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Some Recent Faculty Publications Burt Thompson and Jaime Johnson (2008). Biased Lineup Instructions and Face Identification From Video Images.. Journal of General Psychology , vol. 135, no. 1, p23-36. Timothy M. Osberg, Danielle Poland, Gina Aguayo and Sharon MacDougall (2008). The Irrational Food Beliefs Scale: Development and Validation. Eating Behaviors, vol. 9, no. 1, p25. Jill M. Norvilitis, Michelle M. Merwin, Timothy M. Osberg, Patricia V. Roehling, Paul Young, and Michele M. Kamas (2006). Personality Factors, Money Attitudes, Financial Knowledge, and Credit-Card Debt in College Students. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, vol. 36, no. 6, p1395. Timothy Osberg (2004). A Business Case for Increasing College Mental Health Services. Behavioral Health Management, vol. 24, no. 5, p. 33. Burt Thompson, Paul Vermette, and Shirley Wisniewski (2004). Ten Cooperative Learning Activities for the Cognitive Psychology Course. Teaching of Psychology, vol. 31, no. 2, p. 134. Donna Fisher-Thompson and Julie A. Peterson (2004). Infant Side Biases and Familiarity-Novelty Preferences During a Serial Paired-Comparison Task. Infancy, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 309.
Peter Butera,
Christopher Briffa, and Emmett Whitaker. (2004)
Devazepide Fails to Reverse the Inhibitory Effect of Interleukin-1ß on Food Intake in Female Rats.
Physiology and Behavior, vol. 82, no. 5, p. 777.
To learn more about the research interests of Psychology Department faculty, visit the department's
web site.
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Niagara University Library Guide to Psychology Research
Contact the Library subject specialist for psychology:
Samantha Gust
Journal articles are the primary way psychology research is disseminated.
Start with the following three databases in the EBSCOhost database system.
The databases listed above cover the psychology literature quite well.
However, there are some other useful databases:
New psychological research is typically
disseminated through journal articles, but books can contain excellent summaries of existing research and can be an important component of your research.
Just remember to look at the publication dates and note that journal articles may give you more recent research.
Use Niagara University's Library Catalog to locate books owned by the Library.
Since PsycINFO (described above) provides reference to books as well as journal articles, you will be able to get a more comprehensive listing
of books that have been written on your topic by searching that database than if you just searched NU's Library Catalog.
Don't worry - if you need a book owned by another library, you can request it. To learn how, jump to the section
called Obtaining Materials NU Library Does Not Own. Remember to start your research early enough, so that you have time to wait for the Library to borrow a copy for you from another library.
Tip: One thing to note when searching for books is that
they are usually not as specific as articles, so construct your search in a more general way than
you would for an article search. So, let's say that you were doing research on the relationship between child abuse and depression in adulthood. Your best bet would be to search for books about child abuse and pick out book titles that may look relevant.
The Library has a number of excellent reference books in the field of psychology.
For example:
These and other titles are located in the Reference Collection on the first floor across from the Reference Desk near call number Ref BF 31.
Tip: Reference books can help you locate keywords to help you perform
better searches. For example, suppose you are doing a paper on subliminal perception. If you take a few minutes to look in
a psychology encyclopedia, you will learn more about the topic and the names of
important researchers from the past. You will also find related keywords like
mere exposure effect, perceptual defense,
and priming.
If you are looking for specific information on the World Wide Web, visit a search engine like
Google and type your keywords in.
If you would like to browse directories of psychology web sites, try these:
Obtaining Materials NU Library Does Not OwnIf you need an article or a book that NU Library does not own, you can make use of Interlibrary Loan to obtain it.
How to Cite Your SourcesFormat your paper and cite your sources according to the:
This manual is the definitive source. The offical manual is not online, though APA does provide some guidance on how to cite web sites and electronic databases:
You may also want to check out some style tips from APA:
Try a Google search of "APA Style" to see other guides. You will find many sites listed that provide examples of APA Style. The first few that are listed tend to be reliable, but you will have to be careful.
Tip: Please talk to your professor if you have questions
about how to cite your sources.
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