PSY 133 Introduction to Psychology: Articles

Keyword Tips:

• If searching for sources that are focused on specific aspects of a topic, include a keyword for each concept. 
   
• Be careful not to include too many keywords - in most cases all of the words you enter in the search box must appear in the articles for them to be returned in your search results.

On the other hand, if you receive too many results and they are not focused on what you are looking for, add keywords to narrow the search.

• Use synonyms as appropriate.  For example you might substitute "disorder" for "condition" or "incarceration" for "prison."

Search Tips:

• If searching for a phrase or name, you can include the words in quotations marks to do a phrase search:  "anxiety disorder" will return articles with those two words together, in that order.
   
• You can often search for multiple versions of the same word using truncation. Add the appropriate symbol (often an asterisk *) to the initial letters in the word to return results with each variation: addict* would return articles with the words addict, addicts, addiction, etc.

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