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Library Assignment Instructions: Graded for accuracy! – 5 points – Summer 2022

NOTE: Make sure to upload your answers to the questions on this sheet in Canvas!

Some general rules in doing library research include:

  1. Library content is continually changing, similar to Google. A Google search one day gets a certain number of results and the next day the number changes. Libraries also update and improve access to their content, so what works today may not necessarily work next year. Also, procedures may differ slightly depending on how you access the library’s computer databases (e.g. a connection from home versus a dedicated terminal in the library).
  2. There are often several ways of locating the same information. This assignment directs you to several resources in order to familiarize you with their existence, but it is not the only way! If you find yourself getting stuck when using one resource—and you are able to locate the information a different way—feel free to do so.
  3. This assignment will not cover all of the useful library resources available to you, and the undergraduate psychology librarians will show you an even broader array of options. For now, go to the FIU library website at http://library.fiu.edu/ to get started.

STEP 1: PsycINFO:

PsycINFO is the #1 database in psychology.  It is an online source for finding articles in psychology journals. Go to the library website, library.fiu.edu and click Research: Start. You can find PsycInfo several ways including:

  1. Go to library.fiu.edu and click Research: Start. Click Subject Resources. Click PSY3213/3215: Research Methods.
  2. Go directly to the Library Research Guide created for this course called PSY3213/3215: Research Methods at fiu.edu/psy3215.
  3. Go to library.fiu.edu and click Research: Start. Click Subject Resources, followed by Psychology. Click the Databases tab on the Psychology page.
  4. Click A-Z Databases from the Research: Start page. Find PsycInfo (this is what I usually do!)

There are several options in PsycINFO. You can do a Basic Search, an Advanced Search, or browse on your own. Using Advanced Search will allow you to limit your search to articles that are the most relevant, provided you have a keyword, author name, journal title, or article title already in mind.

There are numerous ways to limit your search results including:

  1. to a specific range of years;
  2. to specific languages, methodologies, age ranges, etc.
  3. to peer reviewed articles (if you want primary sources only which are required for Paper 1)

You can also search PsycINFO for multiple items, which may include a combination of an author’s name, journal title, or a keyword in the title or abstract of a specific article, etc.

For example, to search for articles by a specific author, type in the author’s last name followed by the first name (and middle initial, if you know it) in the first empty search box. In the drop-down box to the right of the search boxes, select AUTHOR(AU). For example, if you type in Loftus Elizabeth and choose author, your search will find at least 422 articles that include her name as an author (Wow, right! What a prolific writer!)

You can follow a similar procedure to locate articles by subject, title, or keyword. For example, try using the word “eyewitness” as a search term in the document title. When I did this a month ago, the results returned at least 1711 publications (which might have gone up since I last looked!). That is WAAAAY too many to look through! Of course, if you do only peer reviewed article, this drops a lot (but still has 1257 articles with eyewitness in the title!).

When you get such a large number of results, you will usually want to narrow down your search. You can do this by entering different search terms, or you can do this by combining results from searches you have already completed. Every time you do a search, the results are saved in your “recent searches.” You can combine articles in the search history to narrow down your list of articles to your specifications.

Let’s say you want a list of all articles authored by Elizabeth Loftus with the word “eyewitness” in the title. You have already run searches on Loftus Elizabeth as an author and eyewitness in the title. Click on the Recent Searches link at the top of the page and you will see those previous searches listed. In the Combine Searches box, type “search #1 and search #2” and hit enter. Elizabeth Loftus’s publications regarding eyewitnesses will be shown. When I did this, it came up with only 45 articles including Loftus as an author and eyewitness as a word in the title. If I look at Loftus, Eyewitness, and Peer Reviewed, this search drops to 28. This is MUCH more manageable.

