My Biggest Research Mistake (eBook)

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: How I Learned from Mistakes - Robert J. Sternberg
I. Failure in conceptualizing research
2. Grandiosity and Overambition - Nick Haslam
3. Separating Data-Based From Non-Data-Based Evaluations - Harry P. Bahrick
4. Too Clever by Half - Judy S. Deloache
5. Death is Not the Answer - Barbara Finlay
6. Thinking More Is More When Less Is More - E. Tory Higgins
7. Manipulation Checks Can Ruin Your Study - Ying-yi Hong
8. Beware of Popular Premises - Jerome Kagan
9. The Need for Blind Testing - Saul M. Kassin
10. Finding Implicit Memory in Posthypnotic Amnesia - John F. Kihlstrom
11. Social Coordination in the Wild - Joachim I. Krueger and Johannes Ullrich
12. Data Distress - Barbara C. Malt
13. A Big Mistake in Interpreting Cultural Differences - David Matsumoto and Hyisung C. Hwang
14. In Praise of Pilot Studies - Richard McCarty
15. Start Strong, Plan Ahead - Nora S. Newcombe
16. A Mistake in Studying the Role of Sleep in Speech - Howard C. Nusbaum
17. Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Impasse - Lisa S. Onken
18. Be as Careful After Your Study Is Run as You Are Before - Richard E. Petty
19. Lessons Learned From a Failed Experiment - Paul Slovic
20. Raging Hormones - Laurence Steinberg
21. A Failure in Fidelity of Experimental Treatments - Robert J. Sternberg
22. Stumbling in the Dark - Peter Suedfeld
23. Pilot, Pilot, Pilot - Rebecca Treiman
24. Failure to Recognize Surface Differences Doesn’t Necessarily Imply Underlying Processing Differences - Ovid J. L. Tzeng
25. Farfel Flees From His Feast - Bernard Weiner
II. Prematurely jumping to conclusions
26. Jumping to the Wrong Conclusion: A Lesson About People and Learning - Eva L. Baker
III. Following a garden path
27. Why Didn’t I See It Earlier? - Maya Bar-Hillel
28. Losing Time - Charlotte J. Patterson
IV. Using measures of dubious reliability/validity
29. Virginity in Mate Selection - David M. Buss
30. New Fields, New Errors: Breaking Rules Every Researcher Should Know - Robert A. Baron
31. How Do We Compare Sensory or Hedonic Intensities Across Groups? - Linda M. Bartoshuk and Derek J. Snyder
32. Science Marches on Its Measures - Larry E. Beutler and Samarea Lenore.
33. Reliability Is Not Readiness - C. J. Brainerd
34. The Importance of Being There - Gary P. Latham
35. Failure to Conduct a Pilot Study - Frank C. Worrell
V. Carelessness
36. Small Change—Big Mistake: Check and Check Again - Daniel R. Ilgen
37. Losing My Dissertation Data - Reinhold Kliegl
38. Peers, Procedures, and Panic: A Careless Error That Offered a Lifetime of Benefits - Mitchell J. Prinstein
39. Multiple Missteps: The Twin Study That Should Have Been - Nancy L. Segal
40. Always Late: Causes and Consequences Far and Wide - June Price Tangney
41. When Results Are Too Good to be True, They Are Probably Not True - Thomas S. Wallsten, Gal Zauberman, and Dan Ariely
VI. Overrelying on others
42. Of Course Our Program Is Error-Free—Not! - Mary Hegarty
43. Hiring a Woman to Do a Man’s Job: The Perils of Equal Opportunity Employment When Running (Ruining) Social Psychological Experiments - Julie T. Fitness
44. The Case of the Enterprising Instructor - Regina F. Frey and Mark A. McDaniel
VII. Error in statistical analysis
45. Self-Help Can Be No Help at All: Some Unambiguous Advice - Donald J. Foss
46. A Third-Variable Problem in Face Recognition - Isabel Gauthier
VIII. Generalizability of findings
47. Not Establishing the Cross-cultural Validity of Measures of Key Constructs in a High-Stakes Field Experiment - J. Lawrence Aber
48. Ecological Validity: Mistaking the Lab for Real life - Karen E. Adolph
49. A Major Error in the Evaluation of Psychological Treatments for Anxiety - David H. Barlow
IX. Failure to understand the “system”
50. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) - Stephen J. Ceci
51. A Missed Opportunity to Improve on Credibility Analysis in Criminal law - Klaus Fiedler
52. The Importance of Professional Discourse - Jack M. Fletcher
53. “Nem di Gelt?” or Can Accepting Grant Awards Be a Bad Thing? - Richard M. Lerner and Jun Wang
54. Keep Your Friends Close But Your Enemies Closer: With Whom Should You Share Your Creative Ideas? - David B. Pisoni
55. Walking Ethical Tightropes in Research Collaborations - Jonathan A. Plucker
X. Societal costs outweigh societal benefits
56. The Danger of Superficial Success - James C. Kaufman
57. Kinds of Research Mistakes - Robert J. Sternberg
Index