PSYC 110: Research Paper #2 - Scientific Date Night
How can you use science to help make the ‘perfect date night’?
In this research paper, you are going to practice answering questions with psychological
esearch. You will find psychological studies (literature) to support your ideas.
Think about strategies people might use to increase their chances for a successful date.
Brainstorm ideas on what you could do to make your date fall head over heels for you. Search
the literature for scientific evidence to support your ideas. Always think critically about the
evidence you find. How does it support your idea?
For your written assignment, we would like you to each complete a ‘mini-literature review’.
Please summarize two different date night ideas that you support with two different pieces of
scientific evidence from the literature (i.e. two different empirical articles). Use tools such as
google scholar to search for scientific literature to support your ideas. Describe your suggestions
for the date and discuss the evidence you found to support each idea by
iefly describing the
experiment and findings. Briefly describe the most important, main points of the methods and
esults of the studies and the implications for your date night.
Make sure you cite the research in your review using APA referencing style and have an
appropriate ‘References’ section. You will have then successfully completed the ‘scientific date
night’ assignment (as well as acquired a vast catalogue of ideas to choose from when you prepare
your next date!).
Some help:
To find scientific articles in relation to a certain topic, you can for example use:
• Google scholar
• Web of Science
• PubMed
• Scientist’s personal webpages
(Publication lists)
• Specific journals.
See ‘Finding Literature’ doc attached.
APA in-text citations guide:
https:
owl.purdue.edu/owl
esearch_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_
text_citations_author_authors.html
Reference section guide:
https:
owl.purdue.edu/owl
esearch_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide
ef
erence_list_basic_rules.html
APA guidelines on in-text citations:
https:
apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations
asic-principles/author-date
https:
owl.purdue.edu/owl
esearch_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_author_authors.html
https:
owl.purdue.edu/owl
esearch_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_author_authors.html
https:
owl.purdue.edu/owl
esearch_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide
eference_list_basic_rules.html
https:
owl.purdue.edu/owl
esearch_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide
eference_list_basic_rules.html
https:
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APA guidelines for referencing journal articles:
https:
apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines
eferences/examples/journal-article-references
Be concise. Please try to keep it under 800 words.
Evaluation:
*Clearly written, coherent structure
*presents 2 different date night ideas
*supports each idea with a relevant study in the literature (each idea should have its own study)
*
iefly describes each of the studies accurately (e.g what they did and what they found)
*clearly demonstrates how each described study supports their date suggestion
*each study has a co
ect accompanying APA style in-text citation and reference entry in the
eference section
*avoids vague and imprecise statements
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Finding Literature
To find literature, you have of course more general options such as the Internet or the
li
ary, but there are also more specific ways to find sources for essays, presentations,
or to satisfy your own curiosity:
Google Scholar
Google Scholar a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or
metadata of scholarly literature across an a
ay of publishing formats and disciplines.
The Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and
ooks, conference papers, theses, dissertations, and much more. In case you are not
only looking for journal articles, or to get a first overview of a topic, Google Scholar
is very useful.
Search Tips: http:
scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/schola
help.html
Web of Science
Web of Science is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service
maintained by Thomson Reuters that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives
access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows
for in-depth exploration of specialized sub-fields within an academic or scientific
discipline. You will find all kinds of articles here and you have great options to refine
your search by keywords, discipline(s) and to order search results by number of citations
or publication date, for example. When you are looking at a paper you will also get
suggestions of other related papers, you might be interested in. While it might take a
little bit of practice to master this tool, it is an extremely useful and resourceful way of
finding articles! It’s highly recommended.
Direct access:
https:
apps.webofknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS&se
arch_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=Y2S9qdb2ueIURoTyFl5&preferencesSaved=
Through Yale: https:
yale.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:
www.webofknowledge.com
http:
scholar.google.co.uk/intl/en/schola
help.html
https:
yale.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:
www.webofknowledge.com
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PubMed
PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references
and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. You can find most papers related to
psychology here. This search engine is very useful in particular when you just quickly want
to look at abstracts, or if you want to find references.
Access: https:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Scientist’s personal webpages
If you know that a specific researcher is working on a topic you are interested in, it is often very
useful to check out their personal webpages and their publication lists! This can provide you
with a great overview of the work of a specific person and possibly with a very easy way to
download and read their papers.
Specific journals
Sometimes you might also just want to look at what specific journals have published in relation
to a topic. You can then consult their webpages directly. For an overview you can also access
them via the Yale li
ary webpage.
Access: https:
einecke.li
ary.yale.edu/li
ary-catalogs-databases
Yale Li
ary Research Tools
https:
web.li
ary.yale.edu/academics
esearch-tools
http:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
https:
web.li
ary.yale.edu/academics
esearch-tools
Google Schola
Web of Science
PubMed
Scientist’s personal webpages
Specific journals
Yale Li
ary Research Tools