Ralph L. Rosnow
I have long been interested in how we make sense of an experiential world that is in continual flux. I have had the pleasure of exploring this topic with students and colleagues from perspectives such as attitude and impression formation, the nature of rumor, interpersonal acumen, and epistemology. For over 50 years, I had the good fortune to explore with Bob Rosenthal another side of this topic, namely, how we and scientists in other fields adapt "the scientific method" to investigate questions and justify inferences and generalizations with some degree of precision. A few years before his passing in 2024, Bob and I approached several publishers to see whether we might be given rights to two of many we had coauthored. Our idea was to leave scanned copies freely accessible online for downloading or simply for reading.
Two books are available here and on Harvard DASH. They are (1) ESSENTIALS OF BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH: METHODS AND DATA-ANALYSIS and (2) PEOPLE STUDYING PEOPLE: ARTIFACTS AND ETHICS IN BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH. Simply click on Images & Files tab at the of this page and choose the book you want. For Harvard DASH, click on Publishers tab (top of this page), then on title of either book.
If you click on Images & Files, you will see three additional books for which my coauthors and I have the publishers' rights. These books are (3) WRITING PAPERS IN PSYCHOLOGY (9th edition, coauthored with my wife, Mimi, an English major at Wheaton in Norton, Mass. who edited my books; long before AI, but you may find some tips of interest if you like to write); (4) PARADIGMS IN TRANSITION: THE METHODOLOGY OF SOCIAL INQUIRY (assuming you might be interested in social psychology's crisis in the 1970's and maybe current parallels?); (5) RUMOR AND GOSSIP: THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF HEARSAY (coauthored with Gary Alan Fine; it has the Beatles rumor & others).
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Interpersonal Processes
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
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Books:
- 1975. The volunteer subject (R. Rosenthal & R. L. Rosnow). Wiley-Interscience.
- 1981. Paradigms in transition: The methodology of social inquiry (R. L. Rosnow). Oxford University Press. (Copyright reverted to Rosnow.)
- 1985. Contrast analysis: Focused comparisons in the analysis of variance (R. Rosenthal & R. L. Rosnow). Cambridge University Press.
- 1986. Contextualism and understanding in behavioral science: Implications for research and theory (R. L. Rosnow & M. Georgoudi, Eds.). Praeger. (Contributors included: I. Altman, T. O. Blank, R. A. Dixon, J. S. Efran, M. Georgoudi, G. Gerbner, C. K. Germer, R. E. Lana, J. V. Lerner, R. M. Lerner, M. D. Lukens, W. J. McGuire, G. E. McKechnie, J. Meyowitz, J. G. Morawski, T. R. Sarbin, J. Shotter, and J. Veroff.)
- 1997. People studying people: Artifacts and ethics in behavioral research (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal). W. H. Freeman. (Copyright reverted to Rosnow and Rosenthal.)
- 2000. Contrasts and effect sizes in behavioral research: A correlational approach (R. Rosenthal, R. L. Rosnow, & D. B. Rubin). Cambridge University Press.
- 2008. Essentials of behavioral research: Methods and data analysis, 3rd edition (R. Rosenthal & R. L. Rosnow). McGraw-Hill. (Copyright reverted to Rosenthal and Rosnow.)
- 2009. Artifacts in behavioral research (Re-issue of three books: Artifact in Behavioral Research, Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research, and The Volunteer Subject). (Foreword by A. E. Kazdin). Oxford University Press.
- 2013. Beginning behavioral research: A conceptual primer, 7th edition (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal). Pearson.
Journal Articles:
- 1989. Statistical procedures and the justification of knowledge in psychological science (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal). American Psychologist, 44, 1276-1284.
- 1991. Inside rumor: A personal journey (R. L. Rosnow). American Psychologist, 46, 484-496.
- 1994. Intelligence and the epistemics of interpersonal acumen (conceptual model and data) (R. L. Rosnow, A. A. Skleder, M. E. Jaeger, B. Rind). Intelligence, 19, 93-116.
- 1995. "Some things you learn aren't so": Cohen's paradox, Asch's paradigm, and the interpretation of interaction. Psychological Science (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal), 6, 3-9.
- 1996. Computing contrasts, effect sizes, and counternulls on other people's published data: General procedures for research consumers (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal). Psychological Methods, 1, 331-340.
- 1997. Hedgehogs, foxes, and the evolving social contract in psychological science: Ethical challenges and methodological opportunities (R. L. Rosnow). Psychological Methods, 2, 345--356.
- 2000. Contrasts and correlations in effect-size estimation (R. L. Rosnow, R. Rosenthal, & D. B. Rubin). Psychological Science, 11, 446-453.
- 2003. Effect sizes for experimenting psychologists (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 57, pp. 221-237. Formula noted in Table 1 should read: 1/2*loge[(1+r)/(1-r)].
- 2009. Effect sizes: Why, when, and how to use them (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal). Zeitschrift fur Psychologie/Journal of Psychology, 217(1), 6-14.
Other Publications:
- 2001. Rumor and gossip in interpersonal interaction and beyond: A social exchange perspective (R. L. Rosnow). In R. M. Kolwalski (Ed.), Behaving badly: Aversive behaviors in interpersonal relationships (pp. 203-232). American Psychological Association Press.
- 2013. Ethics and quantitative methods (R. L. Rosnow & R. Rosenthal). In T. D. Little (Ed.), Oxford handbook of quantitative methods (Vol. 1, pp. 31-53). Oxford University Press.
Courses Taught:
- Graduate Course in Data Analysis
- Graduate Course in Research Methods
- Graduate Seminar on Social Psychology
- Undergraduate Course in Research Methods
Ralph L. Rosnow
Pennsylvania
United States of America
