How to do your own experiments in psychology and education
2b(1). Find review articles
The very, very first thing to do for a literature search in Psychology is to start by looking for review articles, such as those in the Annual Review of Psychology or the Psychological Review.
The Annual Review is a special kind of technical journal that comes out every year: it only publishes Lit Reviews by leading researchers, called “review articles”. Review articles, such as those in the Annual Review of Psychology, are worth their weight in Google stocks (i.e., much more than gold) because much of the information that you need has already been collected for you. These articles can and should be cited, but are sometimes hard to find. The Annual Review of Psychology is available on line as an electronic journal and in book form on the stacks in the library. You can search for articles in it by using PsycINFO and it is also available as a separate database.
Here are step-by-step screen shots to show you how to access the Annual Review of Psychology.
Theses, dissertations, and book chapters by researchers are other excellent, citable sources that cover a lot of research in one place. Look for theses and dissertations in the Proquest Dissertations and Theses Full Text database. Here are step-by-step screen shots to show you how to access this database.
Try this strategy next: Search by journal title.
The Annual Review is a special kind of technical journal that comes out every year: it only publishes Lit Reviews by leading researchers, called “review articles”. Review articles, such as those in the Annual Review of Psychology, are worth their weight in Google stocks (i.e., much more than gold) because much of the information that you need has already been collected for you. These articles can and should be cited, but are sometimes hard to find. The Annual Review of Psychology is available on line as an electronic journal and in book form on the stacks in the library. You can search for articles in it by using PsycINFO and it is also available as a separate database.
Here are step-by-step screen shots to show you how to access the Annual Review of Psychology.
Theses, dissertations, and book chapters by researchers are other excellent, citable sources that cover a lot of research in one place. Look for theses and dissertations in the Proquest Dissertations and Theses Full Text database. Here are step-by-step screen shots to show you how to access this database.
Try this strategy next: Search by journal title.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Dillinger, PhD on -
Add more on theses and dissertations
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Permalink Reply by Omar G. on -
Is there a "Psychological Review only" database like there is for Annual Review, or is just searching in PsychINFO using journal title the best strategy?
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Permalink Reply by Mike Dillinger, PhD on
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Look for a journal with the title "Psychological Review" and you can search inside it.
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