BGSP Research Resources
BGSP Research Resources
Compiled by Stephen Soldz
for the Center for Research, Evaluation, and Program Development
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
A collection of resources to aid research in psychoanalysis and allied disciplines.
CONTENTS
Psychoanalytic Research
Psychotherapy Research
Dreams & Fantasy
Emotions
Personality
Psychology — Other Branches
Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Substance Abuse
Violence
Longitudinal
Social Science
Medicine
Evaluation
General Research Resources
Research Methodology
Qualitative Research
Research Software
Public Data Sets
Administer Surveys
Writing Research Papers
Research Funding
Political/Social Context
Contact Us
Psychoanalytic Research
The
Psychoanalytic Research Consortium. (POSTED: May 9, 2003) has extensive psychoanalytic material available
for use by reserchers and educators. They have approximately 18,000 tape-recorded
psychoanalytic hours available for study. Transcripts or tapes can be obtained by
researchers for a modest fee.
They describe themselves as follows:
The Psychoanalytic Research Consortium (PRC) is a not-for-profit organization
of researchers promoting basic psychoanalytic research, primarily through the use of our
library of audiotape recorded sessions of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic or
psychodynamic therapy. We are primarily interested in exploring the relationships between
the processes of psychoanalytic work and the benefit to the patient, particularly l
ong-term benefit. We support a group of research-minded psychoanalysts who have developed
ANALYTIC PROCESS SCALES for investigating recorded sessions....
We wish specifically to encourage research endeavors by individual analysts who may not have
an elaborate research design, but simply an interesting idea.
The
Psychoanalytic Research Society is Section VI of the American Psychological
Association's Division of Psychoanalysis (Division 39). At this point, their web
site is fairly sparse.
(POSTED: May 9, 2003)
Robert S. Wallerstein has written an overview of
Psychoanalytic Therapy Research: An Overview. (Don't worry. Only the
Abstract is in Italian.)"
(POSTED: June 9, 2003)
Peter Fonagy has edited (with John Clarkin, Andrew Gerber, Horst Kächele,
Rainer Krause, Enrico E. Jones, Roger Perron, and Elizabeth Allison)
An Open Door Review of Outcome Studies in Psychoanalysis.
(POSTED: June 17, 2003)
t covers many of the studies of the outcome of psychoanalytic treatment
carried out in Europe and North America over the past decades. It is intended as a
resource to those who wish to further their knowledge of the effects of intensive
psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research,
with support form the Glass Foundation has available the
Columbia Glass Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Research (POSTED: May 9, 2003)
The
Fund for Psychoanalytic Research gives grants. Next deadline: Nov. 1, 2003.
Their
Recent Awards page is a nice list of recent work in the field!
(POSTED: May 9, 2003)
The
Research Division of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
has training programs and seminars for research-minded students and colleagues.
(POSTED: May 9, 2003)
Peter Fonagy's paper
Grasping the Nettle: or Why Psychoanalytic Research is such an Irritant,
the Annual Research Lecture of The British Psycho-Analytical Society, 2000.
(POSTED: May 9, 2003)
The
Pacella Parent Child Center has a list of
grants and publications utilizing their data: "intensive one-on-one weekly
observation of the child play and
his or her interaction with mother, staff, and other children as well as an intensive
weekly interview about the child's development with his mother."
(POSTED: May 9, 2003)
Of course, a major trend in psychoanalytic research is Lester Luborsky's
Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT). Here are a few web sources to get one
started:
A Guide to the CCRT's Methods, Discoveries and Future;
The CCRT of Psychotic, Borderline, and Neurotic Personality Organization (pdf) by
Louis Deger, et.al.; &
Study of a Psychoanalytic Process using the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme
(CCRT) Method according to the Ulm Process Model by
Cornelia Albani, Dan Pokorny*, Gerd Blaser, Susanne König, Helmut Thomä, & Horst Kächele.
(POSTED: January 19, 2004)
Here is a little-known (in the US) approach to the collection and analysis
of psychoanalytic materials:
The JAKOB Archive: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research at the University of
Zurich: Presentation of the database and research methods in the field of clinical
narration (pdf).
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Abstract: The Department of Clinical Psychology I represents the psychoanalytically oriented section of
the Institute of Psychology at the University of Zurich. For the past 10 years the department’s research
has placed emphasis on content analytical and qualitative investigations of patient narratives. These
narratives are obtained through the department’s own psychotherapy department practice and examined
using the JAKOB narrative analysis developed specifically for this purpose. For the data collection a high
quality video system is available. All data and research results are systematically administered in the
JAKOB database.
Drew Westen and colleagues are doing a lot of work on psychoanalytic
themes, including studies assessing personality pathology based on psychodynamic
constructs, and work integrating psychoanalysis with social-cognitive theory.
The
Laboratory of Personality and Psychopathology at Emory University has
many
Publications and
Manuals, Measures, and Software, etc., available.
Especially interesting are the SWAP 200 Q-Sort, and
the various measures of Social Cognition and Object Relations
(SCORS).
(POSTED: December 22, 2003)
Psychotherapy Research
The premier organization is the
Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), with its chapter the
North American Society for Psychotherapy Research (NASPR).
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Psychotherapy Research Worldwide is a list of web sites for the
leading psychotherapy researchers, from Norman Abeles to George Woody.
