Preface Part I. Conceptual and Ethical Foundations 1. The Spirit of Behavioral Research 2. Contexts of Discovery and Justification 3. Ethical Considerations, Dilemmas, and Guidelines Part II. Operationalization and Measurement of Dependent Variables 4. Reliability and Validity of Measurements 5. Observations, Judgments, and Composite Variables 6. Questionnaires, Interviews, and Diaries Part III. The Logic of Research Designs 7. Randomized Controlled Experiments and Causal Inference 8. Nonrandomized Research and Functional Relationships 9. Randomly and Nonrandomly Selected Sampling Units Part IV. Fundamentals of Data Analysis 10. Describing, Displaying, and Exploring Data 11. Correlation 12. Statistical Power and Effect Size Revisited Part V. One-Way Designs 13. Comparing Means by Standard t Tests 14. Analysis of Variance and the F Test 15. One-Way Contrast Analyses Part VI. Factorial Designs 16. Factorial Analysis of Variance 17. Interaction Effects in Analysis of Variance 18. Repeated Measures in Analysis of Variance Part VII. Additional Topics in Data Analysis 19. Significance Testing and Association in Tables of Counts 20. Multivariate Data Analysis 21. Meta-Analysis: Comparing and Combining Research Results Part VIII. Appendices A: List of Numbered Equations B: Statistical Tables Glossary References Indexes Subject Index Name Index