Psychopathology Spring 2008
		Course Schedule	Syllabus PDF Word	Readings
University of Colorado at Boulder
1 / 29	Introduction to Research Design: Inference and Critical Thinking.
	Hitt, E. (2008). Seeking the skills for a successful career in academia. Science Careers, 499 - 502.
	Nickerson, R. S. (2005). What researchers want from journal editors and reviewers. American Psychologist, 661-662.
	Willcutt, E. G. (2008). The pluses and minuses of a tenure track career.
2 / 5	Writing a grant proposal.
	Bordage, G., & Dawson, B. (2003). Experimental study design and grant writing in eight steps and 28 questions. Medical Education, 37, 376 - 385.
	Calof, A. (1999). Grant-writing amnesia. Current Biology, R869.
	Eissenberg, T. (2003). Teaching successful grant writing to psychology graduate students. Teaching of Psychology, 30, 328 - 330.
	Illes, J. (1999). The strategic grant-seeker: A guide to conceptualizing fundable research in the brain and behavioral sciences (chapter 6 and chapter 9). Lawrence Erlbaum: London.
	NIH Peer Review Guidelines (to be added - don't worry about this one for now)
	NIH F31 proposal guidelines.
	NIH Center for Scientific Review Meeting Procedures
	NSF Guide to Proposals.
	Oetting, E. R. (1986). Ten fatal mistakes in grant writing. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 17, 570 - 573.
	Rasey, J. S. (1999). The art of grant writing. Current Biology, R387.
	Zerhouni, E. (2003). The NIH Roadmap. Science, 302, 63 - 72.
2 / 12	Background and Significance
	Bem, D. J. (1995). Writing a review article for Psychological Bulletin. Psychological Bulletin, 118, 172-177.
	Cacioppo, J. T., Semin, G. R., & Berntson, G. G. (2004). Realism, instrumentalism, and scientific symbiosis: Psychological theory as a search for truth and the discovery of solutions. American Psychologist, 214-223.
	Machado, A., & Silva, F. Toward a richer view of the scientific method: The role of conceptual analysis. American Psychologist, 62, 671 - 681.
	Sternberg, R. J. & Grigorenko E. L. (2001). Unified Psychology. American Psychologist, 56, 1069-1079.
	Wampold, B. E., Davis, B., & Good, R. H. (1990). Hypothesis validity of clinical research. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 58, 360-367.
	Wicker, A. W. (1985). Getting out of our conceptual ruts: Strategies for expanding conceptual frameworks. American Psychologist, 40, 1094-1103.
	Willcutt, E. G., Doyle, A. E., Nigg, J. T., Faraone, S. V., & Pennington, B. F. (2005). A meta-analytic review of the executive function theory of ADHD. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1336-1346.
2 / 19	Topic: Sampling and design issues
	Hartung, C. M., & Widiger, T. A. (1998). Gender differences in the diagnosius of mental disorders: Conclusions and controversies of the DSM-IV. Psychological Bulletin, 123, 260-278.
	Podakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Lee, J., & Podsakoff, N. P. (2003). Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 879-903.
	Rutter, M. (2007). Proceeding from observed correlation to causal inference: the use of natural experiments. {erspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 377 - 394.
	Wainer, H. (1999). The most dangerous profession: A note on nonrandom sampling error. Psychological Methods, 3, 250 - 256.
2 / 26	Measurement and key issues in clinical psychology
	Albright, L., & Malloy, T. E. (2000). Experimental validity: Brunswik, Campbell, Cronbach, and enduring issues. Review of General Psychology, 4, 337-353.
	Helzer, J. E., Kraemer, H. C., & Krueger, R. F. (2006). The feasibility and need for dimensional psychiatric diagnoses. Psychological Medicine, 36, 1671-1680.
	Hunsley, J., & Meyer, G. J. (2003). The incremental validity of psychological testing and assessment: Conceptual, methodological, and statistical issues. Psychological Assessment, 15, 445-455.
	Kraemer, H. C., Measelle, J. R., Ablow, J. C., Essex, M. J., Boyce, W. T., & Kupfer, D. J. (2003). A new approach to integrating data from multiple informants in psychiatric assessment and research: mixing and matching contexts and perspectives. Am.J.Psychiatry, 160, 1566-1577.
	Meyer, G. J., Finn, S. E., Eyde, L. D., Kay, G. G., Moreland, K. L., Dies, R. R., Eisman, E. J., Kubiszyn, T. W., & Reed, G. M. (2001). Psychological testing and psychological assessment: A review of evidence and issues. American Psychologist, 56, 128-165.
	Smith, G. T. (2005). On construct validity: Issues of method and measurement. Psychological Assessment, 17, 395-408.
	Westen, D., & Rosenthal, R. (2005). Improving construct validity: Cronbach, Meehl, and Neurath's ship. Psychological Assessment, 17, 409 - 412.
	Widiger, T. A., & Trull, T. J. (2007). Plate tectonics in the classification of personality disorder: Shifting to a dimensional model. American Psychologist, 62, 71-83.
3 / 4	Treatment outcome research
	Holmbeck, G. N. (1997). Toward terminological, conceptual, and statistical clarity in the study of mediators and moderators: Examples from the child-clinical and pediatric psychology literatures. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 65, 599-610.
	Kraemer, H. C., Frank, E., & Kupfer, D. J. (2006). Moderators of treatment outcomes: clinical, research, and policy importance. Journal of the American Medical Association, 296, 1286-1289.
	Kraemer, H. C., Wilson, G. T., Fairburn, C. G., & Agras, W. S. (2002). Mediators and moderators of treatment effects in randomized clinical trials. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59, 877-883.
	Kraemer, H. C. & Kupfer, D. J. (2006). Size of treatment effects and their importance to clinical research and practice. Biological Psychiatry, 59, 990-996.
3 / 11	Data analysis part I: significance tests, confidence intervals, effect sizes, and other big picture issues.
	Abelson, R. P. (1985). A variance explanation paradox: When a little is a lot. Psychological Bulletin, 97, 129-133.
	Abelson, R. P. (1997). On the surprising longevity of flogged horses: Why there is a case for the significance test. Psychological Science, 6, 12-15.
	Grisson, R.J. (2001). Review of assumptions and problems in the appropriate conceptualization of effect size. Psychological Methods, 6, 135-146.
	Wilcox, R. R. ( 1998). How many discoveries have been lost by ignoring modern statistical methods? American Psychologist, 53, 300-314.
	Wilkinson. L., and the Task Force on Statistical Inference. (1999). Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations. American Psychologist, 54, 594-604.
3 / 18	Oral presentations and feedback on Research Proposals thus far.
4 / 1	Data analysis part II: Overview of analytic approaches and statistical power.
	Cohen, J. (1992). A power primer. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 155-159.
	Maxwell 2004
4 / 8	Research Ethics and Human Subjects
	Fly, B. J., Van Bark, W. P., Weinman, L., Kitchener, K. S., & Lang, P. R. (1997). Ethical transgressions of psychology graduate students: Critical incidents with implications for training. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 28, 492-495.
	Fine, M. A., & Kurdek, L. A. (1993). Reflections on determining authorship credit and authorship order on faculty-student collaborations. American Psychologist, 48(11), 1141-1147.
	Sue, S. (1999). Science, ethnicity, and bias: Where have we gone wrong? American Psychologist, 54, 1070-1077.
	Tebes 1999.
4 / 15	Presentation and Publication of Results
	Anseel 2004
	Kazdin, A. E. (1995). Preparing and evaluating research reports. Psychological Assessment, 7, 228-237.
4 / 22	Panel: seeking an academic career
	Brems 1995