Psychology 644 - Methods for Social Research

Welcome to the homepage for Psychology 644. Here you will find notes posted for the course, links to additional readings, and various tidbits you might find helpful while learning the course material.

Archived Classes

Spring 2012

Syllabus

You can download the latest edition of the syllabus here

Review template

Each reviewer will be asked to submit reviews no later than Monday prior to the due date. Below is the URL where you will submit your reviews. The review is structured so you learn to pay attention to all aspects of the paper. As you progress through the class, each section will make more sense. Do the best you can with each section. My aim is to teach you to be more thoughtful scientific reviews and, as a result, more thoughtful scientists.

Critique Form

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Critique Summary

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Be sure to save all the summaries. We will discuss each one in turn so if you have it available, you will follow the discussion with ease.

Post Review Meeting Ratings

Please submit your ratings for all the articles we discussed during the review on this form - Click HERE

Topics and Readings

1. Introduction

• Tips for Reviewing
• Cronbach (1957). Two disciplines of scientific psychology
• Maher (1978) Reading, writing, and reviewing papers in psychology

2. General Design

• Campbell and Stanley (1966) - Part 1 and Part 2
• Consult this fine reference material

CRITIQUE 1 - Articles assigned to teams of 4 or 5

Due Date: 9/10/2012 - no later than 9pm

• Team 1: Olmstead, Goodman, Dimauro, Folk, Carter
• Team 2: McKendrick, Trump, Bellows, Disabato
• Team 3: Powlen, Scurlock, McGarry, Payne, LaRocque
• Team 4: Kelley, Monfort, Baccus, Falcone
• Team 5: Shear, Schmerold, Kidwell, Mead

3. Philosophy of Science

• Chamberlin (1890)
• Gholson and Barker (1985)
• Meehl and Scriven (1956)
• Dawes (1993)
• Meehl (1997)

4. Randomization and Experimental Design

• Dehue (1997)
• Hsu (1989)
• Meehl (1967)
• Rodgers (1999)
• Rubin (1978)
• Rubin (1974)
• Shadish and Ragsdale (1996)

5. Sampling

• Berk (1983)
• Blankertz (1998)
• Cook and Shadish (1994)
• Shadish (1995)
• Wright (2006)

CRITIQUE 2 - Articles assigned to teams of 4 or 5

Critique Due Date: 10/15/2012

• Team 1: Kidwell, Monfort, Dimauro, Powlen
• Team 2: Trump, Kelley, Falcone, McKendrick, Shear
• Team 3: Disabato, Bellows, Mead, Scurlock, Goodman
• Team 4: Baccus, Payne, Carter, Folk
• Team 5: Schmerold, Olmstead, McGarry, LaRocque

6. Measurement, Variables and Hypothesis Testing

• Meehl (1978)
• Kaufman, Cooper, and McGee (1997)
• Kaplan (1990)
• Sechrest (unpublished)

7. Quasi-Experimentation

• Bobrow (2008)
• Grossman and Tierney (1993)
• Miller and Chapman (2001)

CRITIQUE 3 - Articles assigned to teams of 4 or 5

Critique Due Date: 11/12/2012

• Team 1: Bellows, Disabato, Shear, Mead
• Team 2: Baccus, Kidwell, Olmstead, Kelley
• Team 3: Powlen, Schmerold, Monfort, Carter
• Team 4: Goodman, McKendrick, Trump, Scurlock, McGarry
• Team 5: Folk, DiMauro, Falcone, Payne

8. Causal Generalization and Construct Validity

• Mook (1983)
• Borsboom, Mellenberg, and van Heerden (2004)
• Sechrest (2005)
• Campbell and Fiske (1959)
• Schmidt, Gast-Rosenberg, and Hunter (1980)
• Schmidt (1992)
• Schmidt (2010)

9. Causal Inference

• Einhorn and Hogarth (1986)
• Besharov and Germanis (1999)
• Edelman (2001)
• Diamond (1989)
• Scriven (1971)

10. Causal Analysis

• Waller and Meehl (2002)
• Sechrest (1985)
• Petticrew et al (2005)
• Platt (1964)
• O’Donohue and Buchanan (2001)

CRITIQUE 4 - Articles assigned to teams of 4 or 5

Due Date: 12/10/2012

• Team 1: Scurlock, Shear, McGarry, Powlen
• Team 2: DiMauro, Olmstead, Bellows, Disabato
• Team 3: Folk, Schmerold, Falcone, Monfort
• Team 4: Trump, Kidwell, McKendrick, Payne
• Team 5: Kelley, Carter, Baccus, Mead, Goodman