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Psychology

This guide is to help students and faculty access credible resources related to the study of Psychology.

Psychology Best Bet Databases
Use these databases to locate scholarly research articles on psychology topics.

Reading Scholarly Articles

Scholarly Articles Guide
This guide walks users through scholarly articles, from what they are to how to find, read, evaluate, and summarize them.
Reading Scholarly Articles Interactive Tutorial (CUNY)
This interactive tutorial guides users through reading a scholarly article.

Worksheet for reading and evaluating scholarly articles

Use this handout as a way to take notes while reading a scholarly article!

What to look for in each section of an article
This worksheet walks you through what to look for in each section of a scholarly article.

APA Style Research Article Activity
Similar to the other article worksheet, this one comes from the APA.

Article Evaluation Starting Points

Worksheet

WHO

Who is the author?
Who is the audience?
Who funded the research?
Who participated in the research (subjects)?

WHAT

What evidence is presented?
What were the researchers trying to find out?
What steps did they take to reduce errors and bias during the study?

WHEN

When was the research conducted?
When was the study published?
How current does information on this topic need to be?

WHERE

Where can you access this information? (Free? Paid? Library?)
Where was this research conducted?
Where can these results be applied?

WHY

Why does this information exist?
Why did they conduct the study?
Why did this research get published where it did?

HOW

How could this research be useful to you?
How relevant is it to your topic?
How was the study designed?
How does this study reinforce or challenge other research in the same area?