Library: PSYC 100 (Olson Bermudez) FA24: Home

Introduction

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“Quotation marks” keep words together "positive psychology"
AND searches all terms "positive psychology" AND adolescents
Truncation (shift 8 to get the asterisk) searches multiple variations of a word. mindful* - mindful, mindfulness, and mindfully at once

Empirical Articles	Literature Reviews
Based on original research conducted by the authors. Often include tables, charts, and graphs Includes sections like 'Introduction,' 'Methods,' 'Results,' and 'Discussion.' Details how the study was conducted, including data collection and analysis. Provides specific information about participants, experiments, and data.	Summarizes and synthesizes existing research on a specific topic. Keywords like “review,” "systematic" or "meta-analysis" in title or abstract. Mentions combining data from several studies in the abstract. Discusses various studies broadly without specific data or experiments. Focuses on combining data from existing studies rather than new ones. Lacks sections like 'Methods' or 'Results.'

Based on original research conducted by the authors.

Summarizes and synthesizes existing research on a specific topic.

EBSCOhost : All Databases This link opens in a new window
New interface! Cross-search all EBSCO databases (50+); magazines, journals, ebooks, news and primary sources, covering multi-disciplinary topics.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR contains only scholarly content. Use the Journal filter to limit your results to Psychology journals.
OneSearch This link opens in a new window
OneSearch cross-searches many of our library databases at once.