Research Catalog

Title

The volunteer subject [by] Robert Rosenthal [and] Ralph L. Rosnow.

Author

Rosenthal, Robert, 1933-2024

Publication

New York, Wiley [1975]

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Details

Additional Authors

Rosnow, Ralph L.

Description

xiv, 266 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Wiley series on personality processes

Uniform Title

Wiley series on personality processes.

Subject

• Human experimentation in psychology
• Volunteers > Psychology
• Experimental design
• Human experimentation in medicine
• Psychology, Experimental
• Human Experimentation
• Psychology, Experimental
• Research Design
• Expérimentation humaine en psychologie
• Plan d'expérience
• Expérimentation humaine en médecine
• Psychologie expérimentale
• Human experimentation in medicine
• Experimental design
• Human experimentation in psychology
• Volunteers > Psychology
• Verhaltenswissenschaften
• Versuchsperson
• Proefpersonen
• Experimentele psychologie
• Psicologia Experimental
• Verhaltenswissenschaften
• Versuchsperson
• Psychology Experiments Use of volunteer subjects

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 207-247.

Contents

1. Volunteer bias -- The reliability of volunteering -- 2. Characteristics of the volunteer subject -- Assessing the nonvolunteer -- Sex -- Birth order -- Sociability -- Extraversion -- Self-disclosure -- Altruism -- Achievement need -- Approval need -- Conformity -- Authoritarianism -- Conventionality -- Arousal-seeking -- Anxiety -- Psychopathology -- Intelligence -- Education -- Social class -- Age -- Marital status -- Religion -- Size of town of origin -- Summary of volunteer characteristics -- 3. Situational determinants of volunteering -- Material incentives -- Aversive tasks -- Guilt, happiness, and competence -- Normative expectations -- Public versus private commitment -- Prior acquaintanceship -- Recruiter characteristics -- Task importance -- Subject interest -- Organizational and interpersonal bonds -- Expectation of favorable evaluation -- Summary of situational determinants of volunteering -- Suggestions for the reduction o volunteer bias -- 4. Implications for the interpretation of research findings -- An ethical dilemma -- The threat to robustness -- Motivational differences and representativeness -- The threat to the validity of inferred causality -- 5. Empirical research on voluntarism as an artifact -- Independent variable -- Exploratory research -- Type-I and Type-II error outcomes -- The "good subject" in verbal-conditioning research -- When compliance shifts to self-defense -- Role expectations of volunteers and nonvolunteers -- Summary of the research findings and conclusions -- 6. An integrative overview -- The artifact-influence model -- Steps in the artifact-influence process -- Inferential validity as an assessment criterion -- Representative research design -- 7. Summary -- Reliability of volunteering -- Assessing the nonvolunteer -- Volunteer characteristics -- Situational determinants -- Suggestions for reducing volunteer bias -- An ethical dilemma -- Robustness of research findings -- The artifact problem -- Motivational elements -- An artifact-influence model.

ISBN

• 0471736708
• 9780471736707

LCCN

74016378

OCLC

• ocm01031210
• 1031210
• SCSB-276004

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library