Part of teaching the descriptive phenomenological psychological method is to assist students in grasping their previously unrecognized assumptions regarding the meaning of “science.” This paper is intended to address a variety of assumptions that are encountered when introducing students to the descriptive phenomenological psychological method pioneered by Giorgi. These assumptions are: 1) That...

Most theories in the areas of personality, clinical, and social psychology predict no more than the direction of a correlation, group difference, or treatment effect. Since the null hypothesis is never strictly true, such predictions have about a SO-SO chance of being confirmed by experiment when the theory in question is false, since the statistical significance of the result is a function of ...

Psychologists often do not consider the optimality of their research designs. However, increasing costs of using inefficient designs requires psychologists to adopt more efficient designs and to use more powerful analysis strategies. Common designs with many factor levels and equal allocations of observations are often inefficient for the specific questions most psychologists want to answer. Ha...

Researchers have found that communication quality is a major indicator of how satisfied partners are in a romantic relationship. This study centered on that aspect but added a facet in that it tested individuals’ perceptions of communication and satisfaction within their relationships in separate environments in order to test the theory that certain environments may alter our moods, attitudes, ...

This study investigated university female students’ (who perceived their stress levels as mild, moderate, or severe) scores on a stress inventory. Two hundred fifty-eight women responded to the Student-life Stress Inventory and reported their age. Instructors provided students’ semester course grades. Significant differences were found among the stress level groups on all inventory category sco...

THIS paper reports some special aspects of a research project which has been carried on for the past three and a half years. The major part of the project was the clinical study of eminent research scientists in various fields of science, and a consideration of differences and similarities among them in life histories and test performances. The full reports of the study have been published else...