From within psychology, several sources encourage the perception (particularly to a novice) that a typical study in psychology is an experiment on college students or rodents using self-report questionnaires (i.e., for human samples). Research methods textbooks in psychology (e.g., Cozby, 2004; Elmes, Kantowitz, & Roediger, 2003; Gravetter & Forzano, 2003) generally give much more coverage to experimental methods than nonexperimental methods. Furthermore, many critical reviews of psychological scholarship lament the overuse of college students and laboratory rats in artificial environments (e.g., Neisser, 1978; Schultz, 1969; Sears, 1986; Smart, 1966) and self-report questionnaires as the primary bases for knowledge accumulation (e.g., Campbell, 1982). The empirical bases for th...
... personality, and experimental psychology journals. Within social and personality psychology, reports...
Psychologists have long been concerned with individuals' behaviour that contributes to climate change.1 In particular, environmental psychology, a child of 1960s idealism, was conceived to solve environment-related problems through scientific evidencebased research. Research on energy conservation and other environmental problems has been going on for 35 years (e.g., Buckhout, 1972; Pallak & Cummings, 1976; Seligman & Darley, 1977). Derived in part from Kurt Lewin' s mantra that nothing is so practical as a good theory, it has always been an approach that seeks to combine quality research with applications aimed at personal and organisational change. In doing so, it has developed a wide range of theories, models, and principles that can be used to design action research techniqu...
...A stream of special issues in journals on environmental problems has appeared since the 1...
An ethnographic study explored how 41 grade 11 students enrolled in biology, chemistry, physics and psychology classes completed a modified scientific literature review (SLR). Researchers questioned whether the use of primary readings from peer-review science journals promoted increased student learning, the ability to handle scientific information, the stimulation of critical thinking skills, development of a deeper understanding of a scientific topic, and the preparation for collegiate research. Data were collected in four phases: Preliminary interviews; debriefing interviews after completion of the SLRs; content analysis of student work; and face-to-face interviews two years after the SLR unit with self-selected participants from the original sample. Findings indicate that students w...
In Québec, community psychologists have played an important role in the definition and measurement of family violence and conjugal violence, as well as proposing interventions to prevent these problems. Following the lead of [Bouchard] ([Chamberland], Bouchard, & Beaudry, 1986), Québec community psychologists have collaborated with others on large-scale epidemiological investigations on the prevalence of child abuse (Clément & Chamberland, 2007; Clément, Chamberland, & Trocmé, in press), conjugal violence (Lévesque, Clément, & Chamberland, 2007), and the co-occurrence of these two forms of violence (Lévesque et al., 2007). [Lavergne, C, Dufour], Trocmé, and Larrivée (2008) examined the rates of placement of minority and Aboriginal children in the child welfare system, an...
...community psychology journals (American Journal of Community Psychology [AJCP] a...
Christian Vandenberghe is a Full Professor in the Department of Management at HEC Montreal. He completed his PhD in industrial and organizational psychology in 1996 at the Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He was appointed professor of work and organizational psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1997 to 2003 and in 2003 moved to HEC Montreal. Christian Vandenberghe has authored or co-authored more than 65 published journal articles and book chapters in English or French. His research interests include job attitudes, organizational commitment, turnover and performance, well-being in the workplace, and leadership and change processes. John Meyer received his PhD from The University of Western Ontario in 1978. After spending three years at St Thoma...
...His articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of ...
L'étude cherchait à effectuer une évaluation exhaustive des récentes activités de recherche dans tous les départements de psychologie au Canada ayant des programmes d'études supérieures. La quantité et la qualité des activités de recherche de chacun ont été mesurées au moyen du nombre d'articles publiés évalués par des pairs et de l'indexation des mots-clés de citation de ces articles, respectivement. L'indice h de chaque institution a été fourni à titre d'indicateur supplémentaire de ses activités de recherche. La variation de l'indice du changement dans les activités de recherche au fil du temps - la pente - a aussi été établie. On a utilisé les données pour la période 1900-2008 ainsi que pour trois périodes de cinq ans : 1994-1998, 1999-2003 et 2004-2008. Pour l'ensemble des départem...
...The included journals and scope of the categories change over time and, ...
The paper outlines developments in the accounting history literature during the 1990s. The introduction chronicles the immense broadening of publication opportunities in accounting history that characterized the decade. To a certain extent, this enhancement of outlets resulted from a richer dialogue among accounting historians who became increasingly willing to debate paradigmatic and methodological issues. In this context, the paper identifies and discusses traditional and critical forms of accounting history and reviews work within the paradigms of economic-rationalist, Foucauldian, and Marxist/labor-process studies. The major elements of debate between old and new perspectives on accounting history are discussed and linked to later collaborative efforts and refinements in the work of...
... review is the fact that three of the six journals which have taken the lead in publishing accounting... and kindred disciplines (e.g., psychology and sociology) constructed a "governable person" o...
Despite this complaint, one of the strengths of the book is that [John C. Malone, PhD] makes a serious effort to dispel misconceptions about founding figures in psychology, such as Wundt, by detailing the sort of empirical work that made his psychology laboratories world-famous and by distinguishing him from earlier introspectionist psychologists who Wundt so seriously criticised. The author sets other founding figures, such as Freud, in the context in which they evolved their ideas, for example, documenting Freud's intellectual development from neurology through hypnosis (influenced by the work of Charcot) to his own ideas about psychoanalysis as an effective way to treat clinical cases of hysteria. Other well-known names, such as William James, are not so lucky, when aspects of their ...
...His work has been published in journals such as the European Journal of Behaviour Analysis...
Following this introduction, the author develops a theoretical framework for understanding brain systems that would produce mental representations with the properties just described. For this purpose, he introduces the principle of learning by prediction and links it to Bayesian decision theory. He argues that many of the cognitive phenomena considered can be explained if it is assumed that the brain operates as an ideal Bayesian observer. This conceptualization directly builds on the notion that perception and action are proactive processes and involve the generation of mental models. The models generated by the brain are continuously tested against reality and adapted using sensory signals and prediction errors, which are computed based on probabilistic knowledge derived from past exp...
...Several recent reviews in journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences and Annual Re...
There are eight chapters in the book, organised in four sections. Chapter 1 "Creators of Culture" provides an overview of the basic tenet of the book - that climate demands and monetary resources influence each other's impact on culture. Dr. Van de Vliert further asserts that "climate and cash" interact to form integrated climatoeconomic niches. Chapter 2 "Climate Colors Life Satisfaction" summarises empirical support for the contention that a more demanding climate, leading to fewer resources, decreases culturally embedded satisfaction. The author illustrates that problems of unhappiness and suicide exist in regions with extremely cold winters, extremely hot summers, or both. In Chapter 3 "Cash Compensates for Climate," he explains how money resources make the difference between climat...
... has published widely in international journals. Across the globe, academics agree that we create ...
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