Research Articles on Psychology

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I need a web-site to find articles in Psychology containing,Author, Date,Hypothesis,Purpose of Study, Subjects,(age, gender,Ethnict,Social Status, Demographics, Where was Study done,Where did Subjects live,How were Subjects selected, independent and depentent variables, was Study Control group. Although I have been to Vanderbilt Lib. Belmont Lib. and three more, searched the web for days, this study must be basic in its terms and length. At this point I will take any subject matter that I can get, however, I am interested in Psychology of faith and general well being. Social-anti behavior. Can you please "HELP"? Regards and Blessings, Robin

-- Robin A. Christianson (backreader@home.com), March 29, 2001

Answers

I don't think you'regoing to find a single site to give you all this information. Indeed, much of it (ethincity, SES, andother demographics) were probably not recorded by the original researchers. Your best bet is, I think, the American Psychological Association's PsychINFO. You local university library is almost certainly subscribed to it. It gives the publication information for most every (but not absolutely every) psychlogical journal article published back to the 1880s. It has citations of many chapters and books too, but coverage is not quite as good here as for journal articles. It also provides short abstracts of all these documents, from which you might be able to glean the other information you require.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), March 29, 2001.

Hi Robin, don't worry, the info is out there you just havent' hit upon the right search engine yet. You need to log on to Psychinfo or one of the other psychology specific searches. You won't find them on the internet because they aren't free, but a college library should have them in the reference section, and so you need a reference librarian in a college library. Once you find yourself inside one of these data bases your project will be half done. Best, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), March 29, 2001.

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