The Psychology Research Handbook

A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants

Frederick T. L. Leong, James T. Austin

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781452217673
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9781071897492
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Research & Methodology in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

In the Third Edition of The Psychology Research Handbook editors Frederick T. L. Leong and James T. Austin have assembled experienced expert researchers to provide graduate students and research assistants with a comprehensive framework for conducting many types of psychology research. The book is organized around the idea of a "research script," following the step-by-step process of research planning, design, data collection, analysis, and disseminating research. Many chapters are coauthored by advanced graduate students to give their fellow students a sense of real-world research, adding to the clarity and practicality of many chapters. Students and instructors alike will appreciate chapters on topics typically missing from introductory methods texts, including applying for research grants, dealing with journal editors and reviewers, working within research teams, and conducting cross-cultural research. Structures such as recommended readings and exercises guide students to develop and expand their research skills. New chapters include Power and Evidence, IRB as Critical Collaborators in Research, Alternative Data Collection Strategies, Structural Equation Modeling and Replicability and Reproducibility. A comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to the entire research process, this book quickly and efficiently equips advanced students and research assistants to conduct a full research project.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction to the Psychology Research Handbook
• 2 The Research Process as a Script
• 3 Finding a Research Topic
• 4 Bibliographic Research
• 5 Reviewing and Evaluating a Research Article
• 6 Program Evaluation: Concepts and Perspectives
• 7 Designing a Research Study
• 8 Evaluating and Selecting Psychological Measures for Research Purposes
• 9 Designing Surveys and Questionnaires for Research
• 10 Scale Development
• 11 Applying Sampling Procedures
• 12 Power and Evidence
• 13 IRB as Critical Collaborators in Research
• 14 Conducting Mail and Digital Surveys
• 15 Conducting Telephone Surveys
• 16 Collecting Data in Groups
• 17 Alternative Data Collection Strategies
• 18 Cleaning up Data and Running Preliminary Analyses
• 19 Qualitative Research in Psychology
• 20 A Basic Guide to Statistical Research and Discovery: Planning and Selecting Statistical Analyses
• 21 Basic Statistical Analysis
• 22 Using Advanced Statistics
• 23 The Essence and Application of Structural Equation Modeling
• 24 Conducting a Meta-Analysis
• 25 Archival Data Sets: Revisiting Issues and Considerations
• 26 Writing in APA Style: Why and How
• 27 Writing Rough Drafts
• 28 Revising a Research Manuscript
• 29 Dealing With Journal Editors and Reviewers
• 30 Becoming Part of a Large and Successful Research Team
• 31 Multilevel Research
• 32 Computational Modeling
• 33 Applying for Research Grants
• 34 Cross-Cultural Research Methodology
• 35 Replicability and Reproducibility in Psychology
• 36 Applying Theories to Research: The Interplay of Theory and Research in Science
• 37 The Research Script: One Researcher’s View
• References
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors