Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology

Written by experts in personality and social psychology, this essential resource presents and explains contemporary methodology.

Harry T. Reis (Edited by), Tessa West (Edited by), Charles M. Judd (Edited by)

9781009170116, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 December 2024

738 pages
25 x 17.5 x 4.4 cm, 1.44 kg

This indispensable collection provides extensive, yet accessible, coverage of conceptual and practical issues in research design in personality and social psychology. Using numerous examples and clear guidelines, especially for conducting complex statistical analysis, leading experts address specific methods and areas of research to capture a definitive overview of contemporary practice. Updated and expanded, this third edition engages with the most important methodological innovations over the past decade, offering a timely perspective on research practice in the field. To reflect such rapid advances, this volume includes commentary on particularly timely areas of development such as social neuroscience, mobile sensing methods, and innovative statistical applications. Seasoned and early-career researchers alike will find a range of tools, methods, and practices that will help improve their research and develop new conceptual and methodological possibilities. Supplementary online materials are available on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction Tessa West, Harry T. Reis, and Charles M. Judd
2. The romance of research methods Mahzarin R. Banaji
Part I. Before You Dive In: Foundational Issues in Social Science: 3. Ethical issues in psychological science: studying humans, analyzing data, publishing findings Chris Crandall, Roger Giner-Sorolla and Monica Biernat
4. Replication in social and personality psychology Klaus Fiedler and Florian Ermark
5. Realizing the promise of diverse and interdisciplinary team science Stephanie Tepper and Neil A. Lewis, Jr.
6. A cross-cultural method in social and personality psychology: the cultural imagination Shigehiro Oishi and Ayse K. Uskul
Part II. Basic Design Considerations to Know, No Matter What You're Research is About: 7. Research design and issues of validity Marilynn B. Brewer and William D. Crano
8. Experimental design Eliot R. Smith
9. Quasi-experimental designs Leandre R. Fabrigar, Thomas I. Vaughan-Johnston and Duane T. Wegener
10. Field research methods Sherry Jueyu Wu and Rebecca Littman
Part III. Deep Dives on Methods and Tools for Testing Your Question of Interest: 11. Survey research Kristen Olson
12. Conducting surveys and experiments on the internet Chadly Stern and Jordan R. Axt
13. Methods for studying everyday experience in its natural context Harry T. Reis, Laura Sels, and Shelly L. Gable
14. Mobile sensing methods Ramona Schoedel and Matthias R. Mehl
15. Language research in social-personality psychology Molly E. Ireland and James W. Pennebaker
16. Collecting digital footprints in the wild Michal Kosinski
17. Behavioral observation and coding Katherine R. Thorson and Tessa V. West
18. Automaticity and implicit measures Bertram Gawronski
19. Social neuroendocrinology Wendy Berry Mendes
20. Multivariate neuroimaging in social and personality psychology Robert S. Chavez, William A. Cunningham, and Elliot T. Berkman
Part IV. Understanding What Your Data are Telling You about Psychological Process: 21. Measurement: reliability, construct validation, and scale construction William Revelle and Kayla M. Garner
22. Advanced psychometrics Patrick E. Shrout and Mao Mogami
23. Dealing with repeated measures: design decisions and analytic strategies for over time data Amie M. Gordon and Katherine R. Thorson
24. Random factors and research generalization Charles M. Judd and David A. Kenny
25. Mediation analysis Amanda Montoya
26. Mathematical and computational models Karl Christoph Klauer
27. Meta-Analysis Judith A. Hall and David Miller.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]