Psy 222 Research Methods
Spring 2026
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Exam schedule and due dates (subject to change)
Dr. Thompson's Office Hours (DePaul Hall, room 107)
Course Material
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Congratulations to Sofia, Chris, Desiree, and Addison.
Their research project and poster was voted "Best Poster" by the fall 2025 class.
 How to study: Emphasize spaced retrieval practice. Don't just reread and highlight. Practice what you will have to do on the exam. Rereading and highlighting will not be part of the exam. Also see "Study tips for college students" by Willingham (2016), linked under Course Material.
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General research information
- APS open science badges
- AsPredicted research study preregistration site
- Preregistration is becoming the norm (Nosek & Lindsay, March 2018)
- The Preregistration Challenge
- Information about predatory journals
- Psychotherapy's Image Problem
- Dowsing for bodies (Steven Novella)
- Why debunked pseudoscientific therapies persist (Lilienfeld et al. 2014)
- Psychological treatments that cause harm (Lilienfeld, 2007)
- Whatever happened to actual behavior? (Baumeister et al. 2007)
- Homeopathy: There's nothing in it
- James Randi on dowsing and the ideomotor effect (YouTube)
- Do IRBs actually protect research participants? (Grady, 2010)
- Team research proposal form
- Write results that make sense
- PsycINFO information on the APA web site
- APA style blog
- APA research paper checklist
- Better graphs to show your data (Hehman & Xie, 2022)
- Basics of APA style
- How to avoid term paper procrastination
- Sample APA papers (from the APA style website)
- APA paper templates: Pages Word
- Poster templates (24 x 36 inches): Keynote PowerPoint
- Tips for making posters
- Poster checklist
- What is BF and p-value? PDF graphic for posters
- NU Psychology research guide
JASP and R for data analysis Other information on data analysis
- American Statistical Association statement on p values
- p values are misunderstood (Goodman 2008)
- When Turing met Bayes (Matthews)
- Make use of what you already know (Matthews)
- Bayes Factor calculators (U of Missouri, Perception and Cog. lab)
- Bayesian estimation for two groups (online version by Bååth)
- Activity: Alpha is not the false alarm rate
- Activity: Bayes factors and prior by posterior graphs
- Activity: Graphs for factorial designs
- Visual introduction to probability and statistics (Brown Univ)
- Interactive visualizations of statistical concepts from Magnusson