{"title":"That's Sick! Introducing an Immunology Exercise to a Health Psychology Class1","authors":"K. Sexton-Radek, T. L. Marsh","doi":"10.2466/04.03.IT.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/04.03.IT.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A laboratory investigating and monitoring the effect of exposing a microbe to a virus was added to a Health Psychology class. Students in the Health Psychology class received a class lectures on “Microbiology Laboratory Techniques” and “Concepts in Immunology.” Students then participated in a two-class meeting laboratory procedure to track changes in a microbe exposed to a virus. Student perceptions of their learning satisfaction were increased from pre to post laboratory measures. Learning lessons from the teaching method are presented.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79859351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Simple Difference Formula: An Approach to Teaching Nonparametric Correlation1:","authors":"D. Kerby","doi":"10.2466/11.IT.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/11.IT.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"Although teaching effect sizes is important, many statistics texts omit the topic for the Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. To address this omission, this paper introduces the ...","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74477430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A failed demonstration of sun sign astrology1","authors":"Jeremy E. C. Genovese","doi":"10.2466/03.17.CP.3.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/03.17.CP.3.16","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A 2013 paper by Adel, Hossain, and Johnson presented findings that seem to support a tenet of astrology: the relationship between birth sign and celebrity. However, their finding was simply an artifact of assigning an arbitrary starting point to the zodiac signs and, consequently, the data do not support the validity of astrology.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74537456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jewish Population Percentage in the U.S. States: An Index of Opportunity1:","authors":"D. Templer, K. Tangen","doi":"10.2466/17.49.CP.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/17.49.CP.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the present study was to characterize the relationship between quality of life and the percentage of Jewish persons in the states of the United States. The percentage of Jewish persons in the United States was positively correlated with number of prestigious universities, number of prestigious law schools, number of prestigious business schools, per capita income, number of physicians, number of top-rated newspapers, and number of orchestras. It was suggested that percentage of Jews is an Index of Opportunity, an index that has not been previously reported in the psychology or economics literature. Discrimination against Jews may be based on jealousy of their intelligence and success.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76778521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observation Oriented Modeling: Preparing Students for Research in the 21st century1:","authors":"J. Grice","doi":"10.2466/05.08.IT.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/05.08.IT.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Observation Oriented Modeling is an alternative to traditional methods of data conceptualization and analysis that challenges researchers to develop integrated, explanatory models of patterns of observations. The focus of research is thus shifted away from aggregate statistics, such as means, variances, and correlations, and is instead directed toward assessing the accuracy of judgments based on the observations in hand. In this paper a number of example data sets will be used to demonstrate how Observation Oriented Modeling can be taught to undergraduate and graduate students. While the examples are drawn from psychology, the method of contrasting Observation Oriented Modeling with traditional methods of research design and statistical analysis can easily be adapted to examples from other sciences.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89225507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using the philosophy of science to better understand research methods1","authors":"B. Haig","doi":"10.2466/11.05.IT.3.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/11.05.IT.3.9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article suggests that contemporary philosophy of science can significantly increase our understanding of behavioral research methods. In particular, it illustrates this contention by showing how selected methodological ideas in the philosophy of science can deepen our understanding of the widely used method of exploratory factor analysis.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81846233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributions to Sport Psychology: Walter R. Miles and the Early Studies on the Motor Skills of Athletes1:","authors":"Alan S. Kornspan","doi":"10.2466/32.CP.3.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/32.CP.3.17","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the late 1890s and early 1900s, psychologists began to study the motor skills of athletes. One individual who gained attention for his work related to investigating the motor skills of athletes was Walter R. Miles. In particular, his research related to the reaction time of football players at Stanford University gained notoriety. Although these studies have been overviewed, discussion of Miles's additional work and influence related the study of athletes has received virtually no attention. This paper examines the various contributions of Miles and his colleagues to the study of the perceptual and motor skills of athletes.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79818429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David G. Thomas, C. T. Copeland, D. Hershey, C. Abramson
{"title":"Cemetery Demography as a Tool for Teaching Psychological Research Methods to Undergraduate Students","authors":"David G. Thomas, C. T. Copeland, D. Hershey, C. Abramson","doi":"10.2466/03.09.IT.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/03.09.IT.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Students enrolled in an honors introductory psychology course completed a cemetery demography project intended to stimulate student interest and appreciation for psychological research. They generated hypotheses about human population characteristics, collected cemetery data, tested their hypotheses with means comparisons, and wrote about their study in APA format. Responses on a satisfaction survey completed by students at the end of the semester support the conclusion that the cemetery demography class research project facilitated students' interest and appreciation for psychological research.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81688442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perception of humorists: a cross-cultural study of undergraduates in hong kong, hangzhou, and vancouver1","authors":"Xiao-dong Yue, N. Hiranandani","doi":"10.2466/07.17.CP.3.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/07.17.CP.3.19","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Humor perception differs across cultures, and this paper examined the cultural differences of humor perception and nomination of humorists in 457 university students from Hong Kong, Hangzhou, and Vancouver. The “big humor/little humor” phenomenon explicates cross-cultural meanings and implications of humor expressions and functions. “Big humor” is a conception that humor is created by professionals, whereas the “little humor” view is that people possess humor as a personality trait. Participants were asked to nominate up to three humorists they know and to specify their reasons for nomination. They also self-evaluated on a scale of 1 to 10, the importance of humor and their own humor. Results showed that students from Vancouver nominated ordinary people more, valued humor more, and considered themselves more humorous than students in Hong Kong and Hangzhou.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76109866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Opinions of Suicide Bombers' Mental Health1,2:","authors":"Adam Lankford","doi":"10.2466/07.CP.3.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2466/07.CP.3.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study was designed to explore public opinions of suicide bombers' mental health, which is a subject of great popular and scholarly debate. In a random sample of 391 adult residents surveyed by telephone, there did not appear to be significant differences in answers based on respondents' age, sex, or race. However, belief that suicide bombers are mentally ill was inversely related to respondents' level of education. That respondents with less education would be more apt to believe that suicide bombers are mentally ill can be understood through prior research on the fundamental attribution error. In this particular case, however, the least educated respondents' opinions may actually reflect the latest scientific findings on the subject.","PeriodicalId":37202,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology","volume":"313 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77399637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}