TY - BOOK AU - Schneider, Sandra L., AU - Department of Epidemiology/ Life Science/ Psychology TI - Experimental Design in the Behavioral and Social Sciences SN - 9780857028273 U1 - 300.72 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London : PB - SAGE, KW - Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology. KW - Psychology -- Research -- Methodology. KW - Experimental design N1 - HB; Volume :1 The Experimental approach to behavioral and social sciences research; 1. Historical perspectives on experiments in the behavioral and social sciences; 2. 2. The nomothetic-idiographic debate on the nature of behavioral and social sciences; 3. Bringing the laboratory to natural settings in the behavioral and social sciences; 4. Constraints on experimental design in the behavioral and social sciences; Volume : 2 Hypothesis testing and inference in the behavioral and social sciences; 1. On the history of hypothesis testing in the behavioral and social sciences; 2. Reasoning processes in behavioral and social sciences hypothesis testing; 3. Null hypothesis significance testing in behavioral and social sciences research; 4. Power and effect size in behavioral and social sciences hypothesis testing; Volume : 3 Controls and confounds in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 1. Sample selection and assignment in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 2. The control group in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 3. Generalizability and representative design in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 4. Expectancy effects in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 5. Context and causality in behavioral and social sciences experiments; Volume : 4 Design choices and future directions in the behavioral and social sciences; 1. Between-subjects versus within-subjects designs in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 2. Multivariate designs in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 3. Modeling and summarizing experimental data in the behavioral and social sciences; 4. Ethical considerations in behavioral and social sciences experiments; 5. Progress and future directions in behavioral and social sciences experiments N2 - This comprehensive and illustrative collection brings together literature to inform researchers about the many issues that have influenced and continue to refine the use of experimental designs in the behavioral and social sciences ER -