Fully scanned copies of the following books are accessible for free downloading here.
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(1) "Essentials of Behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis" (3rd edition) (Rosenthal & Rosnow, 2008)
(2) "People Studying People: Artifacts and Ethics in Behavioral Research" (Rosnow & Rosenthal, 1997)
(3) "Paradigms in Transition: The Methodology of Social Inquiry" (Rosnow, 1981)
(4) "Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay" (Rosnow & Fine, 1976)
(5) "Writing Papers in Psychology: Proposals, Research Papers, Literature Reviews, Poster Presentations and Concise Reports" (9th edition) (Rosnow & Rosnow, 2012)
If you'd like a paper copy, feel free to print one copy for yourself.

How people make sense of things and justify their conclusions have long been of interest to me. Research methods, analyses of research data, and related issues (e.g., conflicts between moral assumptions and methodological imperatives in research with human participants) all are of interest to me. I am interested in empirical contexts of discovery and justification. Working with colleagues and doctoral students, we conducted research in social psychological contexts, such as persuasion and opinion change, impression formation and stereotyping, rumormongering and gossiping, and interpersonal acumen.

From 1960-62, I was a Ph.D. student in psychology at The American University in Washington, D.C. I had the good fortune to work with Robert E. Lana, then an associate professor of psychology and statistics. For some experimental studies of Lana's at the time, he was using a method of data interpretation in before-after studies described by experimental psychologist Richard Solomon in his exploratory work on pretest sensitization. Lana's application of Solomon's method when the pretest involved opinions or attitudes whetted my interest. Thinking about a topic for a doctoral dissertation study, I recalled an idea of R. L. Thorndike's in the 1930s. Thorndike theorized that the bolstering effects of a reward (or "satisfying state of affairs") could spread forward and backward. For my research, I explored the forward and backward "spread of effect" of experimentally induced affect on opinion change responses to opposing persuasive communications temporally contiguous with the source of affect. Results were consistent with theory, and, with a Ph.D. in hand, I obtained an academic appointment and, more importantly, a fantastic wife.

In 1963, Mimi (Quin Medinger) and I were married. For our honeymoon, we drove to Norwood, Massachusetts, to settle down in a small garden apartment and, the following week, to begin my Boston University teaching career. Mimi had graduated from Wheaton College in Norton with a degree in English. She had been editor of Wheaton College's newspaper, and she was eager to edit my work. A few years later, we would coauthor the first edition of our little book on writing papers in psychology. For me, heading to New England and teaching master's degree students in a new program on communication research was a dream job. Edward J. Robinson, chair of the new program, was enthusiastic and thoughtful. He and I would later collaborate on my first published book, "Experiments in Persuasion."

The early 1960s also was when Bob Rosenthal began his Boston teaching and research career. We met, became friends, and I invited him to join me in some exploratory research on volunteer subject bias. He had written a conceptual paper on volunteer bias, and I had also just completed an empirical study on volunteer bias (inspired by Martin Orne's work on demand characteristics), but I had not yet submitted the results to a journal. It would be our first published work together. For over 50 years, my friendship with Bob and his wife, MaryLu, grew, and he and I collaborated on books, research, papers and invited chapters. The couple times that Bob planned to be on a sabbatical semester leave at Harvard, I was invited to teach his research methods course and an open seminar in social psychology. In 1999, Bob and MaryLu moved from Massachusetts to California, where they had first met. Bob accepted an appointment as Distinguished Professor (and then as University Professor) at University of California, Riverside. Our friendship and collaboration continued.

In 1967, Bob Lana, then at Temple University in Philadelphia (where he would chair the Department of Psychology and become Dean of the Graduate School), invited me to join him in developing a doctoral program in social psychology. Mimi and I liked New England, and we would probably have settled in Boston except for the cold winter weather. Bob Lana and I had become good friends. Temple offered me an enticing appointment as an associate professor, and Mimi and I Bob liked Philly. I accepted the Temple offer, and Mimi and I are still very glad I did. In 1970, I was promoted to professor. In 1982, I was awarded a named chair: Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor of Psychology. Bolton, who was born in 1865, earned his Ph.D. at Clark University, where G. Stanley Hall was president. Hall considered psychology a science on a par with biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. It was Hall's Clark University student, Bolton, who in 1924 started the department of psychology at Temple University.

In 2002, I retired from active teaching at Temple University, was named Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton Professor Emeritus by the president of the University, and I began drafting a third edition of Essentials of Behavioral Research. No more faculty meetings, and ample time for reading, writing, and ruminating. I am grateful to Temple University Library for finding and continuing to send me published papers that I need.

Cheers.