Social experiments: some developments over the past fifteen years

Recent interest in social experimentation has focused on changes in the dominant theory, preference for randomized experiments rather than quasi-experiments, improvements in design of quasi-experiments and concerns related to generalization of causal relationships. Theoretical issues concern theorie...

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Published in:Annual review of psychology 1994, Vol.45 (1), p.545-580
Main Authors: COOK, T. D, SHADISH, W. R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Experimental design
Experiments
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human experimentation in psychology
Human psychological experimentation
Methodology. Experimentation
Methods
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics. Statistics. Methodology
Research design
Research Methodology
Social psychology
Social research
Social Science Research
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Summary:Recent interest in social experimentation has focused on changes in the dominant theory, preference for randomized experiments rather than quasi-experiments, improvements in design of quasi-experiments and concerns related to generalization of causal relationships. Theoretical issues concern theories of causation and categorization, internal and external validity, priorities of validity types, treatment implementation and ruling out biases. Issues related to generalization concern random sampling, proximal similarity, replication, meta-analysis and causal explanation.
ISSN:0066-4308
1545-2085
DOI:10.1146/annurev.ps.45.020194.002553