[A number of the links are broken]
(POSTED: October 19, 2003)
The now deceased Journal of Psychotherapy Research and Practice has made its
complete
online archives available for free.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
An Annual Review of Psychology survey of
Individual Psychotherapy Process and Outcome Research: Challenges Leading to
Greater Turmoil or a Positive Transition? by Mark Kopta
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Daniel B. Fishman argues the need for a new paradigm of
psychotherapy research:
Transcending the Efficacy Versus Effectiveness Research Debate: Proposal for a
New, Electronic "Journal of Pragmatic Case Studies", with 3 commentaries,
including Stanley B. Messer's
A Psychodynamic Clinician Responds to Fishman's Case Study Proposal
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Wolfgang Lutz and colleagues provide evidence for a dose-response
relationship in psychotherapy:
Prediction of Dose–Response Relations Based on Patient Characteristics (pdf).
This work has been expanded into an outcomes monitoring system.
Several papers on the logic and functioning of such systems by Lutz are
available here.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Alan Kazdin surveys
The State of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Research.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Klaus G. Deissler & Walter Zitterbarth attempt to transcend
traditional quantitative psychotherapy research in:
Psychotherapy Research as Social Discourse -
Proposal for the Qualitative Research of Therapeutic Collaboration
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
The
Psychotherapy Research Program (PRP) at Massachusetts General Hospital
"was formed to study empirically both the process and outcome of psychotherapy
for a range of psychiatric disorders." Several of their
papers are available online.
(POSTED: October 22, 2003)
Dreams & Fantasy
Of interest is the
Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD), which publishes a popular magazine:
Dream Time. See the
Dream Time Articles Online. ASD also publishes a journal:
Dreaming. See:
Dreaming Journal Articles Online.
(POSTED: June 2, 2004)
Adam Schneider & G. William Domhoff have a site devoted
to:
The Quantitative Study of Dreams. It is based on Domhoff's:
A New Neurocognitive Theory of Dreams.
(POSTED: December 22, 2003)
[D]reaming is best understood as a developmental cognitive
achievement that depends upon the maturation and maintenance of a specific network of
forebrain structures. The output of this neural network for dreaming is guided by a
"continuity principle" linked to current personal concerns on the one hand
and a "repetition principle" rooted in past emotional preoccupations on the
other.
Emotions
The
Emotion Home Page has links to a number of sources on emotions (of course).
(POSTED: May 9, 2003)
The Cognition And Affect Project (POSTED: May 9, 2003)
The main goal of this project is to understand the types of architectures
that are capable of accounting for the whole range of human (and non-human) mental states
and processes, including not only intelligent capabilities, such as the ability to learn
to find your way in an unfamiliar town and the ability to think about infinite sets, but
also moods, emotions, desires, and the like. For instance, we have investigated whether
the ability to have emotional states is an accident of animal evolution or an inevitable
consequence of design requirements and constraints, for instance in resource-limited
intelligent robots.
Personality
William Revelle maintains
The Personality Project--Overview , with links to many personality-theory
resources.(POSTED: Jume 3, 2003)
C. George Boeree has created an e-textbook of
Personality Theories, organized by theoretician. A number of psychoanalysts
are included. (POSTED: Jume 3, 2003)
G. Scott Acton
Great Ideas in Personality site "deals with scientific research programs in
personality psychology. They are offered as candidates for the title "great ideas";
whether they are indeed great remains an open question."
Of special interest is Kristen M. Beystehner's article
Psychoanalysis: Freud's Revolutionary Approach to Human Personality, along
with multiple commentaries.
(POSTED: Jume 3, 2003)
Robert R. Holt has a classic article available:
Individuality and Generalization in the Psychology of Personality:
A Theoretical Rationale for Personality Assessment and Research
which argues against the value of a nomothetic-ideographic split in approaches
to personality
assessment.
(POSTED: June 17, 2003)
The conception of two kinds of disciplines, a nomothetic science to
study general principles and find abstract laws, and an idiographic science to
study individuality, arose as a protest against a narrow conception of science
in the nineteenth century. But the romantic movement of which it was a part started
from fallacious premises, such as the conception that science is defined by its
subject matter rather than its method, and its radical principles were never
actually applied in pure form by any of its adherents. The idiographic point of
view is an artistic one that strives for a nonscientific goal; the nomothetic, a
caricature that bears little resemblance to the best contemporary work in the
"hard" sciences. Since no useful purpose is served by retaining these mischievous
and difficult terms, they had best disappear from our scientific vocabularies.
Psychology — Other Branches
An amazing resource on early psychology:
Classics in the History of Psychology, maintained by Christopher D.
Green of York University.
(POSTED: October 7, 2003)
A source of links for all branches of psychology:
.
PsycHits. It has a page of psychoanalytic links.
[The site seems to be very slow.]
(POSTED: June 17, 2003)
Psych Web is a site containing "lots of psychology-related information for
students and teachers of psychology." Includes many resources on careers in
psychology.
(POSTED: December 29, 2003)
Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology contains lecture notes,
activities, topic resources, etc..
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: January , 2004)
The
American Psychological Association had an online journal,
Prevention & Treatment which "printed" articles with commentaries.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Psycoloquy "is a refereed international, interdisciplinary electronic
journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association." It is
especially strong in cognitive psychology and related areas.
(POSTED: January 5, 2004)
Current Research in Social Psychology (CRISP) "is a peer reviewed, electronic
journal covering all aspects of social psychology."
