Judgment Studies Design, Analysis, and Meta-Analysis

Because of the complexity of human behaviour a great many research variables must be constructed from the building blocks of human judgement. A teacher's warmth, a psychotherapist's ability to create rapport, a patient's inner state - these all tend ultimately to be defined by the judgements of others. The purpose of this book is to describe the design, the analysis and the meta-analysis of studies employing judgements in sufficient detail that readers can conduct such studies, and more wisely evaluate them. While the author's examples are drawn primarily from research on non-verbal behaviour, the book is designed for any investigators employing judges, observers, raters, coders, or decoders, whether or not the behaviour being assessed is non-verbal. Judgment Studies: Design, Analysis, and Meta-Analysis constitutes a unique resource for advanced students and researchers in the behavioural and social sciences. It offers the first integrated summary of methodological issues in judgement studies, and the first guide to their planning and analysis.

Preface; Part I. The Design of Judgement Studies: 1. The nature of judgement studies; 2. Sampling judges and encoders; 3. Stimulus selection and presentation; 4. Judges' responses; Part II. The Analysis of Judgement Studies: 5. Forming composites and other re-descriptions of variables; 6. Significance testing and effect size estimation; 7. The interpretation of interaction effects; 8. Contrasts: focused comparisons in the analysis of data; 9. Contrasts in repeated-measures designs; Part III. The Meta-Analysis of Judegment Studies: 10. Comparing and combining judgement studies; 11. Combining probabilities; Appendix; References; Name index; Subject index.

Because of the complexity of human behaviour a large number of research variables must be constructed from building blocks of human judgement. This book describes the design, analysis and the meta-analysis of studies employing judgements in sufficient detail to enable readers to conduct such studies, and more wisely evaluate them.