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Research Methods:    General Introductory Texts    Experimental Methods    Research in Social Psychology    Literature Searches and Reviews    Surveys and Questionnaires    Interviews and Focus Groups    Personality Assessment    Internet-Based Research    Qualitative Research    Other Methodology Textbooks Research Ethics:    Studies on Humans    Studies on Nonhuman Animals    Other Research Ethics Textbooks Data Analysis:    Introductory Statistics    Statistics for Non-Quantitative Readers    Meta-Analysis    Qualitative Data Analysis

Research Methods

General Introductory Texts: Banyard, P., & Grayson, A. (Eds.). (1996). Introducing Psychological Research: Sixty Studies That Shape Psychology. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press. Bell, P. B., Staines, P., & Mitchell, J. (2001). Evaluating, Doing and Writing Research in Psychology: A Step-by-Step Guide for Students. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Benjafield, J. G. (1994). Thinking Critically About Research Methods. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Bordens, K. S., & Abbott, B. B. (2010). Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach (8th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. Christensen, L. B., Johnson, R. B., Turner, L. A. (2010). Research Methods, Design, and Analysis (11th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Devlin, A. S. (2006). Research Methods: Planning, Conducting, and Presenting Research. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Dunn, D. S. (2009). The Practical Researcher: A Student Guide to Conducting Psychological Research (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Dyer, C. (2006). Research in Psychology: A Practical Guide to Methods and Statistics (2nd ed.). London: Wiley-Blackwell. Elmes, D. G., Kantowitz, B. H., & Roediger, H. L., III (2006). Research Methods in Psychology (8th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Gliner, J. A., Morgan, G. A., & Leech, N. L. (2009). Research Methods in Applied Settings: An Integrated Approach to Design and Analysis (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Goodwin, C. J. (2009). Research in Psychology: Methods and Design (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Graziano, A. M., & Raulin, M. L. (2010). Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Haworth, J. (Ed.). (1996). Psychological Research: Innovative Methods and Strategies. New York: Routledge. Horvat, J., & Davis, S. F. (1998). Doing Psychological Research. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Leary, M. R. (2008). Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Leong, F. T. L., & Austin, J. T. (2005). The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. McBurney, D. H., & White, T. L. (2009). Research Methods (8th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Meltzoff, J. (1998). Critical Thinking About Research: Psychology and Related Fields. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Mitchell, M. L., & Jolley, J. M. (2009). Research Design Explained (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Pelham, B. W., & Blanton, H. (2012). Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke (4th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Ray, W. J. (2008). Methods Toward a Science of Behavior and Experience (9th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. Rosenthal, R., & Rosnow, R. L. (2008). Essentials of Behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (2008). Beginning Behavioral Research: A Conceptual Primer (6th ed.). Upper Saddle, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. Salkind, N. J. (2008). Exploring Research (7th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Smith, R. A., & Davis, S. (2009). The Psychologist as Detective: An Introduction to Conducting Research in Psychology (5th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Sommer, R., & Sommer, B. (2002). A Practical Guide to Behavioral Research: Tools and Techniques (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Stangor, C. (2010). Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Whitley, B. E., Jr., & Kite, M. E. (2013). Principles of Research in Behavioral Science (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge. Experimental Methods: Martin, D. W. (2008). Doing Psychology Experiments (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage. Maxwell, S. E., & Delaney, H. D. (2004). Designing Experiments and Analyzing Data: A Model Comparison Perspective (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Sani, F., & Todman, J. (2006). Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers. Research in Social Psychology: Abelson, R. P., Frey, K. P., & Gregg, A. P. (2004). Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Aronson, E., Ellsworth, P., Carlsmith, J. M., & Gonzales, M. H. (1990). Methods of Research in Social Psychology (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. Breakwell, G. (Ed.). (2004). Doing Social Psychology Research. London: Blackwell. Cozby, P. C. (2007). Methods in Behavioral Research (9th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. Crano, W. D., & Brewer, M. B. (2002). Principles and Methods of Social Research (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Dunn, D. S. (2009). Research Methods for Social Psychology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Dooley, D. (2001). Social Research Methods (4th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Harman, J. J., & Lehmiller, J. J. (2012). A Social Psychology Research Experience. San Diego, CA: Cognella. Hoyle, R. H., Harris, M. J., & Judd, C M. (2002). Research Methods in Social Relations (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. Korn, J. H. (1997). Illusions of Reality: A History of Deception in Social Psychology. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. McKenna, R. J. (1995). The Undergraduate Researcher's Handbook: Creative Experimentation in Social Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Milgram, S. [Blass, T. (Ed.)] (2010). The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments (3rd expanded ed.). London: Pinter & Martin. Neuman, W. L. (2007). Basics of Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Reis, H. T., & Judd, C. M. