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| Preface | |
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| Developing Your Research Idea | |
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| Developing Your Ideas | |
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| Refining Your Research Question | |
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| Generating Your Hypothesis | |
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| Figuring Out What Support for Your Hypothesis Would Look Like | |
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| Preparing for Your Written Paper | |
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| Expanding Your Knowledge | |
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| Sources of Ideas | |
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| Everyday Behaviors and Occurrences | |
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| Previous Research | |
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| Finding Sources That Present Possible Research Ideas | |
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| PsycINFO-Finding Research That Psychologists Have Already Carried Out | |
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| Acting Ethically in Your Research | |
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| Ethical Principles and Standards of the American Psychological Association | |
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| General Principles | |
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| Ethical Standards | |
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| Federal Regulations in the United States | |
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| What Constitutes Research? | |
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| Understanding the Concept of Risk in Research | |
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| What Research Requires Prior Approval? | |
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| Important Ethical Issues in Psychological Research | |
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| Informed Consent | |
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| Deception | |
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| Debriefing | |
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| Preparing for Evaluation by Your Institutional Review Board | |
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| Commonly Requested Information for IRB Proposals | |
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| Description of the Project | |
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| Participants | |
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| Risks and Benefits of Participation | |
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| Anonymity and Confidentiality of Participation | |
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| Adapting and Developing Your Methodology | |
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| Making Use of Previous Research | |
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| Borrowing From Previous Research | |
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| Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale | |
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| Ambivalent Sexism Inventory and Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory | |
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| Measures of Personality and Social Psychology | |
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| Various Personality Characteristics | |
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| Defining and Measuring Your Concepts and Constructs | |
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| Identifying Your Research Participants | |
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| How Many Participants Do You Need? | |
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| Do the Data Support Your Hypotheses? Planning for Your Data Analysis | |
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| Comparing Means | |
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| Establishing Relations Between Variables | |
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| Your Results | |
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| Why Do We Use Statistics? | |
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| What Is Your Message? | |
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| Statistical Significance | |
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| Deciding Whether the Results Supported Your Hypothesis | |
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| Results Versus Interpretations | |
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| Drawing Conclusions | |
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| Generating an Overall Statement About Support for Your Hypotheses | |
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| Showing How Your Results Relate to Previous Research | |
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| Conclusions and Speculation | |
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| Using Results to Plan Future Research | |
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| Using the Limitations in Previous Research to Move Ahead | |
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| Writing a Research Report in APA Style | |
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| Introduction Section | |
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| Establishing the Context of Your Study | |
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| Where Did the Ideas Come From? | |
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| Establishing Your Research Questions and Expectations | |
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| Method Section | |
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| Participants | |
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| Apparatus and Materials | |
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| Procedure | |
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| Design | |
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| Results | |
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| Discussion | |
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| References | |
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| Creating a Poster Presentation | |
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| Setting Up the PowerPoint File | |
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| Suggestions for Poster Content | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Method | |
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| Results | |
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| Discussion | |
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| References | |
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| Using SPSS for Data Analysis | |
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| Steps in Conducing Data Analysis in SPSS | |
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| Independent-Groups T Test | |
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| Dependent-Groups T Test | |
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| One-Way ANOVA | |
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| One-Way ANOVA With Repeated Measures | |
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| One-Way ANOVA With Repeated Measures With an Additional, Non-repeated Measures Variable | |
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| Pearson Product-Moment Correlation | |
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| Linear Regression | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |