Judgment Studies: Design, Analysis, and Meta-Analysis / Edition 1

by Robert Rosenthal

Overview

Because of the complexity of human behaviour a great many research variables must be constructed from the building blocks of human judgement. A teacher's warmth, a psychotherapist's ability to create rapport, a patient's inner state - these all tend ultimately to be defined by the judgements of others. The purpose of this book is to describe the design, the analysis and the meta-analysis of studies employing judgements in sufficient detail that readers can conduct such studies, and more wisely evaluate them. While the author's examples are drawn primarily from research on non-verbal behaviour, the book is designed for any investigators employing judges, observers, raters, coders, or decoders, whether or not the behaviour being assessed is non-verbal. Judgment Studies: Design, Analysis, and Meta-Analysis constitutes a unique resource for advanced students and researchers in the behavioural and social sciences. It offers the first integrated summary of methodological issues in judgement studies, and the first guide to their planning and analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521331913
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/29/1987
Series:	Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Part I. The Design of Judgement Studies: 1. The nature of judgement studies; 2. Sampling judges and encoders; 3. Stimulus selection and presentation; 4. Judges' responses; Part II. The Analysis of Judgement Studies: 5. Forming composites and other re-descriptions of variables; 6. Significance testing and effect size estimation; 7. The interpretation of interaction effects; 8. Contrasts: focused comparisons in the analysis of data; 9. Contrasts in repeated-measures designs; Part III. The Meta-Analysis of Judegment Studies: 10. Comparing and combining judgement studies; 11. Combining probabilities; Appendix; References; Name index; Subject index.

Editorial Reviews

"...invites the interest of any who would evaluate judgment studies or learn to conduct them...a valuable source of guidance..." Contemporary Psychology

"...consistently clear and characterized by admirable good sense." Contemporary Sociology

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