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Ms. Selina Nieves collected data from other undergraduates for her study in Psychological Science. Psychological scientists examine behaviors, cognitions, and emotions with the goal of understanding how humans experience the world. Emerging researchers in criminology, communications, and behavioral economics often take a psychological approach in posing and answering research questions.

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Fallon, M. (2016). Primary Data Collection. In: Writing up Quantitative Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Teaching Writing. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-609-5_11

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