When we decided-two decades ago-to write a research methods textbook, we wanted to capture the excitement of psychological inquiry as well as the importance of understanding the methods by which research is conducted. Twenty years later, our greatest satisfaction from writing this textbook and teaching research methods is seeing students who enter the course feeling mild trepidations, leave not only feeling competent and confident but also excited about their understanding of the research process.
-from the Preface of Research Methods of Psychology 5/e
This book has helped more psychology students appreciate and understand research methodology than any other text of its kind. The authors' approach has been so successful because they:
- Use a clear, straightforward approach to guide their readers through the process of thinking about and conducting psychological research.
- Introduce research methods in the context in which the research is done by incoporating many examples of "real" research methods and findings.
- Emphasize a multimethods approach to hypothesis testing, which is necessary to meet the goals of scientific psychology.
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