Doing Social Psychology Research (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Breakwell, Glynis M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This practical text introduces students to all the principal data collection methods and data analyses used in social psychology. * * A student-friendly introduction to the data collection methods and data analyses used in social psychology. * Describes the principal research methods and shows how they can be applied to particular research questions. * Each chapter is written by a psychologist well known for using the method they describe. * Methods presented include conducting surveys, constructing questionnaires, facilitating focus groups, running interviews, and using archival recordings. * Topics used to illustrate these methods include identity processes, attribution, stereotyping, attitude change, social influence, communication, and group dynamics. * Includes step-by-step exercises for students and notes for course leaders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470777091
• Artikelnr.: 38211621

Autorenporträt

Glynis M. Breakwell is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath. She is a social psychologist specializing in research and identity processes, risk communication, and military cultures. Her previous publications include Coping with Threatened Identities (1986), Interviewing (1990) and Research Methods in Psychology (with Sean Hammond and Chris Fife-Shaw, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors.
1. Introduction: Approaches To Data Collection And Data Analysis. (Glynis
M. Breakwell).
2. Experimental Research Designs. (Lorne Hulbert).
3. Measuring Optimistic Bias. (Chris Fife-Schaw And Julie Barnett).
4. A Quasi-Experimental Study Of Stereotyping. (Adam Rutland).
5. The Design And Analysis Of Quasi-Experimental Field Research. (Eamonn
Ferguson And Peter Bibby).
6. The Impact Of Social Value Orientation On Decision-Making In Social
Dilemmas: A Survey Exercise. (Mark Van Vugt And Richard H. Gramzow).
7. On Using Questionnaires To Measure Attitudes. (Geoffrey Haddock).
8. Modelling Identity Motives Using Multilevel Regression. (Vivian L.
Vignoles).
9. The Analysis Of Equivocation In Political Interviews. (Peter Bull).
10. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. (Jonathan A. Smith And Mike
Osborn).
11. Cognitive Mapping Generating Theories Of Psychological Phenomena From
Verbal Accounts And Presenting Them Diagrammatically. (Tom Farsides).
12. The Multiple Sorting Procedure. (Julie Barnett).
13. The Laddering Technique. (Susan Miles And Gene Rowe).
14. Focus Groups. (Sue Wilkinson).
Index.

Rezensionen

"An indispensible volume for research training in socialpsychology, this book impresses for the wealth of teaching andresearch experience underpinning every chapter, confidently leadingthe student from introductory through to advanced aspects of a widerange of methods. Doing Social Psychology successfullyconveys not only the rationale, key decisions and practicalitieswhich every student should know but also communicates theexcitement and commitment which makes for high quality research."Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology,LSE

"With an impressive cast of contributors and a comprehensivetreatment of the research approaches on offer in the discipline,this book should earn the gratitude of social psychology teacherseverywhere. Doing social psychology is about using the tools ofresearch to answer particular questions with evidence; this bookwill help and encourage students to open the tool box." NickEmler, Professor of Social Psychology, University ofSurrey

"This revised and extended volume presents clear and practicalguidance on learning how to use the research methods that are mostwidely used by contemporary British social psychologists. In theprocess, it also provides useful introductions to many of theircurrent cutting-edge research topics." Peter Smith, Professor ofSocial Psychology, University of Sussex

"Readers of the book would argue that the most outstandingfeature of this text is its stand-alone usefulness as a source ofreferences... Used correctly the contents of this book will provehelpful for new social psychology researchers wanting to betterunderstand one of the particular research methods included and gainconfidence through practice in its application." Psychology inSociety, Issue 31, 2005