Donald McBurney and co-author Theresa White bring years of dedicated scholarship, research, and teaching experience to RESEARCH METHODS. This concise text puts psychological research into a larger scientific context, to show students how psychology fits into a scientific approach to understanding the world. The authors cover all stages of the research process using a step-by-step approach, from project selection, literature search and research protocol selection to publication processes. Utilizing a wide variety of problems that have been selected from psychological literature, McBurney and White successfully convey the excitement and creativity of designing and conducting research.

Donald H. McBurney is Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has been since 1967. Previously he taught at the University of Tennessee, after receiving his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at Brown University in 1964. He has numerous publications in his areas of interest, which include the psychophysics of taste, evolutionary psychology, critical thinking, and a skeptical approach to the paranormal. Besides research methods, he teaches sensation and perception, evolutionary psychology, and history of psychology. His professional and personal interests intersect in studying the taste of chili peppers. His hobbies include gardening, sailing, and travel; the latter interest led a few years ago to serving as a faculty member with Semester at Sea, a 10-country, educational voyage around the world. Dr. Theresa L. White earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Warwick (UK) in 1997. Previously she had completed a MSc. in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University. Dr. White is a graduate of Boise State University, where she earned her B.A. degree in Psychology. Dr. White has been actively involved in studying the human olfactory system and has collaborated extensively over the past number of years in the laboratories of the SUNY Upstate Medical University. She has published in a variety of journals such as "The British Journal of Psychology," "American Journal of Psychology," "Chemical Senses," "Perception and Psychophysics," "Physiology and Behavior," and "Teaching of Psychology," among others. Her teaching experience has included courses in Introductory Psychology, Brain and Behavior, Learning Behavior Analysis, Sensation and Perception,and Research Methods. She enjoys sailing and racing Hobie 16 boats nationally and internationally.

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