Psychology Literature Searching

Assignments are often a sketch of a research project that includes the rudiments of a literature review and better support for introduction, thesis, methodology, and discussion sections.

Goals

● Understand how sources are valued via citation patterns ("invisible colleges") and journal impact factors within a field

● Use filters, such as how to limit searches to empirical research and particular methodologies

● Start to read a research article backwards, from references to context within the article and be able to categorize use of sources with context into Introduction/Background/LiteratureReview, Methodology, Discussion, Support/Differ

● Understand and apply statistical methods

Resources

• PSY 3096 Conducting Psychological Research - Library Resources Exercise https://temple.libwizard.com/f/psy3096

  The goal of this exercise is to help you find ways to identify scholars and researchers who are working in an area

• PSY 3620 Finding an empirical study and journal impact factor - Tutorial https://temple.libwizard.com/f/psy3620_empirical The goal of this exercise is to introduce you to a way of finding empirical studies in journals that have an impact factor using the database Web of Science.
• Research Guide Locate GSS Topics &Variables Uses the General Social Survey to explain a way to search for dependent and independent variables in the dataset

This is a screenshot of how Web of Science assigned how references were used in the article Andrade, J., IJdema, T., Vadasz, N., & May, J. (2022). Tell me all about it: Narrated memories are less emotional than imagined memories. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 174702182211267. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221126720