(POSTED: January 19, 2004)
A good beginning for those interested in
Interpersonal Theory. See also
Interpersonal Theory References &
Interpersonal Complementarity.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Here is a good starting point for resources on
Attachment Theory. Also see the
Attachment Theory and Research Center @ Stonybrook and the
Attachment Research Center.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is a vibrant psychological
tradition, based on the work of George Kelly, which put human subjectivity at
the core of psychological theorizing. PCP has given birth to several
therapeutic and research technologies, including the repertory grid.
A comprehensive resource page is:
Personal Construction Theory & Repertory Grid. Other PCP pages include:
The PCP Info Site and, starting in 2004 the internet journal
Personal Construct Theory & Practice and the
The Internet Encyclopaedia of Personal Construct Psychology.
Another resource is the
PCP References Database.
See also the
North American Personal Construct Network (NAPCN) site.
Chris Evans has provided access to his and other free:
Rep Grid computer programs.
Kelly's Repertory Grid can be experienced online or used for major research
by utilizing
WebGrid III a free program by
Brian R Gaines and Mildred L G Shaw. Their
Kelly's "Geometry of Psychological Space" and its Significance for Cognitive
Modeling is also available, as are
numerous other papers by them on PCP and its relationship to cognitive science,
education, and knowledge acquisition & modeling.
(POSTED: August 3, 2003; Update October 18, 2003)
Narrative Psychology is a relatively new approach focusing on the process
of individual construction of meaning through "storytelling". This huge site
is devoted to it:
Narrative Psychology: Internet and Resource Guide. Psychoanalysts
will be especially interested in their page on
Psychanalysis & Depth Psychologies
(POSTED: August 3, 2003)
The newest craze in psychology is positive psychology. Its foremost
proponent is Martin Seligman. He has a web site with many classic
and new psychological scales available:
Authentic Happiness.
(POSTED: November 19, 2003)
The
Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences attempts to
apply chaos theory to living phenomena. It has links to other sites on chaos
theory and fractals, etc. Their journal
Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences is now available online.
(POSTED: January 5, 2004)
William Swann is a major social psychologist whose work deals with
how one evaluates ones self in comparison with others and other aspects
of social perception. His
Web Site has many of his papers accessible.
(POSTED: March 2, 2004)
Cognitive Sciences
Cogprints is "an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area
of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer
Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech,
neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic)
, Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour
genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology,
human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology,
cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions
of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the
study of cognition." For example, Moam Chomsky's classic
A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior is available here.
(POSTED: October 7, 2003)
CogNews is a "news site for the cognitive sciences -- neurology, psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, linguistics, biology, sociology, anthropolgy and more. Basically anything that has to do with thinking, intelligence or how the mind works."
(POSTED: January 4, 2004)
For basic writing by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science,
from Frederic Bartlett and Jean Piaget, to David Chalmers and Gerald Edelman, go to:
Celebrities in Cognitive Science.
To see what these major cognitive scientists look like (pictures), go to:
gallery of Cognitive Scientists.
(POSTED: March 27, 2004)
Piero Scaruffi has complied a
Webliography of Mind-related Topics which links an extremely large number of
web resources on cognitive science. He also has an incredible:
Annotated Bibliography of Mind-related Topics.
(POSTED: March 27, 2004)
One recent development in cognitive science that I believe has great
potential for psychoanalysis is the work on
conceptual blending by
Mark Turner and
Gilles Fauconnier in their book
The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden
Complexities. New York: Basic Books 2002). [ See also:
Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online
As of this time, a Danish website is under development:
International Website for Research in Mental Space and Conceptual Integration
Theory]. A related web site is
Metaphor Review by Author, with introductions to classic and contemporary
authors on metaphor, including Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner
and George Lakoff.
(POSTED: August 3, 2003)
Related to Conceptual Blending is the work on the bodily basis of metaphor
by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and colleagues. The
Conceptual Metaphor Home Page has descriptions of dozens of bodily
metaphors identified by George Lakoff. It is intended as a research
resource. Another resource is the metaphors of mind database:
ATT-Meta Project Databank: Examples of Usage of Metaphors of Mind . Tim Rohrer has a nice discussion of the
philosophical issues involved in metaphor theory and its relationship
to neurobiology:
The Cognitive Science of Metaphor from
Philosophy to Neuroscience (pdf). Also available is his dissertation:
When Metaphors Bewitch, Analogies Illustrate, And Logic Fails: Controversies
Over The Use Of Metaphoric Reasoning In Philosophy And Science
The paper
Blending and Metaphor by Joseph E. Grady, Todd Oakley,
& Seana Coulson explore the relationship between the
Lakoff-Johnson and the Fauconnier-Turner approach.
(POSTED: August 3, 2003; update October 16, 2005)
The Observer Web: Autopoiesis and Enaction provides an introduction
to the theories of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela.
(POSTED: August 3, 2003)
The work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) has been extraordinarily
influential. Many of his works, and works of his students are available at the:
Lev Vygotsky Archive. See also the broader site:
Psychology and Marxism.
(POSTED: March 27, 2004)
Neuroscience
The Brain Connection has many resources to help learn about neural structure and
function. Much of their material is practically oriented (e.g.
Autism in the Classroom). Of special interest to BGSP/ISV folks is the
Motivation and Emotion section.
The also have a biweekly e-newsletter
Brain Buzz (POSTED: May 9, 2003)
The
Whole Brain Atlas has extensive resources to help locate virtually any
brain structure, or understand the effects of various illnesses on the brain.
