Diary Methods for Personality and Social Psychology

Nezlek (psychology, College of William and Mary, Virginia) introduces the motivations and methods for diary-style research for scholars who are interested in conducting research using diary methods, but also supplies other researchers with enough background to make sense of articles describing diary research. He explains how to conceptualize and design a diary study, how to conduct it, how to analyze the data, and how to report the results. Readers expecting academic writing might be disappointed by the informality he uses in conversation with colleagues. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)