The blueprint: planning and preparing a meta-analytic review -- An introduction to meta-analysis -- Questions that can and questions that cannot be answered through meta analysis -- Search the literature -- The building blocks: coding individual studies -- Coding study characteristics -- Basic effect size computation -- Corrections to effect sizes -- Advanced and unique effect size computation -- Putting the pieces together: combining and comparing effect sizes -- Basic computations: computing mean effect sizes and heterogeneity around this mean -- Explaining heterogeneity among effect sizes: moderator analyses -- Fixed-, random-, and mixed-effects models -- Publication bias -- Multivariate meta-analytic models -- The final product: reporting meta-analytic results -- Writing meta-analytic results