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  1. Psychological Review

    Journal scope statement. Psychological Review® publishes articles that make important theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology, including systematic evaluation of alternative theories. Papers mainly focused on surveys of the literature, problems of method and design, or reports of empirical findings are not appropriate.

  2. Writing a Literature Review

    An "express method" of writing a literature review for a research paper is as follows: first, write a one paragraph description of each article that you read. Second, choose how you will order all the paragraphs and combine them in one document. Third, add transitions between the paragraphs, as well as an introductory and concluding ...

  3. Writing a literature review

    Writing a literature review requires a range of skills to gather, sort, evaluate and summarise peer-reviewed published data into a relevant and informative unbiased narrative. Digital access to research papers, academic texts, review articles, reference databases and public data sets are all sources of information that are available to enrich ...

  4. Literature review as a research methodology: An ...

    There are many examples of articles that have been successfully published in higher-ranked business journals using a literature review strategy as a basis. Not accounting for the quality of the review itself, there seems to be a number of ways forward. ... Annual Review of Psychology, 51 (2000), pp. 171-200, 10.1146/annurev.psych.51.1.171. View ...

  5. Guidance on Conducting a Systematic Literature Review

    Literature review is an essential feature of academic research. Fundamentally, knowledge advancement must be built on prior existing work. To push the knowledge frontier, we must know where the frontier is. By reviewing relevant literature, we understand the breadth and depth of the existing body of work and identify gaps to explore.

  6. Mapping the Landscape of Behavioral Theories: Systematic Literature Review

    Through a cross-disciplinary literature review, this article identifies sixty-two behavioral theories from 963 search results, mapping them in a diagram of four groups (factors, strategies, learning and conditioning, and modeling), and points to five discussion points: understanding of terms, classification, guidance on the use of appropriate ...

  7. Research Guides: Psychology: Conducting a Literature Review

    6. Incorporate the literature review into your research paper draft. (note: this step is only if you are using the literature review to write a research paper. Many times the literature review is an end unto itself). After the literature review is complete, you should incorporate it into your research paper (if you are writing the review as one ...

  8. PDF University of Washington Psychology Writing Center http://www.psych.uw

    How many articles? Although published review articles may cite more than 100 articles, literature reviews for courses are often shorter because they present only highlights of a research area and are not exhaustive. A short literature review may survey 7-12 research articles and be about 10-15 pages long. For course paper guidelines, ask your ...

  9. Literature Review

    From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO contains nearly 2.3 million citations and abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. DynaMed.

  10. Writing a Literature Review (Chapter 2)

    I have been thinking about this topic quite a lot recently. As the current editor of Psychological Bulletin, the literature review journal of the American Psychological Association, I constantly deal with the issue of evaluating review papers. I had written a number of literature reviews myself prior to becoming editor; however, in the process ...

  11. Writing a Literature Review in Psychology

    The Introduction of a research article includes a condensed literature review. Its purpose is to describe what is known about the area of study, with the goal of giving the context and rationale for the study itself. Published literature reviews are called review articles. Review articles emphasize interpretation.

  12. Clinical Psychology Review

    About the journal. Clinical Psychology Review publishes substantive reviews of topics germane to clinical psychology. Papers cover diverse issues including: psychopathology, psychotherapy, behavior therapy, cognition and cognitive therapies, behavioral medicine, community mental health, assessment, and child …. View full aims & scope.

  13. PDF Writing a Psychology Literature Review

    There is no strict rule, but a short literature review generally requires about 7-12 research articles and is about 10-15 pages long, although this may change depending on if the assignment is limited to a certain number of studies or a page limit. There are three main steps: (1) selecting a research topic, (2) collecting and reading the ...

  14. Literature Reviews

    A literature review can be a short introductory section of a research article or a report or policy paper that focuses on recent research. Or, in the case of dissertations, theses, and review articles, it can be an extensive review of all relevant research. The format is usually a bibliographic essay; sources are briefly cited within the body ...

  15. Psychological Wellbeing: A systematic Literature Review

    Journal of Personality and So cial Psychology, 64(4), 678-691. IJARSCT ISSN (Online) 2581-9429 International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology (IJARSCT)

  16. Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

    Abstract. Narrative literature reviews serve a vital scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them. As compared with empirical reports, literature reviews can tackle broader and more abstract questions, can engage in more post hoc theorizing without the danger of capitalizing on chance, can make a stronger case for a ...

  17. * Psychology: Literature Reviews

    While many scholarly journals may publish literature reviews, some psychology journals are exclusively or mainly devoted to publishing review articles. When researching a topic, a relevant literature review is an excellent entry point for understanding concepts and the current state of research.

  18. How to Write a Literature Review

    Examples of literature reviews. Step 1 - Search for relevant literature. Step 2 - Evaluate and select sources. Step 3 - Identify themes, debates, and gaps. Step 4 - Outline your literature review's structure. Step 5 - Write your literature review.

  19. A Systematic Review of Trajectories of Clinically Relevant ...

    LC designed the study, conducted the systematic literature review and independently rated included articles for bias. AM reviewed the selection of articles and independently conducted a full-text review of selected articles and a bias assessment. LC and AM wrote the first draft of the manuscript with detailed revisions provided by BH.

  20. Psychology Databases

    PEP Archive is the essential database for psychoanalytic research. Covering many languages and notable authors, it offers peer-reviewed, full-text journals and classic books for psychoanalytic studies. APA PsycArticles · Full Text. Delve into the science of psychology and behavior with APA PsycArticles, the database of full-text peer-reviewed ...

  21. Writing a Literature Review

    A literature review is a document or section of a document that collects key sources on a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with each other (also called synthesis ). The lit review is an important genre in many disciplines, not just literature (i.e., the study of works of literature such as novels and plays).

  22. New Content From Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological

    Reproducibility of scientific results could be considered as the minimal threshold of this credibility. We assessed the reproducibility of a sample of meta-analyses published between 2000 and 2020. From a random sample of 100 articles reporting results of meta-analyses of interventions in clinical psychology, 217 meta-analyses were selected.

  23. Association between problematic social networking use and anxiety

    A growing number of studies have reported that problematic social networking use (PSNU) is strongly associated with anxiety symptoms. However, due to the presence of multiple anxiety subtypes, existing research findings on the extent of this association vary widely, leading to a lack of consensus. The current meta-analysis aimed to summarize studies exploring the relationship between PSNU ...

  24. The Influence of Social Media on Adolescent Body Image Perception, Self

    The International Journal of Indian Psychȯlogy(ISSN 2348-5396) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, academic journal that examines the intersection of Psychology, Social sciences, Education, and Home science with IJIP. IJIP is an international electronic journal published in quarterly. All peer-reviewed articles must meet rigorous standards and can represent a broad range of substantive ...