| Course Notes |
- Notes 1 --
Introduction
- Notes 2 -- Science
- Further reading:
- Violation of the scientific attitude (and the harm it can
do): http://www.csicop.org/si/show/autism-vaccine_link_researcher_andrew_wakefield_accused_of_faking_his_data/
- Science versus pseudoscience and risky predictions:
Popper, K. R. (1962). Conjectures
and refutations: The growth of scientific knowledge. New York:
Basic Books. (Chapter 1)
- For more on Popper and problems with using risky
prediction as the basis of the difference between science and
pseudoscience (from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/
- Pathological science: Langmuir, I., & Hall, R. N.
(1989). Pathological Science. Physics
Today, 42, 36-48. doi:10.1063/1.881205
- The seven warning signs of bogus science: Park, R. L.
(2003). The seven warning signs of bogus science. The Chronicle of
Higher Education, 49, B20. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/The-Seven-Warning-Signs-of/13674
- Examples of people doing the work for you:
- Silver, L. B. (1987). The “magic cure”: A review of the
current controversial approaches for treating learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 20,
498-504, 512. doi:10.1177/002221948702000808
- Lilienfeld, S. O., & Landfield, K. (2008). Science
and pseudoscience in law enforcement: A user-friendly primer. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35,
1215-1230. doi:10.1177/0093854808321526
- Notes 3 -- Hypotheses
- Notes 4 -- Ethics
- Notes 5 -- Measurement
- Notes 6 -- Kinds of Design
- Notes 7 -- Observation Research
- Notes 8 -- Survey Research
- Notes 9 -- Simple Experiments
- Further reading:
- Why single blind:
- Rosenthal, R., & Fode, K. L. (1963). The effect of
experimenter bias on the performance of the albino rat. Behavioral Science, 8, 183-189.
- Rosenthal, R., Friedman, N., & Kurland, D. (1966).
Instruction-reading behavior of the experimenter as an unintended
determinant of experimental results. Journal
of Experimental Research in Personality, 1, 221-226.
- Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson, L. (1966). Teachers'
expectancies: Determinants of pupls' IQ gains. Psychological Reports, 19, 115-118.
- Rosenthal, R., Kohn, P., Greenfield, P. M., & Carota,
N. (1966). Data desirability, experimenter expectancy, and the results
of psychological research. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 3, 20-27. doi:10.1037/h0022604
- Demand characteristics:
- King, R. N., & Koehler, D. J. (2000). Illusory
correlations in graphological inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Applied, 6, 336-348. doi:10.1037/1076-898X.6.4.336
- Orne, M. T. (1962). On the social psychology of the
psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand
characteristics and their implications. American Psychologist, 17, 776-783.
doi:10.1037/h0043424
- Rozin, P., Millman, L., & Nemeroff, C. (1986).
Operation of the laws of sympathetic magic in disgust and other
domains. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 50, 703-712. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.50.4.703
- Notes 10 -- Within Participants
Designs
- Notes 11 -- Designs with More
Than Two Groups, One IV
- Notes 12 -- Factorial Designs
- Notes 14 -- Non-experimental
Designs
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Project data
Reference information
To cite an
online source: Author, A. A. (Year). Title of work. Retrieved from
source.
For example, Hyman, R. (1999). How
people are fooled by ideomotor action. Retrieved
from http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ideomotor.html.
Remember: You need a citation for every
statement of fact. If you took it from somewhere and you fail to cite
it, that's plagiarism. Everything you cite needs to go into the
reference list so that someone could find it.
Articles (placed on the shelf outside my office, JH 348,
borrow only from the shelf, don't keep them)
Web pages and articles
I
could
direct link
Articles you can get
electronically
- (5) Barbaranelli, C., & Caprara, G. V. (2000).
Measuring the big five in self-report and other ratings: A
multitrait-multimethod study. European
Journal of Psychological Assessment, 16, 31-43. doi:10.1027//1015-5759.16.1.31
- (12) Dmitruk, V. M., Collins, R. W., & Clinger, D. L.
(1973). The "Barnum Effect" and acceptance of negative personal
evaluation. Journal of Consulting
and Clinical Psychology, 41, 192-194. doi:10.1037/h0035106
- (1) Furnham, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Callahan, I.
(2003). Does graphology predict personality and intelligence? Individual Differences Research, 1,
78-94. (get full text from PsycInfo)
- (9) Golfried, M. R., & Kent, R. N. (1972). Traditional
versus behavioral personality assessment: A comparison of
methodological and theoretical assumptions. Psychological Bulletin, 77,
409-420. doi:10.1037/h0032714
(PsycInfo has Golfried, but the article has Goldfried)
- (2) Greasley, P. (2000). Handwriting analysis and
personality assessment: The creative use of analogy, symbolism, and
metaphor. European Psychologist, 5,
44-51. doi:10.1027//1016-9040.5.1.44
- (8) Grucza, R. A., Goldberg, L. R. (2007). The comparative
validity of 11 modern personality inventories: Predictions of
behavioral acts, informant reports, and clinical indicators. Journal of Personality Assessment, 89,
167-187. (get full text from PsycInfo)
- (11) Guastello, S. J., Guastello, D. D., & Craft, L.
