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There are several ways you can find a popular source that deals with the topic of psychology. You can browse a psychology-related publication, find an article on a website, or even search in our databases.
Searches across all ProQuest databases. Articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers covering every subject area and news topics.
Search Tips
And / Or / Not
When you put words in a search box, it is by default using the word "and" to combine your terms. You will likely find "or" to be useful in identifying references to studies:
study or research*
Asterisk
Typing Shift + 8 on a standard keyboard tells the database to look for various word forms.
teen* finds teen, teenage, teenaged, teenager
Quotes
Using quotation marks in your search tells the database to look for those words together as a phrase. It can be helpful in identifying key phrases:
"according to", "recent study"
Source Type Limiter
Narrowing the search to magazines provides only results that are published in a popular source.
Videos on Search Strategies
" " - Searches as an exact phrase * - Truncates a term to search for varied endings ( ) - Tells the database to do this part first
AND - Finds all the words OR - Finds either of the words NOT - Excludes a word from search