Research Methods with a Smile: A Gender Difference Exercise that Teaches Methodology.

Lipsitz, Angela

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ERIC Number: EJ620597

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Publication Date: 2000

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Research Methods with a Smile: A Gender Difference Exercise that Teaches Methodology.

Lipsitz, Angela

Teaching of Psychology, v27 n2 p111-13 Spr 2000

Describes an activity in which the students examine gender differences in smiling, using individual yearbook photos as a data set. Explains that the activity provides a means for reviewing null and alternative testing, operational definitions, interpretation of results, and external validity. Addresses the activity evaluation. (CMK)

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Facial Expressions, Gender Issues, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Photographs, Psychology, Research Methodology

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Language: English

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