Experimental design in the behavioral and social sciences/
Experimental design in the behavioral and social sciences/
Schneider. Sandra L. [ed.]
- 1st.ed.
- Los Angeles: SAGE, 2013.
- 353
Excerpts from The Rules of Sociological Method; Design for Social Experiments; The Role of Theory in Experimental Psychology; The Delayed Birth of Social Experiments; ‘Nomothetic’ and ‘Idiographic’: Contrasting Windelband's Understanding with Contemporary Usage; History in Search of Science; Nomothetic Science and Idiographic History in Twentieth-Century Americanist Anthropology; Social Experiments; Situated Experiments in Organizations: Transplanting the Lab to the Field; Improving Causal Inference: Strengths and Limitations of Natural Experiments; Economics in the Laboratory; Experimental Methods in Political Science; How Hard Is Hard Science, How Soft Is Soft Science? The Empirical Cumulativeness of Research; Statistical Methods and Scientific Induction; “Inductive Behavior” as a Basic Concept of Philosophy of Science; The Fisher, Neyman-Pearson Theories of Testing Hypotheses: One Theory or Two?; Confirmation, Disconfirmation, and Information in Hypothesis Testing; Judging Probable Cause; Statistical Analysis and the Illusion of Objectivity; The Insignificance of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing; Mindless Statistics; What to Believe: Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis; A Power Primer; Effect Magnitude: A Different Focus; Effect Sizes: Why, When, and How to Use Them; Models for Sample Selection Bias; Assessing the Case for Social Experiments; Misunderstanding Analysis of Covariance; Natural and Quasi-Experiments in Economics; The Delphi List: A Criteria List for Quality Assessment of Randomized Clinical Trials for Conducting Systematic Reviews Developed by Delphi Consensus; The Politics of Random Assignment: Implementing Studies and Affecting Policy; Designing Research for Application; External Validity Is More Than Skin Deep: Some Answers to Criticisms of Laboratory Experiments; The Challenge of Representative Design in Psychology and Economics; Teacher Expectations and Self-fulfilling Prophecies: Knowns and Unknowns, Resolved and Unresolved Controversies; A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect: Recent Advances and Current Thought; Checking the Success of Manipulations in Marketing Experiments; Unfair Comparisons; Quality Indicators for Group Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in Special Education; Within-subjects Designs: To Use or Not to Use?; How to Show That 9 > 221: Collect Judgments in a Between-subjects Design; Experimental Methods: Between-subject and Within-subject Design; The Moderator–Mediator Variable Distinction in Social Psychological Research: Conceptual, Strategic, and Statistical Considerations; Establishing a Causal Chain: Why Experiments Are Often More Effective Than Mediational Analyses in Examining Psychological Processes; On the Use of Structural Equation Models in Experimental Designs; Inference and Hierarchical Modeling in the Social Sciences; Understanding Research Synthesis (Meta-Analysis); Meta-Analysis and the Development of Knowledge; Ethical and Professional Dimensions of Socially Sensitive Research; Science and Ethics in Conducting, Analyzing, and Reporting Psychological Research; Reflections and Recommendations on Research Ethics in Developing Countries; Human Research and Data Collection via the Internet; Mixed Methods Research Designs in Counseling Psychology; The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science; Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems
9780857028273 (hbk. : 4 vol. set)
300.072 / 300
Excerpts from The Rules of Sociological Method; Design for Social Experiments; The Role of Theory in Experimental Psychology; The Delayed Birth of Social Experiments; ‘Nomothetic’ and ‘Idiographic’: Contrasting Windelband's Understanding with Contemporary Usage; History in Search of Science; Nomothetic Science and Idiographic History in Twentieth-Century Americanist Anthropology; Social Experiments; Situated Experiments in Organizations: Transplanting the Lab to the Field; Improving Causal Inference: Strengths and Limitations of Natural Experiments; Economics in the Laboratory; Experimental Methods in Political Science; How Hard Is Hard Science, How Soft Is Soft Science? The Empirical Cumulativeness of Research; Statistical Methods and Scientific Induction; “Inductive Behavior” as a Basic Concept of Philosophy of Science; The Fisher, Neyman-Pearson Theories of Testing Hypotheses: One Theory or Two?; Confirmation, Disconfirmation, and Information in Hypothesis Testing; Judging Probable Cause; Statistical Analysis and the Illusion of Objectivity; The Insignificance of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing; Mindless Statistics; What to Believe: Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis; A Power Primer; Effect Magnitude: A Different Focus; Effect Sizes: Why, When, and How to Use Them; Models for Sample Selection Bias; Assessing the Case for Social Experiments; Misunderstanding Analysis of Covariance; Natural and Quasi-Experiments in Economics; The Delphi List: A Criteria List for Quality Assessment of Randomized Clinical Trials for Conducting Systematic Reviews Developed by Delphi Consensus; The Politics of Random Assignment: Implementing Studies and Affecting Policy; Designing Research for Application; External Validity Is More Than Skin Deep: Some Answers to Criticisms of Laboratory Experiments; The Challenge of Representative Design in Psychology and Economics; Teacher Expectations and Self-fulfilling Prophecies: Knowns and Unknowns, Resolved and Unresolved Controversies; A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect: Recent Advances and Current Thought; Checking the Success of Manipulations in Marketing Experiments; Unfair Comparisons; Quality Indicators for Group Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research in Special Education; Within-subjects Designs: To Use or Not to Use?; How to Show That 9 > 221: Collect Judgments in a Between-subjects Design; Experimental Methods: Between-subject and Within-subject Design; The Moderator–Mediator Variable Distinction in Social Psychological Research: Conceptual, Strategic, and Statistical Considerations; Establishing a Causal Chain: Why Experiments Are Often More Effective Than Mediational Analyses in Examining Psychological Processes; On the Use of Structural Equation Models in Experimental Designs; Inference and Hierarchical Modeling in the Social Sciences; Understanding Research Synthesis (Meta-Analysis); Meta-Analysis and the Development of Knowledge; Ethical and Professional Dimensions of Socially Sensitive Research; Science and Ethics in Conducting, Analyzing, and Reporting Psychological Research; Reflections and Recommendations on Research Ethics in Developing Countries; Human Research and Data Collection via the Internet; Mixed Methods Research Designs in Counseling Psychology; The Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science; Lab Experiments for the Study of Social-Ecological Systems
9780857028273 (hbk. : 4 vol. set)
300.072 / 300