Psychology 504

Advanced Research Methods

Instructor: David J. Weiss

 

How to Read a Journal Article

Writing the Journal Article – a wonderful essay by Daryl Bem

Proposal Format

Sample Consent Form

Looking for Inter-Group Differences (reprinted from The Looking Glass, Vol. 5.)

Solving Real-World Problems

A comment on deception (from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001)

An article on subject recruitment (from Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2002)

A forthcoming chapter on clinical significance

Word Template for M. A. Thesis (click to download, then copy the Mathesis.dot file to Program Files/Microsoft Office/Templates directory.  In Word, invoke the template via File : New..., then click on Mathesis.dot.  Modify the New document for your thesis, name and save it.  The template is not changed. Note that this template is for the final version of a thesis, not for a proposal)

Class Syllabus

 

 Some articles from the reading list are available online:

 

Weiss, D. J., Walker, D. L., & Hill, D. (1988). The choice of a measure in a health-promotion study. Health Education Research: Theory and Practice, 3, 381-386.

Weiss, D. J. (1989). Potential methodological contributions of mathematical psychology to patient compliance research. Journal of Compliance in Health Care, 4, 95-100.

Ong, A. D., & Weiss, D. J. (2000). The impact of anonymity on responses to "sensitive" questions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 1691-1708.

Harris, R. J. (1976). The uncertain connection between verbal theories and research hypotheses in social psychology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 12, 210-219.

Egu, C. L., & Weiss, D. J. (2003).  The role of race and severity of abuse in teachers’ recognition or reporting of child abuse.  Journal of Child and Family Studies, 12, 465-474.

Interesting articles not on the reading list

Bickman, L., & Zarantonello, M. (1978). The effects of deception and level of obedience on subjects' ratings of the Milgram study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4, 81-85.

Linden, L. E., & Weiss, D. J. (1994). An empirical assessment of the random response method of sensitive data collection. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 9, 823-836.

Web-based research

Schmidt, W. C. (1997).  World-wide web survey research: Benefits, potential problems, and solutions.  Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 29, 274-279.  (you can use free software for conducting a web-based survey from this site)

Birnbaum, M. H. (2001).  Introduction to behavioral research on the Internet.  Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice-Hall.  (a tutorial with disk)

Birnbaum, M. H. (2000). Psychological experiments on the Internet.  San Diego, Academic Press.  (a book of readings)

A short history (ca. 1999) of web-based studies

Some published articles that began life as CSULA Psychology Department M.A. theses:

Lewis, D. M., & Cachelin, F. M. (2001). Body image, body dissatisfaction, and eating attitudes in mid-life and elderly women.  Eating Disorders:  The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, 9, 29-39.

Regan, P. C., Medina, R., & Joshi, A. (2001). Partner preferences among homosexual men and women: What is desirable in a sex partner is not necessarily desirable in a romantic partner. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 29, 625-633.