PSYC 101: Introduction to Psychology

Find a research article published in the last 6 months that focuses on human research from a journal published by the American Psychological Association. Follow the instructions below this box to find an article that meets the assignment criteria.

Alternative Assignment (AA) Requirements

• The AA must contain 300-500 words, not including the citation or the header
• The AA must include the following sections:
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion/Limitations

Assignment Help

• Follow the instructions below this box to find an article that meets the assignment criteria.
• Go to Read Psychology Articles for guidelines and instructions on how to read and get the most out of scholarly Psychology journal articles. 
• Go to What Is Peer Review? for a short video describing the peer-review process and why your professors think it's so important.
• Go to Cite in APA Style and click on the Journal Article link. Use the instructions and template to help you put together your APA citation for your article.

PsycARTICLES has more than 153,000 searchable full text articles from nearly 80 scholarly journals published by the American Psychological Assocaition (APA). It also provides exclusive full-text access to journals published by the American Psychological Association.

To find an article for your review, follow these steps:

1. Click this link to go to this PsycARTICLES search. This link pre-limits your search to empirical study articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). The study population group has also been limited to Humans.

• Link not working for you? Follow the troubleshooting steps on the Online Library Access page on this PSYC 101 course research guide to install and login to UM-Dearborn VPN and clear your browser cache.

2. You will see a list of over 70,000 empirical study articles. To limit to articles on a topic of interest, type some search terms into the top box.  Be brief - just one word or phrase, or one word or phrase on each line. For example:

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3. Click Search.  You will be brought to a list of articles matching your criteria.

4. Use the options in the Refine Results navigation bar to the left of your search results to limit your search results to articles published within the last six months:

• Click on the Show More link under the Publication Date slider to open the Search Options pop-up
• Under Publication Date in the Search Options popup, set the Start Month and the Start Year to six months previous to your current month. For example, if it's currently October 2022, then you would set your Start Month to April and your Start Year to 2022.

5.  Look through the resulting articles and select one to review for your paper.  Make sure to confirm that it was published within the last six months!!

If you have any trouble, go back and try different search terms, or add search terms to the empty search boxes to focus the results list.