Spring 2005

  Psychology 552

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Psychology 552: Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology

Class Times:     Tuesday, 10-11:50

Class Place:      Room 708, Psych building

Instructor:         Brent Roberts

Office:              Room 411, Psych building

Telephone:        3-2644

Office Hours:    Wednesdays, 2-3 or by appointment

Week 1, January 18^th: Organizational meeting

Week 2  January 25^th: Why we do research

Bargh, J. A., Chen, M., Burrows, L. (1996).  Automaticity of social behavior: Direct effects of trait construct and stereotype activation on action. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 71, 230-244.

Cohen, D., Nisbett, R. E., Bowdle, B. F., & Schwarz, N. (1996).  Insult, aggression, and the southern culture of honor: An "experimental ethnography."  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 70, 945-960.

Ellis, B. J., McFadyen-Ketchum, S., Dodge, K. A., Pettit, G. S., Bates, J. E. (1999).  Quality of early family relationships and individual differences in the timing of pubertal maturation in girls: A longitudinal test of an evolutionary model.  Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 77, 387-401.

            Caspi, A.  McClay, J.  Moffitt, T. E., Mill, J., Martin, J., Craig, I. W., Taylor, A., & Poulton, R.  (2002).  Role of genotype in the cycle of violence in maltreated children.  Science, 297, 851-854.

Week 3 February 1^st: Philosophy of Science

Hempel, C. G. (1966).  Philosophy of natural science.  Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (Chap. 2: Scientific Inquiry:  Invention and test).

            White, P. A.  (1990).  Ideas about causation in philosophy and psychology.  Psychological Bulletin, 108, 3-18.

Sokal, A., & Bricmont, J.  (1998).  Fashionable nonsense.  New York, NY: Picador USA (Chapter 4: Intermezzo: Epistemic relativism in the philosophy of science).

Davis, R. D., & Millon, T.  (1994).  Personality change: Metatheories and alternatives.  In T. F. Heatherton & J. L. Weinberger (Eds.), Can Personality Change (pp. 85-120).  Washington, D. C.: APA.

Week 4 February 8^th: Techniques

Smith, E. R.  (2000).  Research design (Chapter 2, pp. 17-39).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.),  Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Blasovich, J.  (2000).  Psychophysiological methods  (Chapter 5, pp. 117-137).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Reis, H. T. & Gable, S. L.  Even-sampling and other methods for studying everyday experience (Chapter 8, pp. 190-222).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Bargh, J. A. & Chartrand, T. L.  (2000).  The mind in the middle: A practical guide to priming and automaticity research (Chapter 10, pp. 253-285).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Week 5 February 15^th: Techniques cont’d

            Geisinger, K. F.  (1994).  Cross-cultural normative assessment: Translation and adaptation issues influencing the normative interpretation of assessment instruments.  Psychological Assessment, 6, 304-312.

Collins, L. M., & Sayer, A. G.  (1999).  Modeling growth and change processes: Design, measurement, and analysis for research in social psychology (Chapter 18, pp. 478-495).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

            Johnson, B. T., & Eagly, A. H.  (2000).  Quantitative synthesis of social psychological research (Chapter 19, pp. 496-528).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Week 6 February 22^th: Techniques continued

Plomin, R. & Crabbe, J. (2000). DNA. Psychological Bulletin. 126, 806-828.

Hutchison, K. E., Stallings, M., McGeary, J., & Bryan, A. (2004). Population Stratification in the Candidate Gene Study: Fatal Threat or Red Herring?. Psychological Bulletin, 130, 66-79.

Hastie, R., & Stasser, G. (2000).  Computer simulation methods for social psychology (Chapter 4, pp. 85-116). In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

            Nowak, A., Vallacher, R. R., Tesser, A., & Borkowski, W. (2000). Society of self: The emergence of collective properties in self-structure. Psychological Review, 107, 39-61.

Week 7, March 1^st: Ethics

American Psychological Association.  (1992).  Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct.  American Psychologist, 47, 1597-1611.

Ceci, S. J., Peters, D., & Plotkin, J.  (1985).  Human subjects review, personal values, and the regulation of social science research.  American Psychologist, 40, 994-1002.

Rosenthal, R. (1994).  Science and ethics in conducting, analyzing, and reporting psychological research.  Psychological Science, 5, 127-134.

            Fine, M. A., & Kurdeck, L. A.  (1993).  Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations.  American Psychologist, 48, 1141-1147.

Week 8, March 8^th: Drawing inferences about causality: Internal validity

Brewer, M. B.  (2000).  Research design and issues of validity (Chapter 1, pp. 3-16).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Hsu, L. M.  (1989).  Random sampling, randomization, and equivalence of contrasted groups in psychotherapy outcome research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 57, 131-137.

