Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Publisher
SAGE
Source Publication
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Source ISSN
1745-6916
Original Item ID
DOI: 10.1177/1745691617734863
Abstract
We propose a SAGE model for social psychological research. Encapsulated in our acronym is a proposal to have a synthetic approach to social psychological research, in which qualitative methods are augmentative to quantitative ones, qualitative methods can be generative of new experimental hypotheses, and qualitative methods can capture experiences that evade experimental reductionism. We remind social psychological researchers that psychology was founded in multiple methods of investigation at multiple levels of analysis. We discuss historical examples and our own research as contemporary examples of how a SAGE model can operate in part or as an integrated whole. The implications of our model are discussed.
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Recommended Citation
Power, Séamus A.; Velez, Gabriel; Qadafi, Ahmad; and Tennant, Joseph, "The SAGE Model of Social Psychological Research" (2018). College of Education Faculty Research and Publications. 576.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/edu_fac/576
Comments
Published version Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2018): 359-372. DOI. © 2018 Association for Psychological Science. Used with permission.
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