This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on social psychology.

Background information sources: (available in the library's reference area)

• Handbook of Emotions REF BF 561 .H35 2008
• The Handbook of Developmental Psychology REF BF713.H364 2003
• The Handbook of Child Psychology REF BF721.H242 2006 v.1-4
• Encyclopedia of Sociology REF HM425.E5 2000 v.1-5
• Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development  REF HM626 .E538 2009 v.1-3
• The Sage Handbook of Social Psychology REF HM1003.S24 2003
• Encyclopedia of Human Relationships REF HM1106 .E53 2009 v.1-3 
• The Persuasion Handbook REF HM1196.P47 2002
• Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: a Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present  REF HM 1231 .C85 2003
• Psychology of Women : a Handbook of Issues and Theories REF HQ1206 .P747 2008
• The Oxford Handbook of Eating Disorders REF RC552 .E18 O94 2010  
• Foundations of Play Therapy REF RJ505.P6 F68 2003

Books:

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers HM250 & HM700-1281 (social psychology):
social psychology, leadership, conformity, prejudice, group behavior, group attitudes, group dynamics, interpersonal attraction

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles:

• PsycARTICLES: Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Approximately 150,000 articles from over 70 journals.
• PsycINFO: Abstracts and full text of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations from peer-reviewed literature in psychology. Journal coverage is from the 1800s to present including international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages.
• Academic Search Premier: multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
• Open Access Journals: directory of scientific and medical journals published online.
• Academic OneFile: contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text.
• LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.

Internet Resources:

Several Internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; also try some of the search terms included under “Books.”

• Social Psychology Network: http://www.socialpsychology.org/ large social psychology database supported by the National Science Foundation
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology: http://www.spsp.org/ large international research organization and includes a “Student’s Corner” section
• Society for Experimental Social Psychology: http://sesp.org/ scientific organization publishes bimonthly journal of original research
• Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library: http://www.vl-site.org/psychology/index.html tracks psychology websites, evaluates for accuracy, and includes full text psych. documents
• Classics in the History of Psychology: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/index.htm: arranged by subject or author provides access to historically important psychology texts

Updated: 3/16/2011