 

 

Question One (.5 points): Using PsycINFO, locate an article authored by Danielle Law and her colleagues focusing on the Cyberbullying. Use “Law” as an author term and at least two of the following as document title terms: “cyberbullies”, “reactive”, or “proactive” (You’ll need to “Add a row” to allow for a third term). Select the correct, full APA-style reference* for this article on your assignment sheet. Note that the DOI is needed for APA references, so make sure to include it!

 

 

A

Law, Danielle M., Shapka, Jennifer D., Domene, Jose F., & Gagné, Monique H. (2012). Are cyberbullies really bullies? An investigation of reactive and proactive online aggression. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 664-672. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.013

B

Law, D. M., Shapka, J. D., Domene, J. F., & Gagné, M. H. (2012). Are cyberbullies really bullies?  An investigation of reactive and proactive online aggression. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 664-672. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.013

C

Law, D. M., Shapka, J. D., Domene, J. F., & Gagné, M. H. (2012). Are cyberbullies really bullies? An investigation of reactive and proactive online aggression. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 664-672. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.013

D

Law, D. M., Shapka, J. D., Domene, J. F., & Gagné, M. H. (2012). Are Cyberbullies Really Bullies? An Investigation of Reactive and Proactive Online Aggression. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 664-672. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2011.11.013

 

STEP 2: Full-Text Databases

Many libraries now have “full text” electronic journals. However, not all journals appear in full-text, including some that you will find in PsycINFO. Though PsycINFO is useful, there are other ways to find full-text online articles. If you search PsycINFO and do not find a link to full-text, click FIND IT @FIU to search across 1200+ databases for the full-text.  Also, you can enter the journal name into the Library Catalog, the E-Journals search box or the Search Everywhere box on the library homepage, and you may find links to journals where you can find full-text documents.

Sometimes you’ll need to access library resources from home as well, which might mean logging into the FIU library (and some other services like Open Athens and Alma). Most of these services are accessible through the FIU library login pages.

Also, on the Psychology Resources page (library.fiu.edu/allpsychology), you will find PsycARTICLES. You can search within specific journals by clicking the Browse tab and selecting the journal title to search within the specific journal. If you know more specifically what you are looking for, you can use the search boxes to search for keywords or the author’s name.

For Questions Two, Three, and Four below, I want YOU to find a few different full-text articles using PsycInfo.

Question Two (.5 points). Recall the Law et al. (2012) article from Question One above (“Are cyberbullies really bullies? An investigation of reactive and proactive online aggression”). In the literature review on page 664 of that paper (in Section 1.1. What is online aggression?), the authors define cyberbullying by quoting a definition from “Belsey (2005, p. 8).” Which of the following is that definition?

 

    1. A proactive behavior designed to accomplish a single purpose that is presumably a one-time event
    2. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to denounce deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to hurt others
    3. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others
    4. A reactive behavior that is the response to provocation (such as interpreting someone’s failing to saw “hello” as an intentional snub leading to a retaliatory snub)
    5. None of the above

 

  1. Question Three (.5 points). In 2021, Chisa Ota and Tamami Nakano published an article with the title “Neural correlates of beauty retouching to enhance attractiveness of self-depictions in women” in the journal “Social Neuroscience”. Choose the correct APA style reference for this article from those listed below.

 

 

A

Ota, C., & Nakano, T.. Neural correlates of beauty retouching to enhance attractiveness of self-depictions in women. Social Neuroscience, pages 121-133, vol 16(2), (2021). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2021.1873178

B

Ota, Chisa., & Nakano, Tamami. (2021). Neural correlates of beauty retouching to enhance attractiveness of self-depictions in women. Social Neuroscience, 16(2), 121-133. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2021.1873178

C

Ota, C., & Nakano, T. (2021). Neural Correlates of Beauty Retouching to Enhance Attractiveness of Self-Depictions in Women. Social Neuroscience, 16(2), 121-133. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2021.1873178

D

Ota, C., & Nakano, T. (2021). Neural correlates of beauty retouching to enhance attractiveness of self-depictions in women. Social Neuroscience, 16(2), 121-133. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2021.1873178

 

Question Four (.5 points). Consider the same journal article from Question Three above (“Neural correlates of beauty retouching to enhance attractiveness of self-depictions in women.”). On page 123, the authors provided some pictures (Under Figure 1a) that they used as stimulus materials in their study. The study essentially had two different independent variables. One of them was “self vs. other.” What was their other independent variable as depicted in Figure 1a and how many levels did this independent variable have?

