PSY 440: Group Process

Finding Psychology Articles

ARTICLES

The American Psychological Association's (APA) PsycINFO database is the gateway to the international research literature on psychology - 2,000+ journals and other materials going back to the early 1800s.

Recommended article databases for this course:

PsycINFO

Sociological Abstracts

Click here for ADDITIONAL ARTICLE DATABASES (Hint: depending on the particular topic of your research paper, you may find the other databases listed here have more relevant content)

Handbooks, Encyclopedias, and Dictionaries

Encyclopedias: 'Executive summaries' of an area of research getting you up to speed quickly on important research findings, leading researchers, discussions/critiques of theoretical models, and methodologies used. The typical 2-5 page summary is followed by a bibliography leading you to the original articles, books, etc to continue your research.

Recommended encyclopedias for this course:

Encyclopedia of Social Psychology

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Handbooks: Similar to encyclopedias but more focused on a specific area, and each 'executive summary' is chapter length with more in-depth coverage of the field. Handbooks typically have 5-10 pages of citations at the end of the summary - a significant boost to finding the citations you need for your research!

Recommended handbooks for this course:

21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Group Processes

Handbook of Psychology, v. 5 Personality and Social Psychology

Handbook of Social Psychology

Dictionaries: definitions of psychology technical terms usually not available in 'regular' dictionaries.

Recommended dictionaries for this course:

APA Dictionary of Psychology

Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (online)

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