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PROF. B. COLLINS
Social Psychology - Research Methods
PROF. COLLINS is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at UCLA. His numerous publications cover social psychology, applied social psychology, research methods, attitude change, persuasion, and social influence, Dissonance Theory, the design and evaluation of questionnaire measures, interviewing, health education, and community-based participatory research. These publications use a wide variety of statistical analyses. He served as Director of Research at Healthy African American Families II. He has taught at Yale and Stanford and was a Prof. of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He has written a textbooks on social psychology and research methods. He coauthored a book on Theories of Attitude Change. He has served and chair and vice chair of the human subjects protection committee (IRB). He has been an advisor for over a hundred undergraduate honors theses and MA and PhD theses. He has served as a social-psychology expert witness in court cases. His BS and MA were in communication at Northwestern University. He has focuses on one-on-one mentoring on activities ranging from: (a) the choice of a research topic that is relevant to the interests and skills of a particular student, (b) the identification of the most relevant theories, (c) the development of hypotheses, (d) research design, (e) the organization of research writing, (f) methods sections, (g) data analyses and the presentation results, and (h) the interpretation of results.
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Research Interests
- Applied Social Psychology
- Close Relationships
- Communication
- Culture/Ethnicity
- Ethics/Morality
- Health
- Interpersonal Processes
- Person Perception
- Persuasion/Social Influence
- Prejudice/Stereotyping
- Research Methods/Assessment
- Self/Identity
Services for psychology graduate students and researchers:
- Provide you with customized tutoring in all aspects of a research project that is tailored to your interests and skills.
- Help you select and formulate solid research questions (hypotheses).
- Help you learn to use literature searches and reference tools.
- Identify a strategy and keywords for your literature search.
- Help identify the most relevant theories.
- Provide theoretical guidance on content.
- Help identify the most relevant prior research.
- Assist with literature review searches.
- Provide recommendations regarding structure, organization, arguments, and ideas.
- Suggest research designs.
- Help with writing the methods section.
- Suggest specific statistical tests of your hypotheses.
- Tutor you in the use of statistical packages to conduct your statistical analyses.
- Conduct statistical analyses and help prepare tables and graphs.
- Tutor you in writing your conclusions in clear English (within ethical boundaries).
- Help with the interpretation of results.
- Revise for clarity, precision, and conciseness.
- Incorporate input from degree-granting institution’s advisors/mentors and committee members.
- Prepare you for your oral defense and/or comprehensive exams.
TOM DAVIDSON
Organizational/Industrial Psychology
Dr. Tom Davidson has been an advisor on more than a hundred research committees for students who have achieved their doctorate or master's degree. He specializes in students who are near the beginning of their thesis or dissertation work. He will help you choose a topic, select a quantitative or qualitative methodology, and develop an effective research design. Dr. Davidson has a great deal of research experience, including hundreds of research studies for private industry. He can quickly hone in on key constructs and measures, practical methodological designs and clear statistical tests for your thesis or dissertation study. And he keeps students focused on doing only what is necessary to graduate with their master's or doctorate degree as soon as possible. Dr. Davidson takes the confusion out of thesis and dissertation development, helping students save time and money by making swift progress.
"Dr. Davidson was not only helpful but crucial in my Ph.D. journey. He inspired me to identify a meaningful topic, control my topic scope, and formulate workable hypotheses. He is particularly insightful in quantifying concepts in abstract domains like leadership, and effectively drives students to operationalize variables. While completing a dissertation is a painfully long process, Dr. Davidson patiently encouraged his students to go forward each day, and always with a sense of humor. He is always available to respond to students' questions and requests, and never procrastinates. I will forever be grateful to Dr. Davidson , who has become my role model when supervising other students." - Paul K. Sin
"Dr. Davidson had a profound impact on my dissertation experience and was instrumental to my successful completion. Thank you so very much Dr. Davidson , for being a great thinker and scholar, demonstrating tremendous patience, and providing reflective and generative guidance." - Don Pomraning
"I would like to thank Dr. Davidson for his patience, constructive feedback, guidance, encouragement and most of all for his ability to treat others as scholars in our own rights." - Melissa Minardo
"Dr. Davidson encouraged me consistently and brought clarity to a very scary process. He helped me define and simplify my research ideas into a manageable project, while maintaining the meaning of the study. I am so thankful for his approach." - Brigit Olsen
TOM GRANOFF
Social Science Statistics - Data Analysis - psychology
Scope: multivariate statistics, behavioral sciences, data processing, marketing research, forensic psychology, research design, SPSS, survey research, medical research, web-based surveys, quantitative methods, focus groups, interviewing techniques, qualitative methods, correlational analysis, research methodologist, ANOVA, MANOVA, logistic regression, multiple regression, discriminant function analysis, factor analysis, Method's Chapter editing, Final Oral examination preparation.
TOM GRANOFF, Ph.D., has spent almost 30 years providing research methodological and data analysis support in academic settings using SPSS. Tom typically works on numerous scholarly projects each year. Tom assists students who are obtaining advanced degrees in psychology, counseling, education, public health, leadership, business, marketing, sociology, management, and nursing. He also worked for many years in marketing research and data processing positions in the health care industry. A popular instructor, Dr. Granoff teaches graduate-level research methods and statistics courses for Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University, and California State University, Long Beach, all in Los Angeles. He prides himself in being able to explain most multivariate statistical tests in simple English without using complex mathematical formulas. Tom educates his clients so that they car take full responsibility for the contents of their study, and assists them in preparing for their oral defense. His formal education includes a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology plus Master's degrees in Theology and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
For research proposals (Methods Chapter), Tom provides technical assistance in the following ways: helping set up the research design, reviewing surveys, assistance in selecting appropriate statistical tests, helping determine needed sample sizes (power analyses), helping develop operational definitions; developing hypotheses/research questions; measuring constructs; and tutoring students in the understanding and usage of appropriate research and statistical terminology. Tom often edits the Methodology Chapter to ensure that the purpose statement, research questions, the hypotheses, the data gathered, and the statistical approaches are in accord.
For data analysis projects (Results Chapter), Tom’s provides ethical assistance that does not conflict with your university’s plagiarism and academic integrity policies. Tom will first have a brief free consultation with the student’s thesis/dissertation advisor and gain the appropriate permission before any formal work is conducted. After securing written permission, Tom can provide any of the following services: create suitable SPSS files, help prepare the dataset for analysis, run relevant statistical tests or teach the student how to do it themselves, provide tutoring in the interpretation of SPSS output, and provide generic examples of how SPSS output could be transformed into APA style tables and narrative. After the student has the draft of the Results Chapter, Tom can then provide technical editing to ensure the findings are presented in a clear, accurate and compelling manner.
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