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The book that established itself as a standard text and reference work for students seeking to master research methods and procedures in psychology has been updated and revised in this new edition! The Second Edition of The Psychology Research Handbook: A Guide for Graduate Students and Research Assistants once again offers a comprehensive guide for understanding and conquering the entire research process. Editors Frederick T. L. Leong and James T. Austin have assembled a distinguished group of expert researchers who share skill sets accumulated as a result of years of practical exposure to the design, development, implementation, and documentation of research in psychology.
Conducting a Meta-Analysis
Conducting a Meta-Analysis
Literature reviews typically serve to summarize results of past studies, suggest potential reasons for inconsistencies in past research findings, and direct future investigations. There are two ways a review of a literature can be conducted: in the traditional narrative manner or by meta-analysis. The traditional narrative reviewer identifies articles relevant to the topic of interest, examines the results of each article to see whether the hypothesis was supported, and provides overall conclusions. Conclusions are typically left up to the individual reviewer. Traditional narrative reviews have been criticized because they easily allow the reviewer's biases to enter into the conclusions and because information in the original studies can be discarded unconsciously or inconsistently.
A meta-analysis has the same goals as ...
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