Warren Hunting Smith Library: Psychological Science: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some sample search combinations for Psychological Science:

anxiety AND "sleeping disorder"
"early onset dementia" AND aging
"developmental trauma" OR "attachment disorder"

Scholarly Articles

PsycINFO & PsycArticles
Search PsycINFO & PsycArticles simultaneously.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.
PsycArticles
Full text of journals of the American Psychological Association including: articles, graphics, captions, and tables of contents.
PubMed
Index to scholarly and research biomedical articles back to the 1950's. Note that this resource is primarily for locating citations. Only some of the content is linked to full-text articles.
PubMed offers a very broad and expansive search tool of all articles indexed by the NIH Library. You may need to take some citations and then search in the library's subscription-based content to access full text.
This resource differs from PubMed Central by offering many more citations, but much less linking to full-text articles.
JSTOR
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.

Educational Video

Counseling and Therapy in Video
Footage demonstrating how to work with clients in counseling sessions (a subset of AVON).
Diagnosing Mental Disorders: DSM-5 and ICD-10
Diagnostic videos on common mental health disorders (a subset of AVON).
JoVE
Educational videos in areas such as biology, chemistry, neuroscience, behavior & general laboratory techniques.
Counseling & Social Work in Films on Demand
Guidance & Counseling in Films on Demand
Psychology in Films on Demand

Data and Statistics

ICPSR Social Science Data
Datasets from the social sciences, such as crime stats and voting patterns.
Statista
Statistics, reports, and infographics, related to market data.

Very Short Introductions

The Psychology of Music: a Very Short Introduction by Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
ISBN: 9780190640156

Publication Date: 2018-11-01
Psychoanalysis: a Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick
ISBN: 9780199226818

Publication Date: 2015-12-01

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