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This up-to-date collection begins with an account and analysis of the role of psychologists in prisons in relation to research.Looks at the results of evidence based psychological approaches to working with prisonersFirst half of the book has its primary focus on psychological evaluation researchIncludes chapters on psychological research on suicide, bullying, life sentenced prisoners and staff sickness

Ethical Problems in Psychological Research focuses on the relationship between experimenter and subject within investigations in the biomedical and social sciences. The book discusses on the potential conflict between methodological and ethical norms; ethical problems of psychological experiments; and the ethical and methodological problems of alternatives to laboratory experiments. The text also describes the codification of ethical principles for psychological research.

Intro -- ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON HEALTH BEHAVIOR -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE IN TRAIT RUMINATION AND HEALTH -- ABSTRACT -- RUMINATION: A COMPLEX AND MULTIFACETED PROCESS -- RUMINATION: THEORIES AND UNDERLYING MECHANISMS -- MEASURING RUMINATION -- RUMINATION AND EMOTION REGULATION -- RUMINATION AND MENTAL HEALTH -- BROODING, REFLECTION AND MENTAL HEALTH -- INTERVENTION PROGRAMS TO REDUCE RUMINATION -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: EXPRESSIVE WRITING AND HEALTH -- ABSTRACT -- UNDERLYING PROCESSES OF EXPRESSIVE WRITING -- EXPRESSIVE WRITING AND EMOTION REGULATION -- EXPRESSIVE WRITING, HEALTH AND WELLBEING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIOUR IN PATIENTS WITH HYPOCHONDRIASIS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. THE CLINICAL PICTURE OF HYPOCHONDRIASIS -- 2. THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO HYPOCHONDRIASIS -- 3. HEALTH-RELATED BEHAVIOUR IN PATIENTS WITH HYPOCHONDRIASIS -- 4. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HEALTH BEHAVIOUR OF PATIENTS WITH HYPOCHONDRIASIS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: EXPERIMENTAL, OBSERVATIONAL DESIGN AS AN IMPORTANT METHOD TO IDENTIFY THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF THE IMPACT OF PEER INFLUENCE ON SMOKING -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: SCHEMA THERAPY: AN INNOVATIVE EMOTION-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY MODEL -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Contents: Part 1. Introduction and historical overview – Norbert Schwarz, Seymour Sudman: Introduction (3-4); Howard Schuman: Context effects: state of the past/ state of the art (5-20). Part II. Question-order effects in surveys – Fritz Strack: "Order effects" in survey research: activation and information functions of preceding questions (23-34); Roger Tourangeau: Context effects on responses to attitude questions: attitudes as memory structures (35-48); Jack M. Feldman: Constructive processes as a source of context effects in survey research: explorations in self-generated validity (49-62); Barbara A. Bickart: Question-order effects and brand evaluations: the moderating role of consumer knowledge (63-80); Leonard L. Martin, Thomas F. Harlow: Basking and brooding: the motivating effects of filter questions in surveys (81-96); Dancker D.L. Daamen, Steven E. de Bie: Serial context effects in survey interviews (97-114); John Tarnai, Don A. Dillman: Questionnaire context as a source of response differences in mail and telephone surveys (115-130); Jaak B. Billiet, Lina Waterplas, Geert Loosveldt: Context effects as substantive data in social surveys (131-148); George F. Bishop: Qualitative analysis of question-order and context effects: the use of think-aloud responses (149-162); Tom W. Smith: Thoughts on the nature of context effects (163-184). Part III. Response-order effects in surveys - Norbert Schwarz, Hans J. Hippler, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann: A cognitive model of response-order effects in survey measurement (187-202); Jon A. Krosnick: The impact of cognitive sophistication and attitude importance on response-order and question-order effects (203-218). Part IV. Order effects in psychological testing - Eric S. Knowles, Michelle C. Coker, Deborah A. Cook, Steven R. Diercks, Mary E. Irwin, Edward J. Lundeen, John W. Neville, Mark E. Sibicky: Order effects within personality measures (221-236); Gerald R. Salancik, Julianne F. Brand: Context influences on the meaning of work (237-248); Abigail T. Panter, Jeffrey S. Tanaka, Tracy R. Wellens: The psychometrics of order effects (249-264). Part V. Social judgment – Galen V. Bodenhausen: Information-processing functions of generic knowledge structures and their role in context effects in social judgment (267-278); Linda M. Maxey, Anthony J. Sanford: Context effects and the communicative functions of quantifiers: implications for their use in attitude research (279-296); Thomas M. Ostrom, Andrew L. Betz, John J. Skowronski: Cognitive representation of bipolar survey items (297-311). Part VI. Summary - Norman M. Bradburn: What have we learned? (315-323).