(POSTED: May 9, 2003)
dana.org, the web site of the Dana Foundation has extensive
links to pure and applied resources on the brain
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
David Lane and Zhihua Tang have designed a
Multimedia Textbook in Behavioral Neuroscience, with a number of
contributors, and support from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.
Topics include: Language, Attention and Perception, Thinking,
and Autism. (POSTED: May 24, 2003)
Matthew D. Lieberman's Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Laboratory
is examining the interface of neurobiology and social behavior.
For an introduction to their work, see
The Emergence of Social Cognitive Neuroscience.
Most notable is their recent study suggesting a biological link between
physical pain and the pain of social exclusion:
Images Show a Snub Really Is Like Kick in the Gut (news article),
actual paper by Naomi Eisenberger, Matthew Lieberman, & Kipling
Williams from Science:
Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion; comment in
Science by
Jaak Panksepp:
Feeling the Pain of Social Loss. To listen to a BBC discussion,
click
here.
(POSTED: October 17, 2003)
Neuro Scholar: Knowledge Management of the Neuroscientific literature
(POSTED: April 22, 2003) Among their goals are:
To develop a general framework for the knowledge-management
of published information in general (involving automated communication with other
databases).
To design and implement a formal computational approach to studying the neural
basis of behavior by representing each of the various different types of neuroscientific
papers that are relevant to this issue, including those that describe ethological,
physiological, neuroanatomical and neurochemical experiments.
Psychiatry
Psychiatry Online is the first online psychiatry journal. They also have
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry On-Line and
Transcultural Mental Health On-Line
(POSTED: June 17, 2003)
Many materials on mental disorders and related topics are available from
the
National Institute of Mental health.
(POSTED: December 29, 2003)
Asperger Syndrome is a newly-identified condition receiving a lot of attention.
O.A.S.I.S. - Online Asperger Syndrome Information & Support
has a variety of materials, including a number of classic papers, diagnostic scales, etc.
(POSTED: March 19, 2004)
Substance Abuse
SAMHSA (the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration) maintains
the
National Center for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (NCADI) which
is the main Federal repository for substance abuse information. Many
reports, monographs, etc., can be ordered there, most for free. Similarly,
the
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has many documents online. Of
special interest is the classic Research report
Psychodynamics of Drug Dependence (pdf) (Published in 1977. Many of the
most important psychoanalytic thinkers on addictions are included).
The
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) also has
many publications also available.
(POSTED: October 20, 2003)
Join Together Online has extensive research, practice, and policy news on
substance abuse and
gun violence. One can search their website, or sign up for daily or
weekly e-mail alerts. (POSTED: June 4, 2003)
The
Prevention Research Center provides
Prevention in the News, updated hourly.
(POSTED: July 9, 2004)
Stanton Peele Addiction Web Site has a number of works by Stanton Peele,
challenging the conventional view of drug use and abuse.
(POSTED: March 19, 2004)
Violence
Check out
Resources for the Study of Violence, constructed by me for BGSP's
Institute for the Study of Violence
(POSTED: June 10, 2003)
Join Together Online has extensive research, practice, and policy news on
substance abuse and
gun violence. One can search their website, or sign up for daily or
weekly e-mail alerts. (POSTED: June 4, 2003)
Longitudinal & Life-Course Studies
The
Murray Research Center at Radcliffe, in Cambridge, MA, collects
longitudinal data sets, which are are available by request from the Center.
They also have an excellent Brown Bag Lecture Series on longitudinal research
and life-course studies.
(POSTED: November 11, 2003 & March 9, 2004)
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
"is a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood....
Add Health is the largest, most comprehensive survey of adolescents ever undertaken."
(POSTED: March 9, 2004)
Data at the individual, family, school, and community levels were collected in two waves between 1994 and 1996. In 2001 and 2002, Add Health respondents, 18 to 26 years old, were re-interviewed in a third wave to investigate the influence that adolescence has on young adulthood.
Multiple datasets are available for study, and more than 1000 published reports and journal articles have used the data to analyze aspects of these complex issues.
Glen H. Elder, Jr. is pioneer of life-course research. A few of his papers
and lectures are available online:
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS / MANUSCRIPTS. See also
Overview of Dr. Elder's Research. Also,
Carolina Population Center, directed by Dr. Elder, has descriptions of a number
of classic
Life Course Studies that were carried out there.
(POSTED: March 9, 2004)
Social Science
The
Social Science Information Gateway is a general portal to all
social sciences. It aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high
quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and
practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
The
Social Science Research Network (SSRN " is devoted to the rapid worldwide
dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized
research networks in each of the social sciences"
(POSTED: September 17, 2004)
Two online journals:
Sociological Research Online " publishes high quality applied
sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions
which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and
debates. ". And the
Electronic Journal of Sociology.
(POSTED: August 3, 2003 & January 9, 2004)
Another online journal, in existence for over 10 years:
Current Research in Social Psychology.
(POSTED: October 27, 2004)
Another omnibus site, connected to a textbook, is
Research Resources for the Social Sciences
(POSTED: August 3, 2003)
SocioSite is a portal devoted to sociology as a field and as a profession.
It also list an incredible collection of search engines and search tools.
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: January 9, 2004)
Need a definition? The
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences has it.
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: January 9, 2004)
The
ethnopsychiatrie.net [in French] conducts work on the interface of
psychoanalysis and anthropology. See also
Le Centre Georges Devereux Some papers are available in
English
(POSTED: October , 2003)
RePEc and the associated
Ideas are part of a "a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 41
countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of
the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles
and software components. All RePEc material is freely available." The system
contains Working Papers, Articles, Chapters, Books, and Software Components.
