On this episode, Dr. Mary Ellen Dello Stritto is joined by Dr. Mary Kite. Mary Kite received her B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. from Purdue University. A social psychologist, she is currently Professor of Social Psychology at Ball State University. Strongly committed to psychology education at all levels, she is Past-President of The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP, APA Division 2); she has held a number of other leadership roles for STP. She also chaired the APA Presidential Task Force on Diversity Education Resources and is Past President of the Midwestern Psychological Association. She is a Fellow of APA Divisions 2, 8, 9, 35, & 44 and of the Association for Psychological Science and the Midwestern Psychological Association. She maintains an active research program in the area of stereotyping and prejudice, including co-authoring The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination (3e) with Bernard Whitley, Jr.; Kite and Whitley also co-authored Principles of Research in Behavioral Science (4e). Recognitions include the Charles L. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching in Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation (2014) and a Presidential Citation from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (2011). She was selected as a G. Stanley Hall Lecturer for the American Psychological Association in 2009 and was named a Minority Access National Role Model in 2007.

Segment 1: External Validity [00:00-08:03]

In this first segment, Dr. Kite discusses the importance of external validity in experimental research.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

• Kite, M. E., & Whitley, Jr., B. E.(2016). The psychology of prejudice and discrimination (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Kite, M. E., & Whitley, Jr., B. E. (2018). Principles of research in behavioral science (4th ed.). New York: Routledge.
• Darley, J. M., & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8, 377-383.
• Piliavin, I. M., Rodin, J., & Piliavin, J. A. (1969). Good Samaritanism: An underground phenomenon? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 13, 289-299.
• Ebbinghaus’ research on nonsense syllables

Segment 2: Sampling [08:04-18:12]

In segment two, Dr. Kite discusses sampling issues in quantitative research methods.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

• Arnett, J. (2008). The neglected 95%: Why American psychology needs to become less American. American Psychologist, 67, 602-614.
• Fraley, R. C. (2007). Using the Internet for personality research. In R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, & R. F. Krueger (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology (pp. 130-148). New York: Guilford.
• Henrich, J., Heine, S. J. & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 61-135.
• Henry, P. J. (2008). College sophomores in the laboratory redux: Influences of a narrow data base on social psychology’s view of the nature of prejudice. Psychological Inquiry, 19, 49-71.
• Kraut, R., Olson, J., Banaji, M., Bruckman, A., Cohen, J., & Couper, M. (2004). Psychological research online: Report of Board of Scientific Affairs’ Advisory Group on the conduct of research on the Internet. American Psychologist, 59, 105-117.
• Rosenthal, R., & Rosnow, R. L. (1975). The volunteer subject. New York: Wiley.
• Amazon Mechanical Turk
• Qualitrics

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On this episode, Dr. Mary Ellen Dello Stritto is joined by Patrick Aldrich. Patrick received his bachelor’s degree in Wildlife biology and a minor in Entomology from the University of California, Davis. After graduation, he spent 5 years in various field biology positions, studying a wide array subjects from Bowerbird mating systems in Australia to integrated pest management of ground squirrels in Northern California. He subsequently decided to return to school to pursue a PhD at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studied the spatio-temporal variation of pollination networks in Hawaiian tropical dry forests. Following his graduate work, he was the project director for a project that used spatial analyses to study the random correspondence of fingerprint patterns. Through his work, he has acquired extensive experience in biostatistics. He is currently the data manager and statistician for the Oregon Quality Rating and Improvement System for early childhood and other projects at The Research Institute at Western Oregon University. He continues to apply parametric, non-parametric and likelihood methodologies to analyze various datasets associated with early childhood and educational research.

Segment 1: Parametric vs. Non-parametric statistical tests [00:00-18:52]

In this first segment, Patrick discusses the differences between parametric and non-parametric statistical tests and the best practices for using non-parametric tests.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

• RIA # 91: Dr. Mary Ellen Dello Stritto and Dr. William D. Marelich on the Applied Quantitative Perspective

Segment 2: Using non-parametric tests [18:53-33:31]

In segment two, Patrick discusses how he uses non-parametric statistical tests in his research and how other researchers have used them.

In this segment, the following resources are mentioned:

• Anderson, M. J. (2001). A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis. Austral Ecology 26, 32-46.
• Oregon’s Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS)
• Mann-Whitney U test
• Additional resources on non-parametric statistics:
  • Wasserman, Larry (2007). All of nonparametric statistics. New York: Springer.
  • Conover, W. J. (1999). Practical nonparametric statistics (3rd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  • Siegel, S. & Castellan Jr., N. J. (1989). Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). McGraw-Hill.

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