Research Methods - Health Psychology

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This course examines the methods used by health psychologists to study the relationships between behavior, health, and illness, including the standard methodologies of description, observation, correlation, quasi-experimental and experimental, as well as some of the methods within the field of epidemiology including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies. Students will design and conduct an empirical investigation on a health and illness-related research question.