Are students adequately trained to defend their research?

I've come across several students who either do not know why they take up a particular project area, or once they have, do not know what its worth. Defending occurs not just during thesis...

02 March 2014 8,215 19 View

Is there an association between the number of women in a profession and the economic worth/value of that profession?

This was simply an observation, but I'd like to know if any research has been done in this area. Professions like teaching, psychotherapy or nursing are dominated by women - both in employee and...

11 December 2013 4,449 7 View

What are the psychophysiological correlates of creativity?

I am interested in understanding creativity from the point of view of psychophysics. Apart from the EEG, have other psychophysiological methods been applied to study creativity? Here, creativity...

10 November 2013 711 30 View

How important is context?

Context, may it be physical, linguistic or socio-cultural, permeates human behaviour. How important is context while conducting research in the social sciences, particularly psychology? And if it...

10 November 2013 7,025 18 View

How important is it to consider a journal's Impact Factor while seeking to publish?

Journal Citation Reports 2012 was recently published with an updated Journal's Impact Factors. Is Impact Factor a valid measure of a Journal's outreach, and if so, what is a "good" Impact Factor...

05 June 2013 6,880 7 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

Does anyone have a sequence for the human CD34 promoter?

I'm looking for the human CD34 promoter sequence to engineer into a vector construct. Can anyone recommend a good source for this sequence? Thanks very much, Laura

25 February 2021 8,205 1 View

Looking for genomic DNA extraction kits from mouse tissue (centrifuge-based, not spin-column)?

Hello. I am looking to extract genomic DNA from mouse brain and lungs and I need a kit that is not spin-column based because I need to scale up the solution amounts for 400mg tissue (most cap at...

25 February 2021 155 2 View

Am i able to conduct a factor analysis on each of my subscales, as opposed to the whole scale?

My psychometric scale contains 38 items in total, with 4 subscales (20, 6, 6 & 6 items respectively? Can i run a factor analysis for each subscale rather than the scale as a whole for the...

24 February 2021 8,856 8 View

What are alternatives to factor analysis for a small sample?

My sample size is too small to conduct a factor analysis. I created my own psychometric scale for measuring Effectiveness of Support, which contains 38 items (4 sub-scales) Im really struggling...

23 February 2021 9,287 12 View

How do I collect online measures in a same-different task?

The same-different task requires to subjects to indicate whether a pair of stimuli seen or heard are the same (say AA or BB) or different (say AB or BA). Researchers often collect offline measures...

20 February 2021 9,226 2 View

How many indicators do I need to represent a latent construct?

Hi folks! We did a large survey and planned to use 3 indicators to represent a latent construct (Sense of Place/SoP) in a latent regression model (structural equation modeling). However, one of...

15 February 2021 7,705 3 View

How do you calculate a discrimination index for polytomous data?

Hello, I'm currently running a PCA on a polytomous data set (5 point Likert). I want to create a discrimination index to narrow down my items before running the PCA. After looking around, I'm...

13 February 2021 3,517 2 View

How do I understand the relationship of age and the answers on Likert scale?

Hi people, I want to see the relationship between 4 age categories and Likert scale questions on SPSS, which method or test is the best to find that out? To be more exact, I want to measure if the...

10 February 2021 2,241 3 View

Where can I find the Affiliate Stigma Scale developed by Mak and Cheung?

Need the scale for a dissertation. Would be better if I could get it for free since my work is not funded. I need the English version of this scale.

09 February 2021 4,022 3 View