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In reply to the discussion: Is it time for a Feminist Manifesto for DU? [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)Re research: do you know that there are online professional psychology resources, some aspects of which are searchable for free and other, more full-text, parts of which are searchable by means of a reasonably priced day-pass?
The American Psychological Association PsycNET:
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/index.aspx &
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/
And there is also auxiliary support for these kinds of resources like:
http://www.kfinder.com/newweb/Products/PsycLIT_ClinPSYC/PsycLIT.html &
http://www.questia.com/ &
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
I hope that's not too much stuff (there's also more out there), but, based on my personal experience, I really can honestly encourage your to get a dictionary and a thesaurus and to just jump in and slug it out with this kind of material.
I used to teach high school Psychology and it was one of my pet obsessions to take every last one of my students, one by one, into these kinds of online databases and personally introduce them to at least the ABSTRACTS of the psychology research. Almost ALL of them enjoyed the effort and, with a little help, figured out enough of the research jargon to go after their own questions and interests in a pretty purposeful way.
Enjoy! &
Later . . .
p