IDEAS is a service providing information about working papers and
published research to the economics profession.
(POSTED: January 9, 2004)
C2-SPECTR "is a registry of over 10,000 randomized and possibly randomized trials in education, social work and welfare, and criminal justice."
It is maintained by the Campbell Collaboration, and is a resource for the development of systematic reviews.
(POSTED: March 25, 2004)
For Social Network Analysis, the 151 page:
Introduction to Social Network Methods by Robert A. Hanneman is a good place to start.
Other Social Network resources:
International Network for Social Network Analysis has extensive resources, including
their journal:
Connections with the last few issues available as pdf files;
the e-journal:
Journal of Social Structure; the
Social Network Analysis Instructional Web Site contains numerous handouts on
network analysis topics.
For actually conducting the analyses (software), the Open Source project:
StOCNET is an impressive "project that builds an advanced software
system for statistical social network analysis." It is free..
The:
UCINET 6 analysis program can be tried for 30 days for free. Also look at:
Pajek: Program for Large Network Analysis. Tom Snidjers'
Social Network Analysis page has additional links.
(POSTED: August 6 & December 23, 2004)
Medicine
Medical symptoms have significant psychological components. Hence, the
development of research on medical symptoms (as opposed to diseases
is an important development. Here is an interesting hyperlinked
Interactive Textbook on Clinical Symptom Research. Topics include:
Design of clinical trials; Psychology of patient decision making;
Within-patient (n-of-1) studies; Qualitative research methods; Statistics
for prognostication; Clinical economics; Quality improvement; Using
administrative data sets; Secondary analysis of large surveys;
Insomnia; Fatigue; Delirium; Constipation; etc..
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
FreeBooks4Doctors has identified over 600 books available for free download.
For example, there are 22 books on
Psychiatry. This is a service of
Amedeo.com which offers free weekly updates on medical literature on
topics of interest. for example, one can choose choose to be updated about
depression, with materials from 19 top journals. They also maintain
an excellent list of
1320 free "medical" journals. For example, there are 10 in Psychology,
21 in Psychiatry, etc.
(POSTED: January 19, 2004)
The European Organisation of Family Health Research
has information on medical research with a decidedly European slant.
(POSTED: August 21, 2006)
Evaluation & Program Evaluation
The
American Evaluation Association is a major professional organization.
See especially their
Links page.
(POSTED: April 1, 2005)
Another general evaluation site is:
WWW Virtual Library: Evaluation.
(POSTED: April 1, 2005)
There are extensive evaluation web links at this course web site:
Program Evaluation in Agriculture and Extension.
(POSTED: April 1, 2005)
For programs contemplating evaluations, an excellent resources is the
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Evaluation Toolkit, an online set of resources on designing an evaluation.
Other excellent resources from the Kellogg Foundation include their:
Evaluation Handbook and their:
Logic Model Development Guide.
(POSTED: April 1, 2005)
Judith Wilde and Suzanne Sockey have an online:
Evaluation Handbook/
(POSTED: April 1, 2005)
An online:
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation.
(POSTED: April 1, 2005)
Another online periodical from the
Harvard Family Research Project is the:
Evaluation Exchange.
(POSTED: April 15, 2005)
The:
Evaluation Center at the Western Michigan University has extensive resources available.
See, for example, their:
Evaluation Checklists.
(POSTED: April 1, 2005)
General Research Resources
A free organizer for all your notes:
Idea Notes. It allows Boolean searches across many different notes.
Another shareware option to organize your notes is the
InfoRapid Cardfile System. It is also useful for organizing images.
It can even search pdf documents. Also check out their free enhanced file
search utility
InfoRapid Search & Replace.
(POSTED: January 2, 2004)
Medline is the place to search the medical literature.
Another gateway to the Medline database is through
BioMedNet.
(POSTED: August 2 & October 18, 2003)
A new search engine that organizes its finding in categories, which can
help you find what you want easier, is
Vivisimo. It can also be used to organize Medline results from
PubMed.
(POSTED: January 5, 2004)
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Scirus is a search engine devoted solely to the scientific literature
(including the biomedical literature). It includes journal articles and
preprints in addition to web sites.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
The
Public Library of Science (PLoS) "is a non-profit organization of
scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and
medical literature a freely available public resource." Also of interest is
the new
BioMed Central "an independent publishing house committed to providing
immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research"
[italics added]. Among their journals that might be of interest are:
BMC Health Services Research,
BMC Psychiatry,
BMC Public Health,
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, &
BMC Neuroscience.
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Search
BioMed Central
PubMed Central
PubMed
Like Medline,
ERIC is the place to search the education literature. It contains
many specialized documents, such as reports, that may be unavailable anywhere
else. This site is closing, but one can still
Search Eric.
(POSTED: October 18 & December 29, 2003)
CiteSeer (aka: researchIndex) describes itself as "Earth's largest free full-text index of
scientific literature." At present it is strongest for the hard sciences, e.g.,
mathematics or computer science.
(POSTED: October 21, 2003)
Search:
If you're trying to find which online databases abstract, or have full text
for a given journal,
JAKE is for you.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
An incredible idea!
Wikipedia "is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content
encyclopedia. We started on January 15, 2001 and are currently working on 130456 articles
in the English version." Amazingly, anyone can edit any page here, so they
are constantly improving. The psychoanalysis section definitely needs some attention,
if anyone has some free time. Associated with Wikipeda is the
Wikibooks, a project to develop free textbooks. they currently host about 50
in various stages of development.
