EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Experimental Research Design
Organizer:
EIASM
Dates:
September 20, 2021 to September 22, 2021
Location:
Brussels, Belgium
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Submission deadline:
July 15, 2021
In this seminar, a highly interactive workshop format is adopted where we discuss and practice each of the following stages in experimentation, from research question to research paper:
Introduction: To experiment or not to experiment?
- Type of questions: causality vs correlations
- Types of effects
- Generating testable –and interesting- hypotheses
Overview and Design: What kind of experiment?
- Between participant designs
- Within participant designs
- Mixed designs
Independent and Dependent Variables: Operationalizations
- Tasks, paradigms and measures
- Varying IV’s and moderators: manipulating states, measuring traits
- Measuring DV’s and mediators; (explicit vs. implicit measures)
Procedure: Conducting experiments in the lab or field:
- Paper-and-pencil studies
- programming experiments in Authorware, Qualtrics, Medialab or E-Prime
- Collecting the data from the lab or field
Analysis and Results
- Importing the data in SPSS
- Testing your hypotheses: Moderation, mediation and beyond (i.e., testing mediated moderation/moderated mediation)
General Discussion:
- From results to publications
- Pitfalls and tips in pursuing a focused research program