Tag
Research Methods
Entries tagged research methods.
4 entries
Concept
Demand Characteristics
Participants and experimenters read the study's unspoken cues and bend the results toward what they think it is looking for.
8 min
ConceptIdiographic versus Nomothetic Approaches
The split between studying general laws that hold across people and understanding the single individual in depth.
9 min
ConceptInternal and External Validity
Two questions every study faces: can we trust its causal claim on its own terms, and does that claim hold outside the study?
7 min
ConceptThe Placebo Effect
The measurable change in a person that follows an inert treatment, driven not by the treatment but by expectation, conditioning, and the ritual of being cared for.
10 min