Ralph L. Rosnow
Methodological, statistical, conceptual, and related issues in the practice and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative research with human participants are longtime interests. Within (and beyond) this frame, my students and I have explored social phenomena from a number of perspectives in a number of contexts. We have studied and written about attitude formation and experiments in persuasion, interpersonal acumen, characteristics of rumor and gossip, and explored other reified constructs.
For over 50 years, beginning in the early 1960s, when Bob Rosenthal and I began our Boston careers, he and I collaborated in studies, books, and articles focused on aspects of research. Openly accessible here for viewing and/or downloading are scanned copies of two of our books: (1) the third edition of our 842-page Essentials of Behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis and (2) People Studying People: Artifacts and Ethics in Behavioral Research. Click the File tab (above) and select which book you want to view and/or download (free). Both books also are available at Harvard DASH; click the Publications tab (above) and follow the instructions.
Titles of three additional books also appeared when you clicked the Image tab. They are (3) Writing Papers in Psychology (ninth edition), coauthored with Mimi Rosnow; (4) Paradigms in Transition: The Methodology of Social Inquiry; and (5) Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay, coauthored with Gary Alan Fine. These books are not on Harvard DASH, and all are pretty old. But who knows! You may find something of interest in one or more of them. To view and/or download a book, just select it.
Cheers.
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
