Psychological methodology Books

The Lively Science is Michael Agar's accessible, idiosyncratic, often humorous, and sometimes controversial explication of his own polestar truth: "Research on humans in their social world by other humans is not a traditional science like the one created...

The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education approaches theory as a method for doing research, rather than as a background framework. Educational research often reduces theory to a framework used only to analyze empirically...

Wie entstehen unsere Gefühle? Was sind die tieferen Gründe für unser Bewußtsein? Das Buch beschreibt anschaulich, auf welche Weise das menschliche Gehirn die Welt entstehen läßt, die wir tagtäglich als unser bewußtes und emotionales Leben empfinden. Die...

Die „moderne Welt" befreit von jeglicher körperlichen Belastung. Vieles ist einfacher und anscheinend besser geworden. Tatsächlich ist dies jedoch ein Trugschluss. Zahlreiche Krankheitsbilder lassen sich auf den Mangel an Bewegung zurückführen. Ausgehend...

This book reviews the statistical procedures used to detect measurement bias. Measurement bias is examined from a general latent variable perspective so as to accommodate different forms of testing in a variety of contexts including cognitive or clinical...

By A.M. Benis, Sc.D., M.D. This book presents the essentials of the most quantitative personality test available online. The NPA personality test is based on the identification of three interacting genetic traits, namely sanguinity, perfectionism and...

Neuro-Ed Assessment and Screeners are fast and effective assessment forms for busy mental health and educational professionals. These practical assessments were created by practitioners who know the needs of professionals working in the field. The...

YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integrationof idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science.At the beginning, 3 years ago, we got an agreement...

The inter-comparison of specific skills as represented by performance on neu- psychological tests is at the heart of the neuropsychological assessment process. However, there is a tendency to regard the interpretation of single...

This volume demonstrates how multimethod forensic assessment with the Rorschach adds incremental validity, insight, and practical value. Case discussions by leading forensic psychologists illustrate the integration of contemporary Rorschach assessment...

Research Methods and Society, Third Edition is designed to help undergraduate students acquire basic skills in methods of social science research. These skills provide a foundation for understanding research findings in the social sciences and for...

This volume reviews the challenges and alternative approaches to modeling how individuals change across time and provides methodologies and data analytic strategies for behavioral and social science researchers. This accessible guide provides concrete,...

Today's evaluators are being challenged to help design and evaluate social programs intended to prevent and ameliorate complex social problems in a variety of settings, including schools, communities, and not-for-profit and for-profit organizations...

This book introduces the reader to the main quantitative concepts, methods, and computational techniques needed for the development, evaluation, and application of tests in the behavioral/social sciences, including educational tests. Two empirical...

Advances in Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry pays homage to two prominent scholars, Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, for their formative and formidable contributions to autoethnography, personal narrative, and alternative forms of scholarship.Their...

This book proposes a hermeneutic, phenomenological, and sociocultural route, illuminating new methodological approaches to study humorous actions through Vygotsky's proposal, which has been little explored and worked on from the developmental psychology...

Forskningsmetoder forklaret enkelt! Psykologiens og samfundsvidenskabens forskningsmetoder inden for humaniora er meget forskellige fra andre empiriske videnskabers metoder. Det er bestemt ikke let at forsøge at forstå et andet...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Biologische Psychologie, Note: 1,0, Hochschule Fresenius; Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Einigen Lebensmitteln werden förderliche Effekte auf kognitive Leistungen und einem verlangsamten...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Entwicklungspsychologie, Note: 13,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll sich mit dem Stellenwert des jugendkulturellen Phänomens des Rauschtrinkens in der adoleszenten Entwicklung...

Psychology on the Rocks: What's Up Doc? is an anthology of essays dealing critically with the published writings of theorists like Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, B. F. Skinner, Paul McHugh, Sören Kierkegaard, Thomas Szasz, M. Scott Peck, and Bernie Siegel, as...

In an expanded and updated version, The Heart of UX guides the UX researcher into deeper states of connection - illustrating best practices in UX research, co-mingled with relevant instruction about neuroscience, psychology, and physics. The blend of...