(POSTED: June 3, 2003 & March 27, 2004)
Then there's
Everything2.com! "a very complex online community with a focus to write, publish and
edit a quality database of information, art and humor". Currently, it has
about 1,000,000 contributions!
(POSTED: June 3, 2003)
E2 is a not-for-profit website containing a wide range of original written material.
The material is voluntarily contributed by people from all around the world. These people
have a common interest in writing, but otherwise represent a broad spectrum of ages,
nationalities and backgrounds.
The Open Directory Project
aims to be the most comprehensive directory of the web. It is free as it is
maintained by an enormous cadre of volunteers.
(POSTED: August 12, 2003)
A free online library with full-text from 300 magazines and journals:
findarticles.com . Contains some professional journals and many popular
magazines. Another source, owned by the same company, of free article access is
looksmart which claims to have "3.5 million articles from over 700 publications"
including a number of psychology and social science journals. [It isn't clear
to me if findarticles.com & looksmart access the same or different content.]
(POSTED: June 18, 2003 & January 9, 2004)
An online library, with 400,000 books and articles available.
Its by subscription, however
Questia (POSTED: June 18, 2003)
Research Methodology
First, you MUST check out my
Statistics Resources web site! It has resources from elementary to advanced, and
is constatly growing.
(POSTED: May 24, 2003)
A good site for social research methods:
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research. It covers such
topics as sampling, statistics, survey methods, policy analysis, research
about research methods, presenting data and writing reports.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
The online quarterly
Social Research Update from the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
has short articles on topics from Focus groups
and Telephone interviewing to Correspondence analysis, Multilevel models
and Secondary analysis of qualitative data.
(POSTED: April 19, 2005)
William M. Trochim
of Cornell University has an online comprehensive research methods
textbook:
Research Methods Knowledge Base (POSTED: May 24, 2003).
It is described as
a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical
introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. It covers the
entire research process including: formulating research questions; sampling (probability
and nonprobability); measurement (surveys, scaling, qualitative, unobtrusive); research
design (experimental and quasi-experimental); data analysis; and, writing the research
paper. It also addresses the major theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of
research...
Clay Helberg has written a valuable discussion of pitfalls to avoid in
statistical data analysis:
Pitfalls of Data Analysis (or How to Avoid Lies and Damned Lies)
(POSTED: May 25, 2003)
Paul Hansel has a Political Methodology Page
Political Methodology Page, with links on Logic and Research Design,
Statsitics, Game Theory, and General-Purpose Data Collections,
as well as various International Relations Data Sets
(POSTED: January 13, 2004)
Steve Simon has a web site with an extensive "collection of handouts
that I use in my job as a statistical consultant."
STATS - STeve's Attempt to Teach Statistics. It includes such important topics
as
How to Read a Medical Journal Article,
Planning your research study
Managing Your Research Data.
(POSTED: January 13, 2004)
David Garson of North Carolina State University has a
very extensive set of notes on statistical and methodological topics,
Statnotes: An Online Textbook including
detailed material on advanced topics, including, (among many others) Structural Equation
Modeling, Path Analysis, Logistic Regression, Discriminant Function Analysis and less detailed
material on dozens of other statistical topics(e.g., Correspondence Analysis,
Canonical Correlation, Latent Class Analysis, Multilevel Modeling/Hierarchical Regression,
and Partial Least Squares),
as well as such non-statistical research topics
as Focus Group Research, Participant Observation, Content Analysis, Sociometry and
Network Analysis, Ethnographic Research, Narrative Analysis, and Theoretical Frameworks.
(POSTED: May 25, 2003)
Methods of Psychological Research is an online journals published by the
Methods Section in the German Psychology Society (DGPs.
(POSTED: January 19, 2004)
Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation (PARE) is an online
journal with many methodological articles and an educational assessment
orientation.
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: October , 2003)
Q methodology is a technique for the quantitative analysis of repeated
intra-individual measurements. It is used in the study of individual
psychotherapy cases, as well as other material (e.g., Luborsky's
Symptom-Context Method). It forms a bridge between the quantitative and
qualitative research traditions. Here is a web page devoted to it:
The QMethod Page
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
Qualitative Research
A nice detailed introduction to qualitative research methods is
available from the Association for Information Systems:
Qualitative Research in Information Systems. Its relevance goes well
beyond IT.
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
Available online is:
The Qualitative Report:
An online journal dedicated to qualitative research since 1990 and another
journal:
Forum - Qualitative Social Research, a multilingual internalional journal.
(POSTED: August 2 & October 21, 2003)
Another online journal is the
International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
(POSTED: August 3, 2003)
The Qualitative Report web site also has an extensive set of
Qualitative Research links
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
Another fine source on qualitative research, with a health orientation:
Qualitative Methods - Internet Resources
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
Yet another resource list:
QualPage: resources for qualitative research
(POSTED: August 3, 2003)
For analysis of "content of human communication, mostly but not limited
to text"
Text Analysis Info
(POSTED: October 18, 2003)
One of the major techniques of qualitative analysis is content
analysis. Here is a site devoted to it:
Content Analysis Resources. Also available is
An accompaniment to the Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberly A. Neuendorf
(POSTED: August 18, 2003)
Based on the dictum of Sherlock Holmes:
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data",
Grounded Theory has emerged as one of the major approaches to
qualitative analysis. A good source of materials is:
Grounded Theory Methodology On The Web
(POSTED: August 2, 2003)
ETHNO/CA News contains "Information on Ethnomethodology
and Conversation Analysis. Other sites on Conversation Analysis
is
An Introduction to Conversation Analysis and
Conversation Analysis.Net (oriented toward Danish researchers). For
Ethnomethodology, see
TTeamEthno-Online "a new, free, on-line journal devoted to ethnomethodological
and/or ethnographic studies of human conduct.
