A research methods course aimed at the student as a future consumer of research, not only as a producer of it.

Beth Morling’s Research Methods in Psychology: Evaluating a World of Information, Fourth Edition, is the best-selling text in its field for a specific reason: it treats the ability to judge a claim as the central skill. Examples come from popular media — the headlines, health claims and social science findings students actually encounter — and the book teaches them to interrogate the evidence behind each one.