Research Guides: Critical Thinking in Psychology PSY 1004: Experiment and Research Methods

Experiment and Research Design Tools

The Sage Encyclopedia of Research Design
ISBN: 9781071812112
Publication Date: 2022
This set addresses issues of research design within the experimental sciences broadly speaking, particularly the social/behavioral sciences, neurosciences, and biomedical and life sciences.Entries provide summaries of advantages and disadvantages of often-used designs, along with illustrations using real-life examples.

Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
Sage Research Methods Online provides content across the social and behavioral sciences. Covers quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods and includes the entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series.

JoVE Education - Psychology experiment topics
Psychology experiment topic overviews from Journal of Visualized Experiments (not experiments.)

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 4
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides a guide to contemporary testing instruments and contains information for evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. User guides are available on the publisher site.

American Psychological Association Links to Data Sets and Repositories
A wealth of shared data are available for use in psychological science research.

Sage Research Methods Cases This link opens in a new window
Sage Research Methods Cases provides access to a collection of case studies from across the social and behavioral sciences.
ICPSR This link opens in a new window
Note: Patrons can use the 'Access through your institution' option or create an ICPSR account using your Temple email to access this resource from off-campus. Please clear your browser history and cookies if you see an error message.
ICPSR provides access to an international archive of digital datasets in social sciences and related areas. The site also provides information about ICPSR and its services and programs, as well as other related resources and instructional documentation.
Sage Research Methods Datasets This link opens in a new window
Sage Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets that can be used to support the instruction and independent learning of quantitative and qualitative analytical methods used in the social sciences.

Open-Source Psychometrics Project
This website provides a collection of interactive personality tests with detailed results that can be taken for personal entertainment or to learn more about personality assessment. These tests range from very serious and widely used scientific instruments popular psychology to self produced quizzes. A special focus is given to the strengths, weaknesses and validity of the various systems.
Raw data from online personality tests
For general public edification the data collected through the personality tests on the Open-Source Psychometrics Project website is dumped here.

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