(POSTED: August 10, 2003)
Ethnography contains links to online resources on ethnographic methods.
It includes much practical advice on conducting ethnographic studies.
Ethnography, as defined here, is useful in many situations other than those
of classical anthropology, such as organizational research.
(POSTED: August 10, 2003)
Here is a comprehensive site devoted to
Semiotics, the study of signs, maintained by Martin Ryder
of the University of Colorado at Denver. Materials range from beginning to
advanced. Another detailed site is
Sites of Significance for Semiotics (in English & Français )
(POSTED: August 10, 2003)
Here are a couple of nice introductions to Qualitative Data Analysis:
Qualitative Data Analysis (pdf) by John V. Seidel &
Theory Building in Qualitative Research and Computer Programs for the
Management of Textual Data by Udo Kelle.
(POSTED: August 10, 2003)
Examples of qualitative research can be found in the NIDA Research Monographs:
Qualitative Methods in Drug Abuse and HIV Research, available online.
(POSTED: December 29, 2003)
a major technique used in qualitative research is the focus group. Some
useful resources:
Focus Groups by Anita Gibbs from
Social Research Update. Carter McNamara has put together:
Conducting Focus Groups.
(POSTED: April 19, 2005)
Research Software
NOTE: Statistics software is listed on my
Statistics Resources web site.
Chris Evans has made available a selection of:
Statistical and psychometric utilities for psychotherapy and counselling research.
(POSTED: November 24, 2004)
Here is a site for links regarding various
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software
(POSTED: August 10, 2003)
Concept Maps
are a useful tool for exploring an individual or group's conceptual structure. The
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition of the University of West
Florida has developed publicly-available
CMaps software for concept mapping (Available for Windows, Mac,
Linux, Solaris). Also available commercially ($69.95 at this time)for concept
map elicitation,especially in educational contexts is
Inspiration.
[NOTE: The term Concept Maps has two distinct meanings. the one
here was developed by John Novak. See below for
Bill Trochim's completely different use. To add to the confusion,
both Novak & Trochim are at Cornell!]
(PPOSTED: August 3, 2003)
Here is a site devoted to Bill Trochim's version of
Concept Mapping {Not to be confused with John Novak's
use of the term (above).]
Concept Mapping Resource Guide. There is also free software,
Concept System, available.
(POSTED: August 3, 2003)
Most Qualitative Data Analysis software cost hundreds of dollars.
Avaiable for free from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
is
AnSWR . "AnSWR is a software system for coordinating and conducting
large-scale, team-based analysis projects that integrate qualitative and
quantitative techniques."
Also avaialble is
CDC EZ - TEXT from the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers
for Disease Control and Preventiom. It is a software program
developed to assist researchers create, manage, and analyze semi-structured
qualitative databases. Researchers can design a series of data entry
templates tailored to their questionnaire. These questionnaires are usually
administered during face-to-face interviews with a sample of respondents. A
response to a question may be entered into EZ-Text either as a verbatim
transcript (e.g., from a tape recording), or a summary generated from the
interviewer's notes.
For Content Analysis there is:
CodeRead - an autocoding mechanism for text-based data
"a computer-based system for systematically coding large quantities of free-form
textual data. The system’s principal innovation is its ability to generate
coding rules from a pre-coded sample of text. This capacity allows for the
analysis of much longer textual data than was previously practical. It also
insures that the rules used for coding such data are specific and uniformly
applied." Also
VBPro: Programs for Content Analysis. Now available is the DOS version of
Intext
(POSTED: August 18, 2003)
Textalyser will give detailed statistics on a text sample or web site,
including word frequency, sentence length, readability, etc. Free and web-based.
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: April 14, 2004)
For Social Network Analysis, the Open Source project:
StOCNET is an impressive "project that builds an advanced software
system for statistical social network analysis." It is free..
The:
UCINET 6 analysis program can be tried for 30 days for free. Also look at:
Pajek: Program for Large Network Analysis is also free.
(POSTED: August 6 & December 23, 2004)
Public Use Data Sets & Official Statistics
The
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
has many public use data sets available.
(POSTED: July 20, 2003)
FedStats is a gateway to statistics from over 100 federal agencies.
(POSTED: January 4, 2004)
The
Data and Story Library "is an online library of datafiles and stories
that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods."
(POSTED: November 10, 2003)
The Harvard-MIT
Virtual Data Center is creating free software "to enable the sharing of
quantitative research data, and the development of distributed virtual
collections of data and documentation." This software is currently in use
at the
Harvard MIT Data Center VDC which makes an extensive collection of
data sets available online. You can perform search for topics. A
search for tobacco yielded 10 data sets. Some of the data sets
from the
Murray Research Center collection of longitudinal data are available here.
Others are available by request from the Center.
(POSTED: November 11, 2003)
If you are looking for social indicators, archived data sets
for secondary analyses, or other online data:
Data on the Net is an extensive set of links to social science data
available on the web, compiled by the University of California, San Diego.
