PSYC 101 - General Psychology - Course Guide: Finding Secondary Articles

Tips

Most databases do not allow you to limit your search to secondary only - you will need to search for magazine or news articles on your topic and then look through the search results to find articles that are about your topic and do not describe primary original research.


Search Tips: Magazines & News

Search for your keywords & then use a publication type filter to limit to magazines or news sources.

Examples:

  • pet therapy
  • teens and marijuana
  • children and television
  • domestic violence
  • developmental college students

Search Tips: Other Databases

Try keyword searches in other databases - each database different publications from one another.

Other databases to search:

  • other Psychology Databases - try both Psychology Database and Psychology Collection
  • General research databases:

Example Searches

  • divorce AND effects AND children
  • "video games" AND violence
  • media AND "body image"
  • television AND aggression
  • "religious commitment" and "mental health"
  • athletes AND "eating disorders" AND
  • "internet use" AND effects AND
  • ("parental influence" OR "influence of parents") AND adolescence