Experiments in Social Psychology

The following resources will help you explore potential experiments in social psychology. 

 Online Databases

  General Reference Center Gold
Search multiple formats: journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and more
 Helpful hint: select advanced search, enter psychology and behavior.
     

Expanded Academic ASAP
Search multiple formats of academic works such as: journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and more Helpful hint: select advanced search, enter psychology and behavior.

 Internet Sites

Similarity and Helping Behavior on the Web: The Impact of the Convergence of Surnames Between Solicitor and Subject in a Request Made Via Email: http://www.marsouin.org/IMG/pdf/Gueguen_Pichot_LeDreff_3-2005.pdf#search=%22%22social%20psychology%22%2C%20%22helping%20behavior%22%2C%20experiments%22

Social Psychology Network: http://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm#otherlistings

The Effects of Similarity on Altruism and it's Relationship to Predicted Versus Actual Helping Behavior: http://www.iusb.edu/~journal/2000/lichtenbarger.html

The Effects on Mood and Sex on Helping Behavior in a Non-Violent Situation: http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/324.asp

 

If you do not find what you're looking for in the above resources, try the search tips listed below.
 

 Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.google.com or http://scholar.google.com/, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "social psychology", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites on social psychology as opposed to all of the sites containing the word social plus all of the sites containing the word pscychology.
     

  4. If you would like to search for something specific about social psychology, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to find out about experiments dealing with behavior,  I would enter the following:

    "social psychology", behavior, experiments

    Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     

  5. Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:

     

  6. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on an Internet source, 
    you must include it in your bibliography.

Remember:  YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USED to gather information on your 
Works Cited (Bibliography) page.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.
 


 

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