Psychological methodology

Handbook of Computational Social Science, Volume 2

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"The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field, showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods, and draws from specific case studies to demonstra…

Chapter 19 Unsupervised Methods: Clustering Methods

by Pöge, Andreas, Bacher, Johann, Wenzig, Knut

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The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field, showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods, and draws from specific case studies to demonstrat…

Chapter 21 From Frequency Counts to Contextualized Word Embeddings: The Saussurean turn in automatic content analysis

by Wiedemann, Gregor, Fedtke, Cornelia

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Text, the written representation of human thought and communication in natural language, has been a major source of data for social science research since its early beginnings. While quantitative approaches seek to make certain contents measurable, for example through word count…

How to Structure a Thesis, Report or Paper: A Guide for Students

by Ormrod, Robert P.

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How to Structure a Thesis, Report or Paper provides concise practical guidance for students to help make their writing more structured at any level. It assists students in demonstrating what they have learned in the relevant course or degree programme in a way that is accessible…

Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Ba…

by Leavy, Patricia

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With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a thoroughly revised second edition. The prior edition's user-friendly features are augmented by a new companion website with worksheet…

Qualitative research methods in psychology: combining core approaches

by Frost, Nollaig

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This text provides research students with practical guidance and thoughtful debate on carrying out qualitative research in psychology. It is written in a clear manner designed to support students from the beginning of their research experience at undergraduate level through to p…

Writing the structures of the subject: Lacan and topology

by Greenshields, Will

fromPalgrave Lacan series

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This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan's controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. In providing both an introduction to a fundamental component of Lacan's theories, as well as reading…

Survey scales: a guide to development, analysis, and reporting

by Johnson, Robert L., (Robert Lewis), MORGAN, Grant B.

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"Synthesizing the literature from the survey and measurement fields, this book explains how to develop closed-response survey scales that will accurately capture such constructs as attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors. It provides guidelines to help applied researchers or graduate s…

Better Late Than Never: the Reparative Therapeutic Relationship in Regres…

by Lorraine Price

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This book is concerned with an enigmatic set of experiences that theorists in the Object Relations tradition have characterized as regression to dependence, a return to a primitive, pre-verbal relational process presenting in some clients in psychotherapy. It highlights the effe…

Einführung in die Hotel- und Barpsychologie

by Lampert, Claus

fromEssentials

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Claus Lampert ermöglicht den Auszubildenden und Mitarbeitern in der Hotel- und Gastronomiebranche mittels Hotel- und Barpsychologie einen Einblick in die Grundlagen der Psychologie. Waren sie bei psychologischen Fragestellungen bisher auf ihre Intuition und Erfahrung angewiesen,…

Small Sample Size Solutions (Open Access)

by Miocević, Milica, Van de Schoot, Rens

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Researchers often have difficulties collecting enough data to test their hypotheses,either because target groups are small or hard to access, or because data collectionentails prohibitive costs. Such obstacles may result in data sets that are too small forthe complexity of the s…

Small Sample Size Solutions (Open Access)

by Miocević, Milica, Van de Schoot, Rens

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Researchers often have difficulties collecting enough data to test their hypotheses, either because target groups are small or hard to access, or because data collectionentails prohibitive costs. Such obstacles may result in data sets that are too small forthe complexity of the …

Research ethics for students in the social sciences

by Bos, Jaap

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This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a variety of didactical tools will aid the student to grasp th…

Neural circuits of innate behaviors

by Wang, Hao

fromAdvances in experimental medicine and biology

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This book summarizes the latest research findings in the neurocircuitry of innate behaviors, covering major topics such as innate fear, aggression, feeding, reward, social interaction, parental care, spatial navigation, and sleep-wake regulation. For decades, humans have been fa…

Forensic mental health evaluations in the digital age: a practitioner's guide to using internet-based da…

by Batastini, Ashley B., Vitacco, Michael J.

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This is the first book devoted to the use of social media and other internet-derived data in forming forensic clinical opinions of behavior. Designed for mental health practitioners, it outlines the challenges and the benefits of incorporating digital information in forensic ass…

A Student Guide to Writing an Undergraduate Psychology Honors Thesis

by Seligman, Ross, Mitchell, Lindsay

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A Student Guide to Writing an Undergraduate Psychology Honors Thesis takes students through the entire process of creating a full-scale research project, from selecting a topic, choosing an experimental or correlational design, to writing and presenting their paper. The book off…