Experimental Design in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-85702-827-3
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 1624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 3084 g

Reihe: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods

This collection brings together literature to inform researchers about the many issues that have influenced and continue to refine the use of experimental designs in the behavioral and social sciences. The collection includes articles, primarily from scholarly journals, that highlight perspectives of recognized leaders on historical, theoretical, methodological, and pragmatic considerations affecting the role of experimental designs within the behavioral and social sciences. The selected articles are problem-focused, include illustrative examples and provide comprehensible input for a broad audience spanning multiple disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: THE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH
PART ONE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EXPERIMENTS IN THE BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Excerpts from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation - John Stuart Mill
Rules for the Demonstration of Sociological Proof and Conclusion - Emile Durkheim
Design for Social Experiments - F.S. Chapin
The Role of Theory in Experimental Psychology - E.G. Boring
Social Experiments - Henry Riecken and Robert Boruch
The Delayed Birth of Social Experiments - Robert Brown
PART TWO: THE NOMOTHETIC-IDIOGRAPHIC DEBATE ON THE NATURE OF BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences - Alfred Schutz
'Nomothetic' and 'Idiographic' - James Lamiell
Contrasting Windelband's Understanding with Contemporary Usage
History in Search of Science - Immanuel Wallerstein
Nomothetic Science and Idiographic History in 20th Century Americanist Anthropology - R. Lee Lyman and Michael O'Brien
PART THREE: LABORATORY VERSUS NATURAL SETTINGS IN THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Natural Experiment, Ecology and Culture - M. Freilich
Reforms as Experiments - D.T. Campbell
Situated Experiments in Organizations - J. Greenberg and E.C. Tomlinson
Transplanting the Lab to the Field
Improving Causal Inference - T. Dunning
Strengths and Limitations of Natural Experiments
PART FOUR: CONSTRAINTS ON EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN IN THE BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Cognitive Science - Herbert Simon
The Newest Science of the Artificial
Social Experiments - H.W. Riecken and R.F. Boruch
Economics in the Laboratory - V.L. Smith
Experimental Methods in Political Science - Rose McDermott
How Hard is Hard Science, How Soft is Soft Science? - L.V. Hedges
The Empirical Cumulativeness of Research
VOLUME TWO: HYPOTHESIS-TESTING AND INFERENCE IN THE BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
PART ONE: ON THE HISTORY OF HYPOTHESIS-TESTING IN THE BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Sir Ronald Fisher and the Design of Experiments - F. Yates
Statistical Methods and Scientific Induction - Ronald Fisher
'Inductive Behavior' as a Basic Concept of Philosophy of Science - J. Neyman
The Fisher, Neyman-Pearson Theories of Testing Hypotheses - E.L. Lehmann
One Theory or Two?
PART TWO: REASONING PROCESSES IN BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE HYPOTHESIS-TESTING
Doing the Impossible - Lola Lopes
A Note on Induction and the Experience of Randomness
Confirmation, Disconfirmation and Information in Hypothesis-Testing - Joshua Klayman and Young-Won Ha
Judging Probable Cause - Hillel Einhorn and Robin Hogarth
Statistical Analysis and the Illusion of Objectivity - James Berger and Donald Berry
PART THREE: NULL HYPOTHESIS SIGNIFICANCE TESTING IN BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH
The Earth Is Round - Jacob Cohen
The 'File Drawer Problem' and Tolerance for Null Results - Robert Rosenthal
The Insignificance of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing - Jeff Gill
Mindless Statistics - Gerd Gigerenzer
What to Believe - John Kruschke
Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis
PART FOUR: POWER AND EFFECT SIZE IN BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES HYPOTHESIS-TESTING
'Statistical,' 'Practical', and 'Clinical' - Bruce Thompson
How Many Kinds of Significance Do Counselors Need to Consider?
A Power Primer - Jacob Cohen
Effect Magnitude - Roger Kirk
A Different Focus
Effect Sizes - R.L. Rosnow and R. Rosenthal
Why, When and How to Use Them
VOLUME THREE: CONTROLS AND CONFOUNDS IN BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EXPERIMENTS
PART ONE: SAMPLE SELECTION AND ASSIGNMENT IN BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
Belief in the Law of Small Numbers - Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman
Models for Sampl

Über Autor(innen)

Schneider, Sandra
Sandra Schneider (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Professor of Psychology and former Associate Vice President for Research at the University of South Florida. She has also held positions at the National Science Foundation, serving most recently as Division Director within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. Dr. Schneider's research focuses on cognitive and motivational processes in decision making, with an emphasis on reference dependence, goal setting, and risk taking. She has published multiple theoretical and research articles, and is co-editor of the 2003 Cambridge University Press volume, Emerging Perspectives in Decision Research.