| Psy 401 - Advanced Research
Methods in Psychology [Personality] |
Dr. John A. Johnson |
| Instructions for Lab 1 |
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Your Name: ____________________________________________
CLASSIFYING PERSONALITY RESEARCH
Objectives
- To become aware of recently published personality research through
reading abstracts and skimming articles.
- To understand the different expectations for personality research across
editors and journals.
- To develop an appreciation for the usefulness of numbers and statistics
in research.
- To recognize the value of computer-assisted library searches
Procedure
Read abstracts, and, if necessary to complete the tasks in this lab,
skim through articles from the following journals:
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes
and Individual Differences
- Journal of Personality
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Journal of Personality Assessment
- European Journal of Personality
- Personality and Individual Differences
This can be done either through computer access to a library or reading
the actual journals in a library. Your task is to locate two articles that
represent each of the three major categories of articles: Conceptual, Methodological,
and Empirical. One article is to come from an American Journal (JPSP,
JP, JRP, PSPB, JPA) and one article from a
European journal (EJP, PID). Make six copies of the Journal
Article Assessment Form and complete them for the articles you located.
Please answer the following two questions and attach your answers to
the six completed Journal Article Assessment Forms when you hand them in.
- Did one kind of article (conceptual, methodological, empirical) seem
to predominate in each of the journals? Explain.
- Do the American and European personality journals differ in orientation?
Explain.