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press. Sansone, C., Morf, C. C., & Panter, A. T. (Eds.). (2004). The Sage Handbook of Methods in Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Literature Searches and Reviews: Cooper, H. (1998). Synthesizing Research: A Guide for Literature Reviews (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Fink, A. (2009). Conducting Research Literature Reviews: From the Internet to Paper (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Hart, C. (1998). Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. London: Sage Publications. Hart, C. (2001). Doing a Literature Search: A Comprehensive Guide for the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Surveys and Questionnaires: Alreck, P. L., & Settle, R. B. (2004). The Survey Research Handbook (3rd ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. Bradburn, N. M., Sudman, S., & Wansink, B. (2004). Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires (rev. ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Czaja, R., & Blair, J. (2005). Designing Surveys: A Guide to Decisions and Procedures (2nd. ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. Dillman, D. A. (2007). Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. Frey, J. H. (1989). Survey Research by Telephone (2nd ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. Salant, P., & Dillman, D. A. (1994). How to Conduct Your Own Survey. New York: Wiley. Schuman, H., & Presser, S. (1996). Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context (reprint ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Sudman, S., Bradburn, N. M., & Schwarz, N. (1996). Thinking About Answers: The Application of Cognitive Processes to Survey Methodology. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Tourangeau, R., Rips, L. J., & Rasinski, K. (2000). The Psychology of Survey Response. New York: Cambridge University Press. Interviews and Focus Groups: Krueger, R. A., & Casey, M. A. (2000). Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Morgan, D. L. (1997). Focus Groups as Qualitative Research (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Rubin, H. J., & Rubin. I. S. (2005). Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Seidman, I. (2006). Interviewing As Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences (3rd ed.). New York: Teachers College Press. Weiss, R. S. (1995). Learning from Strangers: The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies. New York: Free Press. Personality Assessment: Beutler, L. E., & Groth-Marnat, G. (Eds.). (2003). Integrative Assessment of Adult Personality (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Publications. Butcher, J. N., & Spielberger, C. D. (Eds.). (1995). Advances in Personality Assessment (Vol. 10). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Gacono, C. B., & Meloy, J. R. (1994). The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Gregory, R. J. (2010). Psychological Testing: History, Principles, and Applications (6th ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Mischel, W. (1996). Personality and Assessment. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Shrout, P. E., & Fiske, S. T. (Eds.). (1995). Personality Research, Methods, and Theory (A Festschrift Honoring Donald W. Fiske). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Internet-Based Research: Best, S. J., & Krueger, B. S. (2004). Internet Data Collection. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Birnbaum, M. H. (2000). Introduction to Behavioral Research on the Internet. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Birnbaum, M. H. (Ed.). (2000). Psychological Experiments on the Internet. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Fraley, R. C. (2004). How to Conduct Behavioral Research over the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to HTML and CGI/Perl. New York: Guilford Press. Hewson, C., Yule, P., Laurent, D., & Vogel, C. (2003). Internet Research Methods: A Practical Guide for the Social and Behavioural Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Jones, S. (Ed.). (1999). Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Schonlau, M., Fricker, R. D., Jr., & Elliott, M. N. (2002). Conducting Research Surveys Via E-Mail and the Web. Santa Monica, CA: Rand. Qualitative Research: Berg, B. L. (2008). Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences (7th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Camic, P. M., Rhodes, J. E., & Yardley, L. (Eds.). (2003). Qualitative Research in Psychology: Expanding Perspectives in Methodology and Design. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Flick, U. (2009). An Introduction to Qualitative Research (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Glesne, C. (2010). Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction (4th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Hill, C. E. (Ed.). (2012). Consensual Qualitative Research: A Practical Resource for Investigating Social Science Phenomena. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Kopala, M., & Suzuki, L. A. (Eds.). (1999). Using Qualitative Methods in Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Maxwell, J. A. (2005). Qualitative Research Design: An Interactive Approach (2nd ed.). London: Sage Publications. Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Silverman, D. (2009). Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Silverman, D. (Ed.). (2004). Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Strauss, A. L., & Corbin, J. M. (2007). Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Other Methodology Textbooks: Clark-Carter, D. (2009). Quantitative Psychological Research: The Complete Student's Companion (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press. DeVellis, R. F. (2003). Scale Development: Theory and Applications (2nd ed.). London: Sage Publications. Dinella, L. M. (Ed.). (2009). Conducting Science-Based Psychology Research in Schools. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Fetterman, D. M. (2009). Ethnography: Step by Step (3rd ed.). London: Sage Publications. Henry, G. T. (1990). Practical Sampling. London: Sage Publications. Henry, G. T. (1994). Graphing Data: Techniques for Display and Analysis. London: Sage Publications. Jorgensen, D. L. (1989). Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies. London: Sage Publications.

