Ralph L. Rosnow
Methodological, statistical, conceptual, ethical, and related qualitative and quantitative topics and issues in research with humans and animals in contexts in continual flux are longtime interests. For over 50 years, I collaborated with my old friend and colleague, Robert Rosenthal, in studies, books, and articles, in which we dipped our toes into areas of research methodology, data analysis, ethics, and related topics and questions. It was great fun, and our friendship grew, as did my drafts of unfinished chapters for books we never got around to completing. Marylu Rosenthal passed, Bob's vision was deteriorating, but certainly not his wisdom or curiosity or optimistic perspective. We made a point of chatting every Saturday, and the heck with surrendering to natural challenges.
Earlier, Bob and I had been successful getting the rights from some publishers to some of our collaborative work, our thought being to make this work into a kind of legacy, freely accessible online. Two of our coauthored books are accessible for viewing or downloading here and on Harvard DASH. They are (1) the 2008 edition of Essentials of Behavioral Research: Methods and Data Analysis and (2) People Studying People: Artifacts and Ethics in Behavioral Research (172 pages). Click on IMAGES tab at the top of this page, then choose the highlighted title of either book, and on View/Download. To use Harvard DASH, click on PUBLICATIONS tab, then click on Essentials of Behavioral Research or on People Studying People, and once directed to the book's site, choose View/Open.
Full-text scanned copies of three additional books (for which my coauthors and I have publisher rights) are openly available here by clicking on FILES tab at the top of this page, then click on highlighted title of interest, and selecting View/Download. The books are (3) Writing Papers in Psychology (9th edition, coauthored with Mimi Rosnow; this is a student manual with tips, guidelines, and illustrative examples of proposals, research papers, literature reviews, poster presentations, and concise handout reports); (4) Paradigms in Transition: The Methodology of Social Inquiry; and (5) Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay (coauthored with Gary Alan Fine; this is an older book, although it may stimulate some enterprising students to want to learn more about current research and insights internationally).
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
