Handbook of Experimental Methods in the Social Sciences

Edited by Alex Rees-Jones

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible guide to experimental methodology and practice. Leading researchers present their expertise, detailing common experimental measurements and providing advice on how to approach experimentation and overcome its many obstacles.

Keywords: Experimental Social Science, Experimental Methodology, Experimental Design, Elicitation Techniques, Best Practices For Experiments, Experimental Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035312627
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Experiments: why, how, and a user's guide for producers as well as consumers

Muriel Niederle

Ch 2 How to run a field experiment

Anya Samek and Sally Sadoff

Ch 3 Complexity and its measurement

Ryan Oprea

Ch 4 Eliciting beliefs

Guy Ishai

Ch 5 Eliciting time preferences

Michael A. Kuhn

Ch 6 Measuring confidence

Sophia Li and Don A. Moore

Ch 7 Measuring discrimination with experiments

Ashley Litwin and Corinne Low

Ch 8 Measuring (dis)honesty

Marta Serra-Garcia

Ch 9 Measuring self-reported well-being

Ori Heffetz and Yehonatan Caspi

Ch 10 Measuring social preferences

Michalis Drouvelis

Ch 11 Measuring the physiological choice process

Ian Krajbich, Dino Levy and Ryan Webb

Ch 12 Conducting experiments with young populations: children are not little adults

Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo

Ch 13 Conducting real effort experiments

David Hagmann and Luxi Shen

Ch 14 Doing experimental economics in developing countries

Syon Bhanot and Aishwarya Deshpande

Ch 15 How serious are experimenter demand effects? Evidence and mitigation strategies

Jonathan de Quidt, Lise Vesterlund and Alistair J. Wilson

Ch 16 Experiments in political science

Damien Bol

Ch 17 Experiments on social media

Guy Aridor, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Ro’ee Levy and Lena Song

Ch 18 How to do replicable research

Anna Dreber and Magnus Johannesson

Ch 19 Investigating risk preferences using experiments

Ted O’Donoghue and Jason Somerville

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