Psychology - Methods
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Beyond the pleistocene: using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating.

30 Aug 2009 Evolutionary psychologists explore the adaptive function of traits and behaviors that characterize modern Homo sapiens. However, evolutionary psychologists have yet to incorporate the phylogenetic relationship between modern Homo sapiens and humans' ... Read more...

Short and long views of integrative data analysis: comments on contributions to the special issue.

30 May 2009 The author comments on the potential of integrative data analysis (IDA) as a new methodological activity and on some of the topics that were discussed in the 5 articles in this special issue. One topic is the extent to which IDA will be used to ... Read more...

The seemingly quixotic pursuit of a cumulative psychological science: introduction to the special issue.

30 May 2009 The goal of any empirical science is to pursue the construction of a cumulative base of knowledge upon which the future of the science may be built. However, there is mixed evidence that the science of psychology can accurately be characterized by ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychology - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Beyond the pleistocene: using phylogeny and constraint to inform the evolutionary psychology of human mating. 30 Aug 2009
• On: Life and death in Freudian metapsychology. 30 Jul 2009
• Short and long views of integrative data analysis: comments on contributions to the special issue. 30 May 2009
• The seemingly quixotic pursuit of a cumulative psychological science: introduction to the special issue. 30 May 2009
• Finding the self in self-transcendent emotions. 3 May 2009
• The space psychological research in the Czech Republic. 29 Apr 2009
• Methodological issues in the validation of implicit measures: comment on De Houwer, Teige-Mocigemba, Spruyt, and Moors (2009). 29 Apr 2009
• Theoretical claims necessitate basic research: reply to Gawronski, Lebel, Peters, and Banse (2009) and Nosek and Greenwald (2009). 29 Apr 2009
• The "fashion-form" of modern society and its relationship to psychology. 29 Apr 2009
• [Is quality of life measurable?] 5 Apr 2009
• Intersectionality and research in psychology. 30 Mar 2009
• Psychology in an age of ecological crisis: from personal angst to collective action. 30 Mar 2009
• Social policies in Uruguay: a view from the political dimension of community psychology. 27 Feb 2009
• Is it necessary to discuss person-oriented research in community psychology? 27 Feb 2009
• The use of the repertory grid technique to examine staff beliefs about clients with dual diagnosis. 27 Feb 2009
• Introduction to permutation and resampling-based hypothesis tests. 27 Feb 2009
• Variables and quantity: what else? 27 Feb 2009
• Detection of interactions between a dichotomous moderator and a continuous predictor in moderated multiple regression with heterogeneous error variance. 30 Jan 2009
• Timing accuracy of Web experiments: a case study using the WebExp software package. 30 Jan 2009
• ChoiceKey: a real-time speech recognition program for psychology experiments with a small response set. 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Psychology'

Definition: The science dealing with the study of mental processes and behavior in man and animals.

Descriptor UI: D011584

Alternative terms: Psychology; Side Effects, Psychological; Psychological Side Effects; Psychological Side Effect; Side Effect, Psychological; Psychosocial Factors; Factor, Psychosocial; Factors, Psychosocial; Psychosocial Factor; Psychological Factors; Factors, Psychological; Factor, Psychological; Psychological Factor; Psychologists; Psychologist;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.628;

Technical Notes: SPEC: IM, SPEC qualif; prefer /psychol: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.59; NIM for "psychological aspects of" terms not in Cat C, E1-6 & F3: no qualif; as NIM: Manual 27.10 DF: PSYCHOL