Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences by Bruce M King
Cited by more than 300 scholars, Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences continues to provide streamlined resources and easy-to-understand information on statistics in the behavioral sciences and related fields, including psychology, education, human resources management, and sociology.
Bruce M. King received a B.A. in psychology from UCLA in 1969 and a Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Chicago in 1978. He taught for 29 years at the University of New Orleans and is presently in the Department of Psychology at Clemson University. He has taught human sexuality to over 60,000 students. In addition to conducting research in the field of human sexuality, he has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals on the biological basis of feeding behavior and obesity and has coauthored a textbook on statistics (B. M. King, P. J. Rosopa, & E. W. Minium, Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences, 6th ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2011). Dr. King is a Fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society. He shared his thoughts about 30-plus years of teaching human sexuality in an article published in American Journal of Sexuality Education (2012, vol. 7, pp. 181-186). In 2017, Dr. King authored a paper on the prevalence of human sexuality and gender/women's studies courses in U.S. higher education (Health Behavior and Policy Review, vol. 4, pp. 213-223). Pamela Regan is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology with a supporting program in Statistics from the University of Minnesota and her undergraduate degree in English from Williams College. Her research interest is in the area of interpersonal relationships, with an emphasis on passionate love, sexual desire, and mate preference. She has published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews (and has given over 75 professional presentations) on the dynamics of sex, love, and human mating, and she is the author of Close Relationships (Routledge, 2011) and The Mating Game: A Primer on Love, Sex, and Marriage (Sage, 2017) and the coauthor (with Ellen Berscheid) of The Psychology of Interpersonal Relationships (Pearson, 2005) and Lust: What We Know About Human Sexual Desire (Sage, 1999). In 2007, she was honored with the Outstanding Professor Award by her university for excellence in instructional and professional achievement.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780470643822 |
| ISBN 10 | 047064382X |
| Title | Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences |
| Author | Bruce M King |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-10-22 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
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