additional Activities

Do People Feel Immoral After Behaving Inauthentically?

Original article: Gino, F., Kouchaki, M., & Galinsky, A. D. (2015). The moral virtue of authenticity: How inauthenticity produces feelings of immorality and impurity. Psychological Science, 26, 983-996.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Compute new variables

  2. Conduct reliability analyses to find Cronbach’s alpha

  3. Calculate descriptive statistics

  4. Create a table


Why do People Fail to Follow Through on Their Good Intentions?

Original article: Rogers, T. & Milkman, K. L. (2016). Reminders through association. Psychological Science, 27, 973-986.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Use the select cases function

  2. Conduct chi-square test of independence

  3. Conduct independent samples t-tests

  4. Create a table


Questionable Research Practices

Original article: John, L. K., Loewenstein, G., & Prelec, D. (2012). Measuring the prevalence of questionable research practices with incentives for truth telling. Psychological Science, 23, 524-532.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify common QRPs

  2. Analyze the impacts of QRPs

  3. Propose solutions to reduce the frequency of QRPs


Preregistration of Hypotheses

Original article: Lindsay, D. S., Simons, D. J., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2016, November 30). Research preregistration 101 [Web Article]. Retrieved from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/research-preregistration-10...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify the benefits and limitations of preregistration

  2. Learn the steps involved in preregistering a hypothesis