Susan Nolan and new coauthor Kelly Goedert offer an introduction to statistics that engages behavioral science students with fascinating stories and real data drawn from contemporary research. The authors support students and professors with market-leading coverage, visual displays of data, helpful mathematical and formula pedagogy, and extensive practice exercises.
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Each chapter emphasizes the core statistical concepts, and then gives students multiple step-by-step examples, including the mathematical calculations, to solidify the important processes in students understanding.
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The Data Ethics feature throughout this textbook introduces students to current research practices and responds to the replication crisis and the open science movement as it relates to all stages of working with data from research design to statistical analyses and reporting of outcomes.
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An entire chapter on visual displays of data highlights the innovative ways data can be represented with graphs and figures.
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A chapter focusing on choosing the right statistical test and reporting statistical results provides students with key information on the considerations to be made when reporting data as behavioral scientists.
New in this Edition- Goedert adds her teaching and research experience, including her new line of research into how we comprehend information presented in graphs, to Nolan’s trustworthy authorship providing a fresh introduction to statistics in a behavioural sciences context.
A new Statistics at Work feature, recurring in every chapter, highlights different people with careers that use statistics in an interesting way, allowing students to see how their statistical skills will be an advantage in their careers.
About the AuthorsSusan Nolan turned to psychology after suffering a career-ending accident on her second workday as a bicycle messenger. Susan graduated from the College of Holy Cross and earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Northwestern University. She studies mental health stigma as well as the role of gender in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Susan is a professor of psychology at Seton Hall University. She served as a representative from the American Psychological Association (APA) to the United Nations and a past president of the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. She was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2015-2016 and in Australia in 2023. She is a fellow of the EPA, the APA, and the Association for Psychological Science. Susan’s academic schedule allows her to pursue her love of travel. She has ridden her bicycle across the United States (despite her earlier crash), swapped apartments to live in Montréal, and explored the Adriatic coast in a 1985 Volkswagen Scirocco. She and her husband, Ivan Bojanic, travel frequently to Bosnia and Herzegovina where they own a small house on the Vrbas River in the city of Banja Luka.
Kelly Goedert’s fascination with psychology – and in particular, how the mind works, began with the simple question: “How is it that we get so good at tying our shoes?” Simple, but profound. What if we never got good at it, or anything else for that matter? Kelly has found that she loves answering questions with numbers. Her idea of a fun vacation is a week-long Bayesian workshop in the Netherlands. (OK, she likes other, more relaxing vacations, too!) Kelly graduated from Western Kentucky University with an undergraduate degree in psychology and an MA in applied experimental psychology. After spending a year working in market research, she returned to school to earn a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Virginia. Kelly’s research has ranged from studying spatial attention in healthy human populations and in people with stroke-induced attentional impairments to investigating how people make causal inferences about events (e.g., “What’s causing my stomach upsets?”). Most recently, she is starting a line of research graph comprehension. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She is a fellow of the Eastern Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Currently, she is professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department at Seton Hall University, where she is also a faculty member in the data analytics program. In her spare time, she enjoys meditating, traveling, and hanging out with her partner and her dogs.
