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Article: Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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Edited by Harry T. Reis and Charles M. Judd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 558 pages. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $34.95.
Sexual scientists come from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Not surprisingly, then, they are, collectively, trained in a wide variety of research methods (see Wiederman & Whitley, 2002). However, methodological training in one discipline may omit research tools that are taught in other disciplines. Psychologists, for example, are more likely to be trained in experimental methods than are sociologists and sociologists are more likely to be trained in survey research than are psychologists. Therefore, a work describing the ...