To live a fulfilling life we must examine who we are at a deeper level. But how do we remember what it means to be human? How do we discover who we really are? Through the John Voris Method and the four life themes: Love, Justice, Wisdom, and Power. The...

Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. The book “The Method of Imagination” is aimed at expanding the knowledge about imaginative processes as...

Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. The book “The Method of Imagination” is aimed at expanding the knowledge about imaginative processes as...

Real People, Real Problems, Real Solutions offers a clear introduction to psychoanalytic practice from a Kleinian perspective and shows how the modern Kleinian works with the most taxing and least conforming of their patients.Illustrated by extensive...

First published in 1983. Psychological data are segments of life histories; as such they are ordered sequences of observations and by definition time series. Yet they are often anything but well behaved; what regularities and invariances they have are...

Guided by the Spirits is a case study of youth suicide in the Sault Sainte Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

Modeled after Barbara Byrne's other best-selling structural equation modeling (SEM) books, this practical guide reviews the basic concepts and applications of SEM using Mplus Versions 5 & 6. The author reviews SEM applications based on actual...

This new book introduces a new generation to the important insights of Paul Meehl. In addition to selected papers from the classic reader, Psychodiagnosis, this book features new material selected from Meehl's most influential writings. The resulting...

Covering both higher education and school education, this book contributes to the field of assessment by providing a systematic account of student self-assessment based on a consistent conceptualisation. It will be useful to policymakers, students and...

This book presents a groundbreaking approach to measurement from a mixed methodological perspective, reframing the concept of incommensurability to harmonize qualitative and quantitative data in analyses.

These pages contain more than 20 years of practical psychology experience in Spanish elite football. During those years, psychologist María Ruiz de Ona has become an expert in developing the potential of the player by developing the potential of the...

Känna igen, förstå och läsa av människors olika personligheter med hjälp av personlighetsforskning och personlighetsporträtt. Differentiell psykologi handlar om personligheten, som är dold och ett mysterium...

Der hier vorgelegte erste Band eines Handbuches zur Evaluierungsforschung wendet sich vor aHem an diejenigen, die sich mit Fragen der Entwicklung und Nutzung von Evaluierung und Evaluierungsforschung professionell, sei es in...

• Provides step-by-step guidance for students who will be conducting their first surveys to collect factual information, measure attitudes, and evaluate products, services, and programs using questionnaires. • Each chapter is structured around...

Psychology of Music is a flourishing area of research in the Western Balkans. However, much of its findings and insights have remained relatively unknown outside the region. Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills features recent...

This book provides an introduction to test equating, scaling and linking, including those concepts and practical issues that are critical for developers and all other testing professionals. In addition to statistical procedures, successful equating,...

By focusing primarily on the application of structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques in example cases and situations, this book provides an understanding and working knowledge of advanced SEM techniques with a minimum of mathematical derivations...

Although best known for experimental methods, social psychology also has a strong tradition of measurement. This volume seeks to highlight this tradition by introducing readers to measurement strategies that help drive social psychological research and...

This is the first comprehensive guide to the range of research methods available to applied psychologists. Ideally suited to students and researchers alike, and covering both quantitative and qualitative techniques, the book takes readers on a journey...

Practice-Based Research shows mental-health practitioners how to establish viable and productive research programs in routine clinical settings. Chapters written by experts in practice-based research use real-world examples to help clinicians work...

Across intellectual disciplines, the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics, the turn invites us to think...

Therapist Self-Disclosure gives clinicians professional and practical guidance on how and when to self-disclose in therapy. Chapters weave together theory, research, case studies, and applications to examine types of self-disclosure, timing, factors and...

Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family itself. Autoethnographers, students of these relationships, confront many silences in their attempts to...

Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series, The Qualitative Manifesto provides a "call to arms" for researchers from the leading figure in the qualitative research community, Norman Denzin. Denzin asks for a research...

The seemingly mundane events of daily life create a complex knowledge base of lived experience to be explored. But how does one research common experiences and account for context, culture, and identity? A dilemma arises because experience is not just...

A Guide to Qualitative Meta-synthesis provides accessible guidelines for conducting all phases of theory-generating meta-synthesis research, including data collection, analysis, and theory generation. It is a research methodology that is designed to...