  1. Beauty Retouching (Two levels): Original and Mild
  2. Beauty Retouching (Three levels): Original, Mild, and Extreme
  3. Filtered Photos (Two levels): Mild and Extreme
  4. Time to view Photos (Three levels): 4-6 seconds, 3 seconds, 0.5 seconds
  5. Attractiveness Ratings (Eight levels): Ranges from 1 = unattractive to 8 = very attractive

Question Five (.5 points): Using PsycINFO, find the article in which Minsun Lee and Hyun-Hwa Lee (2019) published their article titled “Can virtual makeovers using photo editing applications moderate negative media influences on SNS users’ body satisfaction?” In the literature review (on page 232 under the header “Photo Editing Behavior and Self-Presentation on SNSs”), the authors note that people who use social networking site are often already familiar with altered photos. The authors list several items that represent this familiarity in the first sentence of that section. Which of the following is NOT one of the items the authors mention?

  1. Retouching
  2. Photo manipulation
  3. Image editing
  4. “and so forth”
  5. The authors actually mention all of the above

STEP 3:

Question Six (.5 points): I want YOU to locate one article relevant to your Paper I: Study One Literature Review that is different from those listed in the questions above and different than any of those posted on Canvas for your Paper I: Study One Literature Review. This article must be a primary source (Peer reviewed), reporting on original, empirical research (I don’t want reviews of the field or books at this time). You might want to find articles that look interesting to you by entering key words describing the topic of your study one (e.g., Filters, Photoshop, Cyberbullying, Person Perception, Social Media, Body Satisfaction, Body Shaming, etc. There are tons of keywords for this topic – note that some of the articles in PsycInfo even list the keywords that they used for their paper). Using APA format, enter the reference on your answer sheet (Since Canvas may not allow for proper indenting or spacing, we will not mark off for that, but make sure the rest of your citation is in APA format):

 

Question Seven (.5 points): Now write a short summary of the article from question six and give me that summary in Canvas.

 

Question Eight (.5 points): Use the FIU library find a reference to a book that covers the same topic (or a closely related one) as the article you find in question six. In Canvas, give me this reference in APA format (again, you can ignore spacing issues if Canvas doesn’t allow for perfect APA spacing, but all other APA style elements should be present. Make sure you have a publisher, which is indicative of book references.

 

Question Nine (.5 points): Tell me if FIU owns the title: Yes or no. Tell me in Canvas

 

Question Ten (.5 points): If FIU does own the title from questions nine and ten, give me its call number or the ISBN (for an electronic book). If FIU does not own the title, tell me how you would go about getting your hands on the book to borrow using your student resources. Give me your responses in Canvas. Note that books will rarely be in pdf format!

 

 

 

 

*APA Reference Examples

 

  1. Article Example: The following is the most common type of APA reference for an article by two or more authors.

 

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number (issue number if present), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy

 

 

Wiener, R. L., Winter, R., Rogers, M., & Arnot, L. (2004). The effects of prior workplace behavior on subsequent sexual harassment judgments. Law and Human Behavior, 28(1), 47-67. http://dx.doi.org /10.1023/B:LAHU.0000015003.72223.63

 

  1. Book Example: The following is the most common type of APA reference for an article by two or more authors.

 

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher Name.

 

Stoneman, R. (2008). Alexander the Great: A life in legend. Yale University Press.

 

Bordens, K.S. & Abbott, B.B. (2008).  Research design and methods: A process approach. (7th ed.).  McGraw Hill.

 

 

 

For a good resource for references, go to:

 

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_articles_in_periodicals.html