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Dr. Theo Klimstra
Developmental psychology
Identity formation
Social Sciences
Types of Research
• First quantitative approach (questionnaire), but dissatisfied didn’t see why they
think it is important
• Then combine it with qualitative approach (narrative) to show what data actually mean (see
insides)
• Both approaches equally in subjectivity, but in different ways
-quant: researcher decide
-quali: participants decide
• Reliability?
-quali= people forget, then may not true but only interested what people actually think
-quant= people interpretate question in different way, then the meaning of the same answer is
completely different
Interdisciplinarity
• life stories are in culture (research objects are the same in different fields)
Dr. Mark Brandt
Social psychology
Belief systems
Social Sciences
Types of Research
• All kind of belief systems (politic, moral), look how they influence things
• Observe by asking people, sometimes: interpret people belief systems by things they write,
look which people follow (twitter)
• People not willing to explain/sharing things, but normally they are really open and because
anonym, they are open depended from place
• Relate belief system to personal state, job status
• For analysing belief system usage of why questions, surveys, tracking over time,
experiments
• Look at things which predict/cause belief system and other way round
The Role of the Researcher
• Replications are important, do that to understand how that infect us, just do that because it
could be wrong in different conditions
• Random chance give us a consisting results
• Get a sense of how stable these things are and built a theory, And show good theory,
• If a theory cannot survive minor variation, how should it help us in the world because it is full of
them
, • Replication are required because original research is too open for minor variation?
-replication are important no matter the quality of the original because Radom chance always
play a role even in the best conducted studies
-always impossible to know things without replications
-involve paper outline for a good high-quality replication =all suggestion also replies for original
research (important that both has high quality)
The Role of the Theory
• Role of theory in research?
-to make predictions, what is likely to see in a given study
-use different kind of theories, theories (often wrong) but closes thing to make assumptions for
future (make predictions what will be see in data), study show if the theory makes real
prediction in a new domain
-theory shows which variables are important
• Predict behaviour?
-for soft science (social) many variables therefore it is difficult to mathematical models to make
predictions
-soft science are harder than hard science in terms of the effort it takes to take the variables in
place
• People learn from theory and behave like this? Sounds dangerous in political a science, every
theory you propose becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
-yes self-fulfilling prophecy, depend have every learned about your theories, maybe you have a
better chance that a theory I consisted if a never publish it (paradox)
Prof. Dr. Alkeline van Lenning
University College
Gender Studies
Social Sciences
The Role of the Researcher
• normally the participants talk more then expected, they open up when researcher give
them attention
• a lot of responsibility for researcher
• can ask difficult question, but stay away from bring people into crisis (but no rules for that)
• can push but never to far
• see researcher as psychologist, therefore you have to be very clear and explain everything also
when they do not care
• researcher have to protect participants from others and themselves, it is their responsibility
The Role of the Theory
• Need foundation to stand on which theory gives, but still look for more and that is provided by
another researcher (need them
• Many theories about one field and ask question about the topic with them in mind
Interdisciplinarity
• value of interdisciplinarity is high, psychology, sociology, social cultural, history, economics all in
one research. Only one field will not enrich study
• to understand phenomena have to include other perspectives, to be a high value study
,Dr. Federica Angelini
Organization Studies
Social Purpose Organizations
Social Sciences
The Role of the Researcher
• Research about many areas, healthcare and subfields; Subject is mix methods
• We do not know why influence is them
• Qualitative methods follow on quantitative patterns you observed?
-depend, have relationship in mind, tested it, go into field and speak with participants
(deductive)
-other time are open minded with grounded theory and try to abstract slowly relationship
(inductive)
-sometimes mix(abductive) relationship in mind, use experience of participants and explain
relationship and add to those
• Difficult to act as a researcher to make it objective?
-things like constructs are context and time depended, therefore do not seek for objectivity but
for localized understanding,
• Findings are relevant to context and not generalized, how move on with a field?
-collect different findings, and try to understand the role of the context, as researcher more
abstract and on level up
Research and Practice
• Partitioners important?
-yes, to see problems of them, to make bridge to their needs and translate into theoretical
relevant question
-provide theoretical contribution, make everyone happy, development of trust
• Why important to translate need of participants
-ultimately to advance knowledge, deliverer impact (findings can be generalized and
implemented by other organisations to improve things) theoretical contribution = differentiae of
knowledge are advance and larger pool for organisation to improve
• Participants only want answer to question, not interested in theoretical development
• Win-win situation for everyone
• In end translate work to participants, with reports and include special section or elaborate on
that
• Report can be show different conclusion and show frustration for participants, then try to talk to
them and prepare them for that (already clarified that at the beginning)
Interdisciplinarity
• work together healthcare, marketing, sociologist, researcher can be also interdisciplinary
• Connection of macro and maso and tries to connect maso and micro
• Interdisciplinary research is her focus
• challenges develop a understand for other disciplines/knowledge/method, required open mind
need to adjust
• challenges are methods cannot apply in other fields, theoretical development could be less or
applied is more
, Dr. Tim Reeskens
Sociology
European values
Social Sciences
The Role of the Researcher
• Use survey research, analysed data, let data speak to them
• Study of value is free of value itself?
-often data has to be interpretative
-too large extend value free
-research not black and white
Prof. Dr. Jelte Wicherts
Methodology
Meta-analyzing research
Social Sciences
The Role of the Researcher
• Quantitative analysis wit a model
• Honest about patters in the data, than find something
• Many decisions that has to be made in a statistical analyses and very likely that if a researcher
when he didn’t find something they can try something different or look for patters in the data
and search, then you always find something and now doubt that this lowers the evidence (called
significant facing or pe hacking) chance to find something is very high (to many false findings in
the research)
• If researcher is right and by analysing the data in different way that you would inflate the effect
and there is a bias outcome (effect as they published are infected by biases)
• Researchers harm science in honest effort try to fix arrows in research?
-try to understand, problem is the statistical way the use in appropriately and many results
aren’t trustworthy
-idea to solve= have a study seeks to test a partial hypothesis with particular type of data
collection, specific what to do in advance (called preregistration=results more trustworthy
Dr. Jeroen Stekelenburg
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Multisensory integration in the brain
Social Sciences
Types of Research
• Made experiment, change surrounding, make prediction about behaviour, measure
behaviour, relate brain activity
• Individual differences, always error in data(differences), should be low enough to
be objective
• Say things in general, processes are low level and fundamental therefore it so the same
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