Mind, Brain, Behavior Research Guide

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Find a scholarly overview, background and context for a subject along with references to key scholars and related works.

• Very Short Introductions
  • Consciousness
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
• Oxford Bibliographies Online. Psychology
  • Biological Psychology
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness

General Databases

• HOLLIS - Search Harvard's collection of books and articles.
  • ​Search Tips
• Academic Search Premier -  A good starting place; covers both popular and scholarly material.
• Google Scholar - Broad subject coverage; challenging to refine large sets of search results.

Subject Databases

• PsycInfo - Created by the American Psychological Association, the primary database for scholarly material in psychology.
• PubMed - The major source for biomedical articles since 1947. PubMed tutorial

• Harvard Guide to Using Sources - from the Harvard Writing Project
• Zotero: Getting Started - A tool for saving, organizing and formatting your research sources
• Brief Guide to Writing the Psychology Paper - from the Harvard College Writing Center
• What is Peer Review?
• Five Common Strategies for Generating Leads from What You Already Have
• Interrogating Texts