Psych 511 Readings

  • Theories, constructs, and nomological networks (Notes here)
    • Types of Measurement Validity (https://conjointly.com/kb/measurement-validity-types/)
    • Idea of Construct Validity (https://conjointly.com/kb/construct-validity-idea/)
    • Convergent & Discriminant (https://conjointly.com/kb/convergent-and-discriminant-validity/)
    • Threats to Construct Validity (https://conjointly.com/kb/construct-validity-threats/)
  • More on Theories, constructs, and nomological networks (Notes here)
    • The Nomological Network (https://conjointly.com/kb/nomological-network/)
    • Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix (https://conjointly.com/kb/multitrait-multimethod-matrix/)
    • Pattern Matching (https://conjointly.com/kb/construct-validity-pattern-matching/)
    • Another take on the topic: “The Validation Crisis in Psychology” (https://replicationindex.com/category/nomological-networks/)
  • What does it mean to “measure” a construct?
    • Ozer, D. (1999). Four Principles of Personality Assessment (2nd edition of the Handbook, 1999, pp. 671-686). Notes here.
    • Spiegel, A. (2005). Annals of Medicine: The dictionary of disorder. The New Yorker. Notes here.
  • What does it mean to “manipulate” a construct?
    • Chester, D. S., & Lasko, E. N. (2021). Construct Validation of Experimental Manipulations in Social Psychology: Current Practices and Recommendations for the Future. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(2), 377–395. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620950684. Notes here.
  • Example of “personality” constructs: The Five-Factor model of individual differences
    • Costa, Paul T., and Robert McCrae, 'The NEO Inventories as Instruments of Psychological Theory', in Thomas A. Widiger (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Five Factor Model, Oxford Library of Psychology (2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 10 Sept. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.10,
    • Epstein, S. (1994). Trait theory as personality theory: Can a part be as great as the whole? Psychological Inquiry, 5, 120-122.. Notes here.
    • Cultural differences in the factor structure of “personality” items
      • Henrich, Joseph, Heine, Steven J, & Norenzayan, Ara. (2010). The weirdest people in the world? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2-3), 61-83.
      • Gurven, M., von Rueden, C., Massenkoff, M., Kaplan, H., & Lero Vie, M. (2013). How universal is the Big Five? Testing the five-factor model of personality variation among forager–farmers in the Bolivian Amazon. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(2), 354–370.
    • An alternative approach to individual differences: Cognitive-Affective Processing System model
      • Shoda, Y., Wilson*, N. L., Whitsett*, D. D., Lee-Dussud*, J., & Zayas*, V. (2015). The person as a cognitive-affective processing system: Quantitative ideography as an integral component of cumulative science. In M. Mikulincer, P. R. Shaver, M. L. Cooper, & R. J. Larsen (Eds.), APA handbook of personality and social psychology, Volume 4: Personality processes and individual differences. (pp. 491–513).
      • Whitsett, D. D., & Shoda, Y. (2014). Examining the Heterogeneity of the Effects of Situations across Individuals Does Not Require A Priori Identification and Measurement of Individual Difference Variables. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 94-104.