Research Methods for Social Psychology Reviews
Research Methods for Social Psychology
Research Methods for Social Psychology teaches students to think like an experimental social psychologist. Striking a balance between theoretical sophistication and hands-on activities and exercises, this engaging text offers a friendly approach to methodology and a successful means of motivating students to design and execute their own social psychological research.
- Active learning activities on social psychology in each chapter, as well as thought exercises at the end of each chapter
- Guidance on developing social psychology research topics, advice on ethics reviews of research projects, instructions on how to design independent and dependent variables, and assistance with performing a post-experimental interviews with participants
- A stand alone chapter on basic data analysis, in addition to directions for putting statistical results into words
- Guidance on writing APA-style summaries of social psychology experiments, as well as giving oral and poster presentations; includes a sample annotated APA-style lab report
- Instructor test bank with questions and answers for each chapter available at www.wiley.com/go/dunn
List Price: $ 48.92
Price: $ 48.92
Anonymous said,
Wrote on September 10, 2011 @ 12:16 pm
Comprehensive and easy to read,
I taught a senior thesis course on experimental social psychology for the first time this semester as a graduate instructor and this book was very helpful! Unfortunately, it was too late in the semester to assign this book to my students, but I used it extensively to create my lectures and assignments. I will definitely consider making this book required for my students if I teach this course again in the future. If I had to choose between assigning this book and the APA Style Manual, I have to say, I would choose this one :). There is already plenty of free information about the APA style on the internet.
This book includes detailed descriptions of all parts of experimental research, from deciding what to research, designing an experiment, writing up a report, and presenting the findings. It was easy to flip through the book to find information on specific stages of research. Also, I think this book is easy to read–not overwhelming for undergrads.
The only thing that would make this book even more comprehensive is a more detailed section on data analysis using SPSS, but this is a very minor issue, as plenty of books already exist on using SPSS.
I’m hoping that this book would be printed in paperback in the future or would otherwise go down in price.
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