Handbook of research methods in social and personality psychology / edited by Harry T. Reis, University of Rochester, Charles M. Judd, University of Colorado at Boulder.

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This indispensable sourcebook covers conceptual and practical issues in research design in the field of social and personality psychology. Key experts address specific methods and areas of research, contributing to a comprehensive overview of contemporary practice. This updated and expanded second edition offers current commentary on social and personality psychology, reflecting the rapid development of this dynamic area of research over the past decade. With the help of this up-to-date text, both seasoned and beginning social psychologists will be able to explore the various tools and methods available to them in their research as they craft experiments and imagine new methodological possibilities.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction to the second edition
• 1 Scratch an itch with a brick: why we do research
• Part I Design and Inference Considerations
• 2 Research design and issues of validity
• 3 Research design
• 4 Causal inference and generalization in field settings: experimental and quasi-experimental designs
• 5 Field research methods
• Part II Procedural Possibilities
• 6 Using physiological indexes in social psychological research
• 7 Research methods in social and affective neuroscience
• 8 Behavior genetic research methods: testing quasi-causal hypotheses using multivariate twin data
• 9 Methods of small group research
• 10 Inducing and measuring emotion and affect: tips, tricks, and secrets
• 11 Complex dynamical systems in social and personality psychology: theory, modeling, and analysis
• 12 Implicit measures in social and personality psychology
• 13 The mind in the middle: a practical guide to priming and automaticity research
• 14 Behavioral observation and coding
• 15 Methods for studying everyday experience in its natural context
• 16 Survey research
• 17 Conducting research on the Internet
• Part III Data Analytic Structures
• 18 Measurement and reliability measurement: reliability, construct validation, and scale construction
• 19 Exploring causal and noncausal hypotheses in nonexperimental data
• 20 Advanced psychometrics: confirmatory factor analysis, items response theory, and the study of measurement invariance
• 21 Multilevel and longitudinal modeling
• 22 The design and analysis of data from dyads and groups
• 23 Nasty data: unruly, ill-mannered observations can ruin your analysis
• 24 Missing data analysis
• 25 Meditation and moderation
• 26 Meta-analysis of research in social and personality psychology