Hugh Coolican is a retired principal lecturer formerly teaching and researching at Coventry University. He now holds the position of Honorary Teaching Fellow. He is a chartered psychologist and an examiner and scrutineer for the International Baccalaureate.

Preface, Acknowledgements, Part 1. Research methods and ethics, 1. Psychology, science and research, 2. Measuring people - variables, samples and the qualitative critique, 3. Experiments and experimental designs in psychology, 4. Validity in psychological research, 5. Quasi-experiments and non-experiments, 6. Observational methods - watching and being with people, 7. Interview methods - asking people direct questions, 8. Psychological tests and measurement scales, 9. Comparison studies - cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies, 10. Qualitative approaches in psychology, 11. Ethical issues in psychological research, Part 2. Analysing data and writing reports, 12. Analysing qualitative data, 13. Statistics - organising the data, 14. Graphical representation of data, 15. Frequencies and distributions, 16. Significance testing - was it a real effect?, 17. Testing for differences between two samples, 18. Tests for categorical variables and frequency tables, 19. Correlation, 20. Regression methods, 21. Factor analysis, 22. Multi-level analysis - differences between more than two conditions (ANOVA), 23. Multi-factorial ANOVA designs, 24. ANOVA for repeated measures designs, 25. Choosing a significance test for your data, 26. Planning your practical and writing up your report, Appendix, References, Index