Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences

Part I - Designing and Conducting Experiments
1. Why Do Experiments?
2. Ethics and Experiments
3. Logical and Philosophical Foundations of Experimental Research in the Social Sciences
4. Training Interviewers and Experimenters
5. Human Participants in Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences
6. Developing Your Experiment
7. Common Problems and Solutions in Experiments

Part II - Experiments Across the Social Sciences
8. Laboratory Experiments in Sociology
9. Experiments on Exchange Relations and Exchange Networks in Sociology
10. Social Dilemma Experiments in Sociology, Psychology, Political Science and Economics
11. Hypotheses, Operationalizations, and Manipulation Checks
12. The Standardized Experimental Situation in Expectation States Research: Notes on History, Uses, and Special Features
13. Experimental Political Science
14. Voting and Agenda Setting in Political Science and Economics
15. Economic Games for Social Scientists
16. Solving Coordination Problems, Experimentally
17. Experimental Studies of Media Stereotyping Effects
18. Judgment and Decision-Making
19. Experiments in Organizational Behavior

Part III - Applied Research and Proposals
20. Conducting Applied Experimental Research
21. Funding Experiments, Writing Proposals