(POSTED: August 10, 2003)
For UK social and economic data sets, see the
UK Data Archive & the
Edinburgh University Data Library.
(POSTED: October 20, 2003)
Here is another page with extensive
links to data sets, with an emphasis on Canadian data, but many general
links.
(POSTED: November 11, 2003)
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)
"is a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood....
Add Health is the largest, most comprehensive survey of adolescents ever undertaken."
(POSTED: March 9, 2004)
Data at the individual, family, school, and community levels were collected in two waves between 1994 and 1996. In 2001 and 2002, Add Health respondents, 18 to 26 years old, were re-interviewed in a third wave to investigate the influence that adolescence has on young adulthood.
Multiple datasets are available for study, and more than 1000 published reports and journal articles have used the data to analyze aspects of these complex issues.
Administer Surveys
You can administer one survey for free for 10 days without paying at:
Free Online Surveys.com. After that, you can pay to administer
the surveys. (POSTED: April 26, 2003)
Another source for online survey administration, also with a free trial:
PsychData (POSTED: May 10, 2003)
Yet another source:
Web Online Surveys
(POSTED: August 7, 2003)
To figure out what to put in your surveys, don't recreate the wheel. The
Question Bank contains many classic surveys for you to draw upon. While
based in the UK, it can be very useful in suggesting items to use.
(POSTED: October 20, 2003)
Writing Research Papers
Here's a source for information on basic APA Style, required by many
journals (and professors):
APA Style Essentials. See also:
PSsychology With Style: A Hypertext Writing Guide.
Another source for reference formatting:
Summary of Guidelines for Formatting References According to the APA Style Guide: 5th Edition.
(POSTED: October 18, 2003 & October 12, 2005)
There are several useful guides to writing research reports available
online. One is
A Guide to Report Writing , which is based on the model of an experimental
psychology paper, but gives a good brief overview which can be modified for
other types of papers. Another is
How to Write a Scholarly Research Report by Lawrence M. Rudner
& William D. Schafer. Both of these will get you started.
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: October 18, 2003)
Research Funding
Community of Science has many resources to aid searches for funding
opportunities.
(POSTED: October 20, 2003)
Political/Social Context of Research
A new online journal places psychology in the broader social context:
Social Practice / Psychological Theorizing.
(POSTED: March 13, 2006)
Social Practice / Psychological Theorizing is launched as a modest attempt to bring together, mediate and transform many diverse discourses across disciplines, most of which are rather isolated and dichotomized at present: the psychological and the social, theory and practice, micro and macro, mind and body, reason and emotion, the individual and the society, culture and nature, private and public, male and female, the I and the other, center and periphery, qualitative and quantitative, subjective and objective; plus many further dualities.
Another e-journal:
Social Action / Acción Social, a peer-reviewed e-journal published by
Psychologists for Social Responsibility and
Counselors for Social Justice.
(POSTED: March 14, 2006)
The
Union of Concerned Scientists has issued a statement
Restoring Scientific Integrity condemning the Bush Administration's radical
distortions of scientific knowledge in support of its corporate agenda. The Statement
is signed by
signed by 19 National Medal of Science signatories and 20 Nobel Laureates,
among many others. It is backed up by a report:
Scientific Integrity in Policymaking:
An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science. [See
also the commentary by Mike Morford
Mother Nature, The Hate Crime: More than 60 world-class scientists agree: BushCo
just really, really loathes this planet and the article on scientific distortion by
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Junk Science of George W. Bush.]
(POSTED: February 28, 2004)
Tufts University School of Medicine professor of Public Health
Anthony Robbins raises the alarm about the Bush Administration's
unprecedented stacking of federal scientific advisory committees with those
who support administration policies, thus undercutting independent review.
Their latest trick is to mandate that only scientists not receiving any grant
funding from an agency could sit on review panels. In effect, all independent scientists
would be excluded and only those funded by industry would be allowed!
Science for special interests.
(PUBLISHED and POSTED: December 7, 2003)
Alan Sokal is a physicist who is opposed to what he sees as obscurntist,
post-modern tendencies in the social/human sciences. He published a supposed
"post-modern" critique of physics
Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
in the journal
Social Text in 1996. The paper consisted of a collection of post-modern phrases
interspersed with arbitrarily chosen physics terms, resulting in a paper with
no meaning. The paper passed through peer review! Sokal then revealed the hoax
at a press conference, covered by the New York Times on the front page,
sparking a heated controversy on the role of "objectivity" and "science".
Here is an
archive of contributions to this controversy. It also contains a link to
the clever
Postmodernism Generator which randomly generates completely meaningless
post-modern contributions to various fields! A new source of papers
for students to claim as their own?
(POSTED: January 6, 2004)
[Sample I generated:] "Consciousness is part of the fatal
flaw of culture," says Marx. But the subject is contextualised into a
capitalist semioticism that includes narrativity as a totality. An abundance
of narratives concerning a subsemantic whole may be revealed.
If one examines the textual paradigm of narrative, one is faced
with a choice: either reject capitalist sublimation or conclude that culture
is used to reinforce hierarchy. In a sense, if neotextual capitalist theory
holds, we have to choose between the textual paradigm of narrative and the
postdeconstructive paradigm of consensus. The subject is interpolated into a
neotextual capitalist theory that includes language as a totality.
Complied by
Stephen Soldz
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
1581 Beacon St.
Brookline, MA 02446
http://soldzresearch.com/stephensoldz
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Statistics Resources web site
Resources for the Study of Violence &
Psychoanalytic Resources Online
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