Critical Analysis in Psychology: The essential guide to interrogating published research

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If something is published, does that mean it's true? By encouraging the critical reading and analysis of psychological research reports and showing how design principles and statistics are applied, A.J. Shephard empowers students to read between the lines of any published study and draw their own conclusions. Using synopses of published research articles as examples, students are shown how to work out if summary claims made by authors or the media reflect an experiment's real findings. Through guided analysis of both quantitative and qualitative real-world research, students will learn to: .Review research articles comprehensively and critically .Understand the rationale, logic and purpose of an article .Identify the hypotheses (whether stated or unstated) .Assess the suitability of the research methods used .Analyse the implied interpretation of the results, and ultimately... .Become an active - rather than a passive - reader of scientific articles A.J. Shepherd is Reader in Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She has over 20 years of experience teaching Critical Analysis to Psychology Students.