Click here to access a page full of career information for psychology majors put together by Belmont College's career center.

Click here to see an alternative "e-source" to the textbook.

Click here to access the "RadioLab" podcast on deception that I mentioned in class.

Social Scientific Thinking

• Online demonstration of correlation coefficents.
• Boeckmann, R. Number of pirates and global average temperature
  
• Atlantic Monthly article about a Harvard longitudinal study - an excellent example of idiographic research
• An article from the Washington Post relevant to confirmation bias
• Plait, P. (October 7, 2012). TEDX talks: Some ideas are not worth spreading.
• Lilienfeld, S. O. (2012). Public skepticism of psychology: Why many people perceive the study of human behavior as unscientific. American Psychologist, 67(2), 111-129. doi:10.1037/a0023963
• Waterman, A. S. (2013). The humanistic psychology–positive psychology divide: Contrasts in philosophical foundations. American Psychologist, 68(3), 124-133. doi:10.1037/a0032168
• Pozios, Kambryn & Beder (August 25, 2013). Does media violence lead to the real thing? New York Times.

Measuring attitudes

• Defintions of validty taken from Research Methods Knowledge Base
• Professor Gosling's list of scales
• Cohen, N. (July 8, 2009). A Rorschah cheat sheet on Wikipedia. New York Times.

Survey research: Asking questions

• Eysenbach, G. (2004). Improving the quality of web surveys: The checklist for reporting resutls of internet e-surveys. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6, e34.
• Babbie, E. Guidelines for design and implementing internet surveys.

Survey research: Analyzing data

• NPR story about the use of statistical sampling for the next U.S. census
  
• Marinucci, C. (8.22/2012). Smartphones revolutionzing political polling. San Francisco Chronicle.
• Rampell, C. (May 5, 2011). Discovered: The happiest man in Amercia. New York Times.

Experimental design

• Online randomizer
• Begley, S. (January 29, 2010). The depressing news about anti-depressants. Newsweek.
  

Observational methods

• Kaufman, L (January 30, 2012). Timeless book may require some fact checking. New York Times.
• Eakin, E. (February 13, 2013). How Napoleon Chagnon became our most controversial anthropologist. New York Times.
• Kaiminer, A. (November 30, 2012). Columbia's Gang Scholar lives on the edge. New York Times.
  

Applied and evaluation research

• Shackman, G. What is program evaluation?
• Levinson, M. & Randall, T. (October 6, 2010). Athletes boost business for energy bracelets. San Franscico Gate.

Qualitative research

• Charmaz, K. (October 7, 2010) What is grounded theory?
• Chapter from Holloway, I, & Wheeler, S. (2009). Qualitative Research in Nursing and Healthcare.
• Chapter from Hancock, B. (1998). Trent focus for Research & Devlpmt in Primary Health Care
• Hamilton, L. (2007). Trading on heterosexuality: College women's gender strategies and homophobia. Gender & Society, 21(2), 145-172. doi:10.1177/0891243206297604
  
• Rockwell, D., & Giles, D. C. (2009). Being a celebrity: A phenomenology of fame. Journal Of Phenomenological Psychology, 40(2), 178-210. doi:10.1163/004726609X12482630041889

Research ethics

• NPR interview with the military psychologist involved with the CIA interrogation training
• Click here to read an interesting NYT story about how scientists sometimes study their own children.
• A story about science and funding from ON THE MEDIA (NPR, 9/9/07
• A Moodle book (authored by Jessica Parker, Education) about IRB applications and requirements
• Bhattacharjee, Y. (April 26, 2013). The mind of a con man. New York Times.

Heather Smith, Ph.D.
Psychology Department
Stevenson 3089
664-2587
smithh@sonoma.edu

Course assignments:
Research review paper
Three questions assignment
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3

Helpful information:
Guide to APA reference format
Sample APA style paper