Psychology 325: Psychology and Culture
Dr. Jane Jegerski

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Scholarly Articles

Read this to learn how to distinguish scholarly journals from other periodicals.

PsycINFO The primary index (no full text) for psychological topics, produced by the American Psychological Association.
Science Direct Provides indexing to its entire library. In addition, there is access to full-text articles in approximately 100 psychology journals from 1999 to the present.
EC Technology user name and password and free registration is required for accessing articles in full-text.
Nearly 300 academic journals in psychology and related fields.
PsycARTICLES Full text articles from APA journals dating back to 1996, covers hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals.

Use I-Share to determine if the library owns the journal in print or microfilm, and check Journals and Magazines Available Online for electronic access to journals. If the article you seek is unavailable from these sources, please request it through our online Interlibrary Loan article request form.

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Social/Culture Journals

For this assignment, each of you must find an article from the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
You may supplement your research with articles from scholarly psychology journals that focus on normal personality issues.The library has electronic access to the full-text or to indexing for many of these personality journals; however, the personality journals are scattered throughout various databases. The following is a list of personality journals and the databases indexing and/or full text can be found.

Social/Culture Psychology Journals
Indexed
Full Text
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
PsycINFO
Must Inter-library Loan (before 09/2001)
or visit Wheaton College

Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

PsycINFO
In Print
Use I-Share
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology PsycINFO
International Journal of Intercultural Relations PsycINFO
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Journal of Social Psychology
PsycINFO

 

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Books

Use I-Share to find books on your topic. Please ask a librarian if you need assistance. Books not available through Illinet may be ordered through our online Interlibrary Loan book request form.

Use Browse Subject Search

Personality
Attribution
Attitude Change
Stereotype (psychology)
Social Perception
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Personality and Children

 

Reference Books

Reference books are great sources to get an introduction to a topic, help define terms or determine where else to look for sources.

Encyclopedia of Human Behavior,
vol. 1-4. R150.3E56
Encyclopedia of Psychology, vol. 1-4. R150.3E561994
Encyclopedia of Psychology, vol. 1-8. R150.3E56
Handbook of Child Psychology. R155.4H236w
Dictionary of Psychology. R150.3C826dp
Handbook of Psychology, vol. 1-12. R150H236
Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, vol 1-4. R150S843

 

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Internet Resources

Research Resources

 

Professional Organizations

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Citing and Research Assistance

Citing Sources Using APA Style

Research Assistance

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This page was created 02/10/2004and ladt updated on 09/01/2006
by Jennifer C. Paliatka, Assistant Librarian, Elmhurst College.