L. (1989). Assessment of the Barnum Effect in computer-based test
interpretations. The Journal of
Psychology, 123, 477-484. (get full text from PsycInfo)
- (16) Ivtzan, I. (2007). Tarot cards: A literature review
and evaluation of psychic versus psychological explanations. Journal of Parapsychology, 71,
139-149. (get full text from PsycInfo)
- (18) Logue, M. B., Sher, K. J., & Frensch, P. A.
(1992). Purported characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics: A
possible "Barnum Effect". Professional
Psychology: Research and Practice, 23, 226-232. doi:10.1037/0735-7028.23.3.226
- (3) Pascal, G. R., & Suttell, B. (1947). Testing the
claims of a graphologist. Journal of
Personality, 16, 192-197. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1947.tb01081.x
- (7) Roberts, B. W. (2009). Back to the future: Personality
and assessment and personality development. Journal of Research in Personality, 43,
137-145. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2008.12.015
- (13) Rogers, P., & Soule, J. (2009). Cross-cultural
differences in the
acceptance of Barnum profiles supposedly derived from Western versus
Chinese astrology. Journal of
Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40, 381-399. doi:10.1177/0022022109332843
Independent
project ideas
Instead of the current lab manual, you may choose
project ideas from this list:
- Superstition (Skinner's pigeon study)
- Skinner, B. F. (1948). ‘Superstition’ in the pigeon. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 38,
168-172. doi:10.1037/h0055873
- Detecting people staring at you
- Baker, R. A. (2000). Can we tell when someone is staring
at us? Skeptical Inquirer, 24,
34-40. (Academic OneFile)
- The Forer/Barnum effect
- Forer, B. R. (1949). The fallacy of personal validation:
A classroom demonstration of gullibility. The Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology, 44, 118-123. doi:10.1037/h0059240
- Heuristics and biases in support of paranormal belief
- Bressan, P. (2002). The connection between random
sequences, everyday coincidences, and belief in the paranormal. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16,
17-34. doi:10.1002/acp.754
- Personality and paranormal belief
- Auton, H. R., Pope, J., & Seeger, G. (2003). It isn’t
that strange: Paranormal belief and personality traits. Social Behavior and Personality, 31,
711-720. doi:10.2224/sbp.2003.31.7.711
- Graphology and personality
- Furnham, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Callahan, I.
(2003). Does graphology predict personality and intelligence? Individual Differences Research, 1,
78-94. (PsycInfo)
- Social influences on paranormal belief
- Markovsky, B., & Thye, S. R. (2001). Social influence
on paranormal beliefs. Sociological
Perspectives, 44, 21-44. doi:10.1525/sop.2001.44.1.21
- False memory and paranormal belief
- French, C. C. (2003). Fantastic memories: The relevance
of research into eyewitness testimony and false memories for reports of
anomalous experiences. Journal of
Consciousness Studies, 10, 153-174. (ILL or see me)
- Wiseman, R., Greening, E., & Smith, M. (2003). Belief
in the paranormal and suggestion in the séance room. British Journal of Psychology, 94,
285-297. doi:10.1348/000712603767876235
- ReverseSpeech
- Kreiner, D. S., Altis, N. A., & Voss, C. W. (2003). A
test of the effect of reverse speech on priming. The Journal of Psychology, 137,
224-232. (PsycInfo)
- Langston, W., & Anderson, J. C. (2000). Talking
Back(wards): A test of the Reverse Speech hypothesis: Are listeners
able to detect the emotional content of backward speech? Skeptic, 8, 30-35. (Academic
OneFile)
- The ideomotor effect and paranormal belief
- Hyman, R. (1999). The mischief-making of ideomotor
action. The Scientific Review of
Alternative Medicine, 3, 34-43. (ILL or see me)
- Magical thinking
- Pronin, E., Wegner, D. M., McCarthy, K., & Rodriguez,
S. (2006). Everyday magical powers: The role of apparent mental
causation in the overestimation of personal influence. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 91, 218-231. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.91.2.218
Writing papers
IRB resources
Sample exams
Finding scales and measures
- Check out the various volumes of the Directory of
Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures in the Reserve Room. These
books list over 6,000 test instruments with references. You
can read the blurb for the latest volume here.
Evaluating sources
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