Research Ethics

Studies on Humans: Buchanan, D., Fisher, C. B., & Gable, L. (Eds.). (2009). Research With High-Risk Populations: Balancing Science, Ethics, and Law. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Chastain, G., & Landrum, R. E. (Eds.). (1999). Protecting Human Subjects: Departmental Subject Pools and Institutional Review Boards. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Coleman, C. H., Menikoff, J. H., Goldner, J. A., & Dubler, N. N. (2005). The Ethics and Regulation of Research with Human Subjects. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis. Farrell, A. (2005). Ethical Research With Children. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. Pincus, H. A., Lieberman, J. A., & Ferris, S. (Eds.). (1999). Ethics in Psychiatric Research: A Resource Manual for Human Subjects Protection. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Sales, B. D., & Folkman, S. (Eds.). (2000). Ethics in Research With Human Participants. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Studies on Nonhuman Animals: Akins, C. K., Panicker, S., & Cunningham, C. L. (Eds.). (2004). Laboratory Animals in Research and Teaching: Ethics, Care, and Methods. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Gluck, J. P., DiPasquale, T., & Orlans, F. B. (Eds.). (2002). Applied Ethics in Animal Research: Philosophy, Regulation, and Laboratory Applications. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. Orlans, F. B., Beauchamp, T. L., Dresser, R., Morton, D. B., & Gluck, J. P. (2008). The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. Novak, M. A., & Petto, A. J. (Eds.). (1991). Through the Looking Glass: Issues of Psychological Well-Being in Captive Nonhuman Primates. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Other Research Ethics Textbooks: Banyard, P., & Flanagan, C. (2005). Ethical Issues and Guidelines in Psychology. New York: Routledge. Bersoff, D. N. (Ed.). (2008). Ethical Conflicts in Psychology (4th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Francis, R. (2009). Ethics for Psychologists (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Kimmel, A. J. (1988). Ethics and Values in Applied Social Research. London: Sage Publications. Lee-Treweek, G., & Linkogle, S. (Eds.). (2000). Danger in the Field: Ethics and Risk in Social Research. New York: Routledge.

Data Analysis

Introductory Statistics: Abelson, R. P. (1995). Statistics as Principled Argument. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Aron, A., Aron, E. N., & Coups, E. (2006). Statistics for Psychology (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Davis, S. F., & Smith, R. A. (2005). An Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods: Becoming a Psychological Detective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Gravetter, F. J., & Wallnau, L. B. (2011). Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. Heiman, G. W. (2011). Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin/Cengage Learning. Hinton, P. R. (2004). Statistics Explained: A Guide for Social Science Students (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge. Howell, D. C. (2010). Statistical Methods for Psychology (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. King, B. M., Rosopa, P. J., & Minium, E. W. (2010). Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Morgan, G. A., Leech, N. L., Gloeckner, G. W., & Barrett, K. C. (2012). IBM SPSS for Introductory Statistics: Use and Interpretation (5th ed.). New York: Routledge Academic. Moore, D. S., & McCabe, G. P. (2006). Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (5th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. Moore, D. S., & Notz, W. (2006). Statistics: Concepts and Controversies (6th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. Sprinthall, R. C. (2007). Basic Statistical Analysis (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Urdan, T. C. (2010). Statistics in Plain English (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge Academic. Utts, J. M. (2005). Seeing Through Statistics (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson, Brooks/Cole. Utts, J. M., & Heckard, R. F. (2007). Mind on Statistics (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson, Brooks/Cole. Warner, R. M. (2007). Applied Statistics: From Bivariate Through Multivariate Techniques. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Welkowitz, J., Cohen, B. H., & Ewen, R. B. (2007). Introductory Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Wilson, J. H. (2005). Essential Statistics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Witte, R. S., & Witte, J. S. (2009). Statistics (9th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. Other statistics textbooks from Pearson Higher Education Statistics for Non-Quantitative Readers: Caldwell, S. (2010). Statistics Unplugged (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Kranzler, G., Moursund, J., & Kranzler, J. H. (2007). Statistics for the Terrified (4th ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Rowntree, D. (2004). Statistics Without Tears: A Primer for Non-Mathematicians (Allyn & Bacon Classics Edition). Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. Salkind, N. J. (2010). Statistics For People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Silverthorne, C. (2007). Common Sense Statistics (5th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. Meta-Analysis: Hunter, J. E., & Schmidt, F. L. (2004). Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Lipsey, M. W., & Wilson, D. B. (2001). Practical Meta-Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Rosenthal, R. (1991). Meta-Analytic Procedures for Social Research (rev. ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. Schulze, R. (2004). Meta-Analysis: A Comparison of Approaches. Toronto: Hogrefe & Huber. Schulze, R., Holling, H., & Böhning, D. (Eds.). (2003). Meta-Analysis: New Developments and Applications in Medical and Social Sciences. Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe & Huber. Qualitative Data Analysis: Auerbach, C. F., & Silverstein, L. B. (2003). Qualitative Data: An Introduction to Coding and Analysis. New York: New York University Press. Boyatzis, R. E. (1998). Transforming Qualitative Information: Thematic Analysis and Code Development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Hayes, N. (Ed.). (1997). Doing Qualitative Analysis in Psychology. Hove, United Kingdom: Psychology Press. Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A. M. (1994). Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Silverman, D. (2006). Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Wolcott, H. F. (1994). Transforming Qualitative Data: Description, Analysis, and Interpretation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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