How to use this guide
Welcome to the research guide for PSY 32 with Professor Dinh! Within the different tabs of this guide, you'll find resources to help you with your research and tips for improving your research skills. Some of the tabs will open to other Tisch research guides.
If you have any questions about any part of the research process, you can always reach out to Cece, your subject librarian via the box in the right column of this page.
What do I need to find?
Professor Dinh has asked that you find 20 "relevant empirical publications" for your group project/APA research paper. Below is a quick review of what that means in case you aren't familiar or need a reminder from Lab 1. If you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask Cece or another librarian!
Empirical publications
What makes a publication an empirical publication?
An empirical publication is one that presents the findings of original scientific research in a way that allows the research to be replicated. This means that in addition to data and results, there will be a discuss of the researcher's methodology. In Psychology, these publications are most often published in scholarly journals.
How can I tell if the resource I found is a journal article?
This is something that trips everyone up at least once.
- When you are looking at a resource from a database or Google Scholar search, if you encounter volume and issue numbers (often styled as "volume(issue)" in citations in APA style) and page numbers, you are looking at a journal article.
- Often the fact that journal titles often include the word "journal" helps too. :)
- Many library databases often include labels on the resources in the result page that can help you identify journal articles as well.
