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1/20
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H O L I D A Y Monday, 1/20 |
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Course introduction |
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1/27
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Science--How do we know things?
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Longino (1990) (I'll email the relevant
parts.)
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Snook, B., Cullen, R. M.,
Bennell, C., Taylor, P. J., & Gendreau, P. (2008). The
criminal profiling illusion: What's behind the smoke and
mirrors? Criminal Justice
and Behavior, 35, 1257-1276. doi: 10.1177/0093854808321528
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Research goal: Choose project topic
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2/3
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What is science?
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Science versus pseudoscience and risky
predictions: Popper, K. R. (1962). Conjectures and refutations: The growth of
scientific knowledge. New York: Basic Books.
(Chapter 1)
http://www.nemenmanlab.org/~ilya/images/0/07/Popper-1953.pdf
For more on Popper and
problems with using risky prediction as the basis of the
difference between science and pseudoscience (from the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/
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Langmuir, I., & Hall, R.
N. (1989). Pathological Science. Physics Today, 42, 36-48. doi:10.1063/1.881205
(I'll email it)
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Park, R. L. (2003). The seven
warning signs of bogus science. The Chronicle of Higher
Education, 49, B20. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/The-Seven-Warning-Signs-of/13674 |
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Research goal: Project design
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2/10
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Methodological concerns
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Why double blind? Rosenthal, R., Kohn, P.,
Greenfield, P. M., & Carota, N. (1966). Data
desirability, experimenter expectancy, and the results of
psychological research. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 3, 20-27.
doi:10.1037/h0022604
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Demand characteristics: Orne,
M. T. (1962). On the social psychology of the psychological
experiment: With particular reference to demand
characteristics and their implications. American Psychologist, 17,
776-783. doi:10.1037/h0043424
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955).
Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological
Bulletin, 52, 281-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0040957
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Meehl, P. E. (1956). Wanted--A good cookbook.
American Psychologist, 11, 263-272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0044164
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Presentation: Present project design to
class, 2/14
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2/17
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Methodological concerns in action
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King, R. N., & Koehler, D. J. (2000).
Illusory correlations in graphological inference. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Applied, 6, 336-348. doi:10.1037/1076-898X.6.4.336
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Rozin, P., Millman, L., &
Nemeroff, C. (1986). Operation of the laws of sympathetic
magic in disgust and other domains. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 50, 703-712. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.50.4.703
(Get it from PsycInfo)
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Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011).
False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data
collection and analysis allows presenting anything as
significant. Psychological Science, 22, 1359-1366. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611417632 |
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Simons, D. J., Boot, W. R., Charness, N., Gathercole, S. E.,
Chabris, C. F., Hambrick, D. Z., & Stine-Morrow, E. A.
L. (2016). Do "brain-training" programs work? Psychological
Science in the Public Interest, 17, 103-191. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1529100616661983
(Our interest is the section labeled "Recommendations"
starting on p. 161 and especially the checklist on p. 171.)
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Research goal: IRB draft
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2/24
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Catch up time/Ethics |
Terms and design discussion
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Beecher, H. K. (1966). Ethics and clinical
research. The New England Journal of Medicine, 274,
1354-1360. (You can get it from PsycInfo by adding the
MEDLINE with full text database)
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Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral study of
obedience. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,
67, 371-378. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0040525
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Baumrind, D. (1964). Some thoughts on ethics
of research: After reading Milgram's "Behavioral study of
obedience." American Psychologist, 19, 421-423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0040128
(Get it from PsycInfo)
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West, S. G., Gunn, S. P., & Chernicky, P.
(1975). Ubiquitous Watergate: An attributional analysis. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 32, 55-65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0076858
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Cook, S. W. (1975). A comment on the ethical
issues involved in West, Gunn, and Chernicky's "Ubiquitous
Watergate: An attributional analysis." Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0076848
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Middlemist, R. D., Knowles, E. S., &
Matter, C. F. (1976). Personal space invasions in the
lavatory: Suggestive evidence for arousal. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 33, 541-546. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.33.5.541
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Koocher, G. P. (1977). Bathroom behavior and
human dignity. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 35, 120-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.35.2.120
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
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Middlemist, R. D., Knowles, E. S., &
Matter, C. F. (1977). What to do and what to report: A reply
to Koocher. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 35, 122-124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.35.2.122
(Get it from PsycInfo) |
3/2
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Catch up time
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Presentation: Literature review/project
foundation, 3/6
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Research
goal: Submit IRB |
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3/9
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S P R I N G B R E A K |
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3/16
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S P R I N G B R E A K |
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3/23
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Putting cause in a box |
Campbell, D. T., & Stanley, J. C. (1963).
Experimental and
quasi-experimental designs for research. Chicago:
Rand McNally and Company. (I'll email the relevant parts;
get the whole thing here https://www.jameslindlibrary.org/campbell-dt-stanley-jc-1963/.)
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Haydon, T., Mancil, G. R.,
& Van Loan, C. (2009). Using opportunities to respond in
a general education classroom: A case study. Education and Treatment of
Children, 32, 267-278. doi: 10.1353/etc.0.0052
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Research goal: Begin
data collection (if approved)
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3/30
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Kinds of design
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Coover, J. E. (1913). “The feeling of being
stared at”: Experimental. The American Journal of
Psychology, 24, 570-575. doi: 10.2307/1413454 |
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Bressan, P. (2002). The connection between
random sequences, everyday coincidences, and belief in the
paranormal. Applied
Cognitive Psychology, 16, 17-34. doi: 10.1002/acp.754 |
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Markovsky, B., & Thye, S. R. (2001).
Social influence on paranormal beliefs. Sociological
Perspectives, 44, 21-44. doi: 10.1525/sop.2001.44.1.21
(Get it from PsycInfo.) |
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Foertsch, J., &
Gernsbacher, M. A. (1997). In search of gender neutrality:
Is singular they a cognitively efficient substitute for
generic he? Psychological
Science, 8, 106-111. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00691.x
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Research goal: Continue data collection
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| 4/6 |
More complicated issues |
Platt, J. R. (1964). Strong Inference. Science,
146, 347-353. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.146.3642.347
(Get it from http://vision.ucsf.edu/dunnlab/Platt1964.pdf)
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Crafts, L. W., Schneirla, T. C., Robinson,
E. E., & Gilbert, R. W. (1950). The perception of
obstacles by the blind in Recent
Experiments in Psychology, pp.137-169. The book is
online, you will need to go to Chapter IX, starting on p.
155 of the pdf. http://www.archive.org/details/recentexperiment031290mbp
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Karpicke, J. D., &
Roediger, H. L., III. (2008). The critical importance of
retrieval for learning. Science,
319, 966-968. doi:10.1126/science.1152408
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Coren, S. (1986). An efferent
component in the visual perception of direction and extent.
Psychological Review, 93,
391-410. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.93.4.391
(Get it from PsycInfo.)
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Research goal: Data analysis
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4/13
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Individual meetings--email
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Research goal: Finalize data analysis, draft
of presentation
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4/20
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Presentations/critiques
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MTPA, Saturday, April 25,
8:30 AM--VIRTUAL
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4/27
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MTPA debrief
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Catch up time
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Final thoughts on science and method
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