR with reflexivity.

This book provides accessible treatment to state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing longitudinal studies.

This book raises important questions about whether or not researchers can ever keep their own lives out of their work.

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 book explores the practical application of recent improvements in technology for people living with dementia and highlights the positive outcomes on care, quality of life, and services on patients through exploration of 15 research projects to redefine the future of dementia care.

Power Analysis of Trials with Multilevel Data is a valuable reference for anyone who wants to perform power calculations on trials with hierarchical data.

Das Bochumer Inventar zur berufsbezogenen Persönlichkeitsbeschreibung (BIP) gehört im deutschsprachigen Raum zu den führenden Selbstbeschreibungsinstrumenten der Personaldiagnostik.

Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology is a vital resource for students new to qualitative psychology.

"e;Yoder and Symons bring decades of work to bear and it shows.

Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability provides conceptual, experiential, and practical insights into the vulnerability of the qualitative researcher.

This manual has been written for a wide range of dynamic practitioners involved in treating patients with narcissistically-infused issues.

This book highlights the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health needs of children and adolescents in order to shed light on future practice and reform needed to better deal with the aftermath of such devastating events.

Heuristic Enquiries provides an illuminating exploration of heuristic research by offering case studies of heurism in theory and practice across a number of disciplines, including art and design, psychology, psychotherapy, social care, social geography, and indigenous studies.

When seeking to test specific hypotheses in large data sets, social and behavioral scientists often construct models.

Researchers in the social sciences are faced with complex data sets in which they have relatively small samples and many variables (high dimensional data).

Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals between successive state transitions or events.

The fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology.

In this book, top specialists address theoretical, methodological, and empirical multilevel models as they relate to the analysis of individual and cultural data.

This book examines how individuals behave across time and to what degree that behavior changes, fluctuates, or remains stable.

This collection of research articles illustrates a wide variety of qualitative methods for gathering and interpreting data.

This volume explores human-machine collaboration and provides machine-generated auto-summaries of emerging research trends in motivation science.

This book addresses how coping with the pandemic has been shaped by the interplay between cognition and emotion.

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This book embeds a novel evolutionary analysis of human group selection within a comprehensive overview of multilevel selection theory, a theory wherein evolution proceeds at the level of individual organisms and collectives, such as human families, tribes, states, and empires.

The development of communication as a discipline has resulted in an explosion of scales tapping various aspects of interpersonal, mass, organizational, and instructional communication.

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The fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology.

This book highlights the principles of psychological assessment to help researchers and clinicians better develop, evaluate, administer, score, integrate, and interpret psychological assessments.

Bringing together interdisciplinary leaders in methodology and arts-based research (ABR), this comprehensive handbook explores the synergies between artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and publishing ABR studies.

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.

This book examines the intersection of Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) and Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O Psychology).

Can qualitative and quantitative methods be combined effectively in psychology?

Methodological Issues in Aging Research is the first volume in the "e;Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology.

This new book provides a theoretical and practical guide to analysis of variance (ANOVA) for those who have not had a formal course in this technique, but need to use this analysis as part of their research.

This fully revised and updated second edition is an essential introduction to inferential statistics.

The Psychology Research Companion: From student project to working life not only gives you the skills and confidence to conduct your psychology research project at university, but is the first book to show how these skills will help you get ahead in your first job in the workplace.

Der „Grounded Theory Reader“ bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung und den aktuellen Stand der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie, die international am weitesten verbreitete qualitative Forschungsstrategie.

A unique and important resource, full of critical practical knowledge and technical details made readily accessible.

This book provides a detailed examination of argumentative interactions in families with young children during mealtimes.

Wir geben eine gründliche Anleitung für die Arbeit unter diesem qualitativ-sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsstil – eine Fortentwicklung der von Anselm Strauss und Barney Glaser begründeten Methodologie.

Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics utilizes new results in systems theory as a foundation for representing sensory channels as a form of recursive loop processes.

Psychological Science Under Scrutiny explores a range of contemporary challenges to the assumptions and methodologies of psychology, in order to encourage debate and ground the discipline in solid science.

This classic volume outlines, for both students and professionals, the mathematical theories and equations that are necessary for evaluating a test and for quantifying its characteristics.