A criticism of happiness research is that it often relies on what a person says about his or her own happiness. Calling a self-report measure of happiness "subjective well-being" seems not to help ...

The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter 1999), pp. 1-16 (16 pages) Scientific psychology's positivist roots have led researchers to strive for disinterested objectivity in all phases ...

Vol. 28, No. 3 (105), Determinanten und Muster des Heiratsverhaltens in Europa in der Neuzeit: Ausgewählte Fallstudien / Determinants and Patterns of Marriage Behaviour in Europe in Modern Times: ...

A new study has found that subjective evaluations are comparable with and complementary to objective measures of teacher effectiveness taken from a teacher's first year in the classroom. A study ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. There are a variety of tools that can help researchers analyze large volumes of ...

Subjectivity plays an important, yet dangerous, role in risk management. By its very nature, subjective perspectives are held in the mind of the beholder, and, as a result, are dependent on the ...

I’ve heard professors get frustrated that students can’t tell them what a text means, but the same students can explain what a text means to them. There was a time when people emphasized the objective ...