Social Psychology of Research

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Social Psychologyof Research
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Sources of Error in Human Research

• Experimenter Factors
• Subject Factors
• Cultural Factors

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Experimenter Factors

• The Personal Equation
• Maskelyne
• Inter-rater reliability
• Correlations between raters
• Mortons unconscious bias
• Burts unconscious bias?
• Facilitated communication
• Double blind controls

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Subject Factors

• Hawthorne Effect
• Westinghouse plant
• Placebo Effects
• Heart surgery
• MCS
• Demand Characteristics
• Ornes demonstration

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Cultural Factors

• Interviewer as icon
• Napoleon Chagnon
• Assumptions of an Interview
• Studies of logic