Pedhazur, E. J., & Schmelkin, L. P., (1991).  Measurement, design, and analysis, an integrated approach. New Jersey: LEA. (Chapter 11: Artifacts and pitfalls in research),

Week 9, March 15^th: Generalizing effects: External validity

            Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J.  (1997).  External validity of “trivial” experiments: The case of laboratory aggression.  Review of General Psychology, 1, 19-41.

Maher, B.A.  (1978). Stimulus sampling in clinical research:  Representative design reviewed.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 643-647.

Mook, D. G.  (1983). In defense of external invalidity.  American Psychologist, 38, 379-387.

Week 10, March 22^nd: Spring Break

Week 11, March 29^th: Validity of measurement

John, O. P., & Benet-Martinez, V.  (2001).  Measurement: Reliability, Construct Validation, and Scale Construction.  In H. Reis, & C. Judd & (Eds.), Handbook of methods in social and personality psychology (pp 339 – 369).

Messick, S.  (1995).  Validity of psychological assessment: validation of inferences from persons’ responses and performances as scientific inquiry into score meaning.  American Psychologist, 50, 741-749.

Embretson, S. E.  (1996).  The new rules of measurement.  Psychological Assessment, 8, 341-349.

Okazaki, S., & Sue, S.  (1995).  Methodological issues in assessment research with ethnic minorities.  Psychological Assessment, 7, 367-375.

Cohen, P., Cohen, J., Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G.  (1999). The problem of units and the circumstances for POMP. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 34, 315-346.

Week 12, April 5^th: Statistical conclusion validity

Cowles, M., & Davis, C.  (1982). On the origins of the .05 level of statistical significance.  American Psychologist, 37, 553-558.

Cohen, J.  (1990).  Things I have learned (so far).  American Psychologist, 45, 1304-1312.

Cohen, J.  (1992).  A power primer.  Psychological Bulletin, 112, 155-159.

Meyer, G. J., Finn, S. E., Eyde, L. D., Kay, G. G., Moreland, K. L., Dies, R. R., Eisman, E. J., Kubiszyn, T. W., & Reed, G. M.  (2001).  Psychological testing and psychological assessment.  American Psychologist, 56, 128-165.

Week 13, April 11^th: Statistical conclusion validity, continued

Kline, R.  (2004).  Beyond Significance Testing (Chapter 3: What’s wrong with statistical tests and where do we go from here?).  Washington DC: APA.

            Wilkinson, L. (1999).  Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations. American Psychologist, 54, 594-604.

Howard, G. S., Maxwell, S. E., & Fleming, K. J.  (2000). The proof of the pudding: An illustration of the relative strengths of null hypothesis, meta-analysis, and Bayesian analysis. Psychological Methods, 5, 315-332.

Jones, L. V., & Tukey, J. W.  (2000). A sensible formulation of the significance test. Psychological Methods, 5, 411-414.

Week 14, April 19^th: Data Analysis

Kline, R.  (2004).  Beyond Significance Testing (Chapter 2: Fundamental concepts).  Washington DC: APA.

Judd, C. M.  (2000). Everyday data analysis in social psychology: Comparisons of Linear Models (Chapter 14, pp. 370-392).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Wegener, D. T., & Fabrigar, L. R.  (2000).  Analysis and design for nonexperimental data: Addressing causal and noncausal hypotheses (Chapter 16, pp. 412-450).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

McClelland, G. H.  (2000).  Nasty data: unruly, ill-mannered observations can ruin your analysis  (Chapter 15, pp. 393).  In H. T. Reis & C. M. Judd  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

MacKinnon, D. P., Lockwood, C. M., Hoffman, J. M., West, S. G., Sheets, V.  (2002). A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects. Psychological Methods, 7, 83-104.

Week 15, April 26^th: Writing

            Kazdin, A. E. (1995).  Preparing and evaluating research reports.  Psychological Assessment, 7, 228-237.

Bem, D. J.  (1987).  Writing the empirical journal article (chapter 8, pp. 171-201).  In M. P. Zanna & J. M. Darley (Eds.), The compleat academic: A practical guide for the beginning social scientist.  New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

            Bem, D. J.  (1995).  Writing a review article for Psychological Bulletin.  Psychological Bulletin, 118, 172-177.

            Sternberg, R. J.  (Ed.).  (2000).  Guide to publishing in psychology journals.  New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.  Chapters 11 & 14

Week 16, May 3^rd: End note.

Karon, B. P.  Becoming a first-rate professional psychologist despite graduate education.  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 26, 211 - 217.

Wicker, A W.  (1985). Getting out of our conceptual ruts: Strategies for expanding conceptual frameworks.  American Psychologist, 40, 1094-1103.

Hunt, E.  (1995).  Swan Song.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 347-351.