Category: research methods

Don’t Use Abbreviated Personality Measures

New research by Crede, Harms, Niehorster and Gaye-Valentine ((Credé, M., Harms, P., Niehorster, S., & Gaye-Valentine, A. (2012). An evaluation of the consequences of using short measures of the Big Five personality traits. Journal...

Where to Place Demographics on Your Surveys

One of the questions faced by survey designers is presentation order. Does it matter if I put the demographics first? Should I put the cognitive items up front because they require more attention? If...

Graduate Students Who Teach Are More Skilled at Research

According to recent research appearing in Science, the traditional advice to graduate students to minimize their time spent teaching and maximize their time spent on research may ultimately harm the development of their research...