Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke

Brett W. Pelham and Hart Blanton’s Conducting Research in Psychology: Measuring the Weight of Smoke, Fifth Edition supports practical learning, engaging students in hands-on activities as a means of introducing psychological research. The text employs humor and stories to help students understand and connect with concepts. Through its methodology exercises, learners are encouraged to use their intuition to understand research methods and to apply basic research principles to novel problems. Pelham and Blanton incorporate cutting-edge updates, including implicit biases measurement controversies, on-line data collection, and new tools for determining the replicability of a set of research findings. The new edition broadens its range of included methodologies to offer a wide-ranging landscape across the types of research now conducted by psychologists. Additionally, the fifth edition includes changes to how the book addresses writing about research and a new chapter guiding students through the process of research design strengthen the text’s user-friendly foundations.