1: Person-ality in the Matrix: Getting used to the tools

January 21: Course overview: Gathering data on youth in cyberspace

• Funder's Intro
• Devereux: From Anxiety to Method
• Meehl's preface
• The Gather Server: Collecting Data on the Web
• The Pew Internet and American Life Project: Parents, kids, and students online
• Nick Yee's MMORPG studies
• AOL/IM
• Moroccan cyber-survey 1: AUI (Al Akhawayn website), RAS (Rabat American School website), cybercafes
• 1/21/03 lecture

 January 28:  From Web page survey to SPSS data.

• The practice cyber-survey
• The practice Big Five form

February 4: The Psych 214 survey and data

• Revelle, William. (1995). Personality Processes.
• A Gather-Excel-SPSS slide show

February 11: From survey to statistics to web presentation.

• A model: Keith's "From Web Research to Web Publishing"
• Creating and Publishing Student Web Pages Haverford Academic Computing

February 18: Haverford, Ifrane, Rabat: data analysis, web summary

• Data files: p214_03_1, AUI_02_1, RAS_02_1
• What are the most striking features of each sample?
• In what ways do the samples differ most?
• What addtional data would be most helpful in explaining these findings? What revisions/addtions should we make to the surveys?

February 25: The revised computer use survey, the P214 Story Project.

• a TAT card-set (after Schafer)
• TAT stories
  • Michigan, '69
  • Morocco, '75
  • Haverford, '94 (computer stimulus)
  • Haverford, '95 (3 standard cards)

March 4: The IM and HP surveys

• URL for IM upload to Excel
• URL for HP upload to Excel

March 18: "Cheating": Recovering the person in personality data; MA1 survey and data, MA2 survey and data

• Doug's "New Directions" proposal
• Alan C. Elms. Rae Carlson: An Exemplary Life.
• Personology. Psychobiography.com

   

Resources

Baron, J., & Siepmann, M. (1999): Techniques for creating and using web questionnaires in research and teaching University of Pennsylvania.

Carlson, R. (1971). Where is the person in personality research? Psychological Bulletin, 75, 203-219.

In her analysis of empirical research published in several journals devoted to personality, Carlson underscores significant methodological limitations (e.g., use of college student volunteers, gender imbalance, single instance data collection, deception, etc.) and the lack of substantial progress in understanding the actual functioning of persons.

Davis, D.A. (1994-5). "Erotic Computing." Webster's Weekly.

Davis, D.A. (1976). On being detectably sane in insane places: Base rates and psychodiagnosis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85, 416-422.

Davis, D. A. (1979). What's in a name: A Bayesian rethinking of attributional biases in clinical judgment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 1109-1114.

Devereux, George. (1967). From anxiety to method in the behavioral sciences. The Hague: Mouton & Co. excerpt.

Langer, E.J., & Abelson, R.P. (1974). A patient by any other name...: Clinician group differences in labeling bias. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 4-9.

Langer, E.J., & Abelson, R.P. (1981). Reply to Douglas Davis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 49,132-133.

Murray, H.A. (1940). What should psychologists do about psychoanalysis? Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

Meehl, P. E. (1956). Wanted: A good cookbook. American Psychologist, 11, 263-272.

Meehl, P.E. (1967). Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox. Philosophy of Science, 34, 103-115.

Meehl, P.E. (1973). Why I do not attend case conferences. In P.E. Meehl, Psychodiagnosis: Collected papers. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press. notes

Meehl, P. E. (1978). Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46,806-814.

National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education. Arab Culture and Civilization Project (Al Musharaka: blog)

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Internet and American Life Project.

Revelle, William. (1995). Personality Processes. Annual Review of Psychology.

Schafer, R. (1958). How was this story told? Journal of Projective techniques, 22, 181-210. (Reprinted in R. Schafer. (1967).Projective techniques and psychoanalysis. New York: International Universities Press, pp. 114-169.) excerpt

• It will be helpful to have the TAT pictures handy when you read this. A fine discussion of one of Schafer's interpretations is linked.

Wolf, J., Munoz, M., Kuperman, C., & Davis, D.A. (1998). Self-presentation in IRC. (internal access only).