Ralph L. Rosnow

Institution Temple University Current Position Emeritus Professor (retired) Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from American University, 1962 Research Interests Ethics/Morality Research Methods/Assessment Courses Taught Advanced Research and Data Analysis Rosnow Online: Beginning Behavioral Research   Ralph L. Rosnow Radnor, Pennsylvania U.S.A. Ralph Rosnow is Thaddeus Bolton Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Temple University where, from 1967-2001, he taught research methods, data analysis, and social psychology and (with Robert Lana) began the Ph.D. program in social psychology (and then social & organizational psychology). He also taught research methods and social psychology as an assistant professor of communication research at Boston University from 1963-1967, and as a visiting professor in the psychology department at Harvard University in 1974 and 1988-1989. He was a visiting professor and occasional lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1973. Retired from Temple University at the end of 2001, he now spends his idle time enjoying the three Rs. In research and theory, he has long been interested in how people make sense of their experiential world, impose meaning on events, and justify inferences and conclusions. He has explored this question from the perspective of the psychology of the experiment, Vico's philosophical writings, modern contextualism, the psychology of rumor and gossip, attitude formation and persuasion, and interpersonal acumen. He is currently interested in focused data analysis (contrasts) and effect size estimation, and also has written about rewards and conflicts when ethical principles intersect with technical demands of quantitative methods. For over 44 years, he has had the great pleasure of collaborating with Robert Rosenthal on books, articles, and chapters on research methods and data analysis. For longer than he is permitted to say, Ralph also has had the great pleasure of collaborating with his wife, Mimi Rosnow, on a popular writing manual for college students, now in its eighth edition. His B.S. degree is from the University of Maryland, College Park (1953-1957); M.A. in psychology from George Washington University (1957-1958); and Ph.D. in psychology from American University in Washington, DC (1960-1962). He has served on editorial boards of journals and encyclopedias, and he and Robert Lana coedited Oxford University Press's Reconstruction of Society Series. Ralph has been a Fellow of AAAS and APA since 1970 and a Charter Fellow of APS since 1988. Books: Artifacts in behavioral research (2009). A three-in-one reissue of Rosenthal & Rosnow's "Artifact in Behavioral Research," Rosenthal's "Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research," and Rosenthal & Rosnow's "The Volunteer Subject"; with a Foreword by Alan E. Kazdin. Oxford U. Press. Rosenthal, R., & Rosnow, R. L. (2008). Essentials of behavioral research: Methods and data analysis (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. Rosenthal, R., & Rosnow, R. L. (1985). Contrast analysis: Focused comparisons in the analysis of variance. Cambridge University Press. (Reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009.) Rosenthal, R., Rosnow, R. L., & Rubin, D. B. (2000). Contrasts and effect sizes in behavioral research: A correlational approach. Cambridge University Press. (Click Link for sample material.) Rosnow, R. L. (1981). Paradigms in transition: The methodology of social inquiry. Oxford University Press. Rosnow, R. L., & Georgoudi, M. (Eds.). (1986). Contextualism and understanding in behavioral science: Implications for research and theory. Praeger/Greenwood. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (2008). Beginning behavioral research: A conceptual primer (6th ed.). Pearson/Prentice Hall. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (1997). People studying people: Artifacts and ethics in behavioral research. W. H. Freeman. (Paperback copies available from Palgrave, UK.) Rosnow, R. L., & Rosnow, M. (2009). Writing papers in psychology (8th ed.) Wadsworth/Cengage. Japanese edition (ISBN9784788511026) available at Kinokuniya BookWeb. Journal Articles: Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (2009). Effect sizes: Why, when, and how to use them. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie/Journal of Psychology, 217(1), 6-14. (Full-text pdf available by email request or by going to PsycARTICLES.) Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (2003). Effect sizes for experimenting psychologists. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57(3), 221-237. Correction for Note in TABLE 1: formula should read 1/2*loge[(1+r)/(1-r)]. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (2002). Contrasts and correlations in theory assessment. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 27(1), 59-66. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (1996). Computing contrasts, effect sizes, and counternulls on other people's published data: General procedures for research consumers. Psychological Methods, 1, 331-340. Rosnow, R. L., & Rosenthal, R. (1989). Statistical procedures and the justification of knowledge in psychological science. American Psychologist, 44, 1276-1284. Other Publications: Rosnow, R. L., & Foster, E. K. (2005). Rumor and gossip research. Psychological Agenda, 19(4).

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