This guide was designed by Rachael Cathcart to help identify resources on Social Psychology and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the EZ Proxy link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail lyref@fau.edu.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

When using the ALEPH library catalog to look for books and other materials, you may want to do a "Subject" search and use the following Library of Congress subject headings. This is not a complete list. (Note: Use two dashes (located next to the zero/0 on the keyboard) to separate subdivisions from headings.)

ATTITUDE CHANGE	SOCIAL INFLUENCE
ATTRIBUTION SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	SOCIAL PERCEPTION
CONFORMITY	SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
GROUP IDENTITY	SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY--MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NEED PSYCHOLOGY	SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY--METHODOLOGY
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR	SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY--PERIODICALS
PERSONALITY	SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY--RESEARCH
PREJUDICE	SOLIDARITY
SMALL GROUPS
For further assistance in determining subject terms visit the Reference Desk or consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes, located near the Reference Desk.

FINDING BOOKS

GENERAL COLLECTION:
Feel free to walk through the stacks; sometimes the best books are found by browsing. These call numbers provide the general location of materials related to Social Psychology.

Library of Congress Classification
PSYCHOLOGY	BF
PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY	BF 698 - 698.9
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	HM 1001 - 1281
SOCIAL PERCEPTION/COGNITION	HM 1041 - 1101
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS	HM 1106-1171
(Books that have call numbers beginning with BF are located on the 2nd floor, West wing of the library; Books with call numbers beginning with HM are on the 2nd floor, East wing)

The Full Library of Congress Classification Outline may be found at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

	PsycARTICLES   Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF journals, most from 1988 to the present.
	PsycINFO PsycINFO contains more than 1.5 million references to journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations dealing with mental health, neuroscience, psychology, psychometrics, and related disciplines.  This resource provides links to full text dissertations within the ProQuest Digital Dissertations database.
	Social Sciences Full Text Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
	Sociological Abstracts   CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
	Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection   Includes the full-text of 28 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).
	Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)   Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non- profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.
	Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection    Includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 4,100 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
	Education Full Text   Subject areas include adult education, arts, athletics, comparative education, competency-based education, computers in education, continuing education, educational technology, elementary education, government funding, higher education, instructional media, language arts, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, parent-teacher relations, prayer in public schools, preschool education, religious education, school administration, science and mathematics, secondary education, special education, student counseling, teacher education, teacher evaluation, teaching methods, vocational education.  Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
	Electronic Collections Online Electronic abstracts and full-text of nearly 3000 journals fully browsable by title. Covers humanities and social sciences from 1995 to present.
	ERIC Covers education-related research from conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
	Expanded Academic Index From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
	Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research Information from the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences administered by the Institute for Social Resarch at the University of Michigan.
	JSTOR Digital images of complete runs of back issues of selective journals in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies; 19th century to 1995.
	Oxford University Press Provides online access to approximately 130 multidisciplinary journals published by Oxford University Press, with a contents alerting service. Subject areas include: area studies, art and visual culture, biochemistry and molecular biology, biology and ecology, classics, communication studies, computing and engineering, economics and business, genetics, geoscience, health sciences, history, language studies, law, literary studies, mathematics and statistics, medicine, music, neurology, oncology, philosophy, political science, psychology and psychiatry, religion, and sociology and social work.
	Periodicals Contents Index Full Text (PCI Full Text) Comprehensive historical index of articles in numerous periodicals and journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including many European titles. Coverage from 1770 to present.
	Politics and International Relations: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 6,700 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory/Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.
	ProQuest Digital Dissertations Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
	Readers' Guide with Full Text/Readers' Guide Retrospective Subjects include aeronautics, African-Americans, aging, astronomy, automobiles, biography, business, Canada, children, computers, consumer education, current events, education, environment, fashion, film, fine arts, food, foreign affairs, health, history, hobbies, home, journalism, leisure activities, medicine, music, news, nutrition, photography, politics, religion, science, sports, and television. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles. Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Current coverage for this database includes the years 1890 through 1982.
	SPORT Discus SPORT Discus is an international database provided by SIRC. The database contains information on the following: sports medicine, exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment.
	Web of Science - Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
	Women and Social Movements in the United States The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities.

JOURNALS

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS IN PSYCHOLOGY
PRINT JOURNALS IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: (To retrieve this list in the Catalog, search by SUBJECT for social psychology--periodicals)
H96 .A53	Analyses of social issues and public policy : ASAP.
HM251 .A757	Applied social psychology annual.
BF1 .B723	British journal of social and clinical psychology.
BF1 .B725	The British journal of social psychology.
HM251 .E8	European journal of social psychology.
HM24 .J6	Journal for the theory of social behaviour.
RC321 .J7	Journal of abnormal and social psychology.
HM251 .J56	Journal of personality and social psychology.
BF1 .J687	Journal of social and personal relationships.
HM251.A1 J6	The Journal of social psychology; political, racial, and differential psychology.
BF636.A1 O7	Organizational behavior and human performance.
BF698 .P47	Personality and social psychology bulletin.
HM251 .P73	Progress in applied social psychology.
HM251 .R48	Review of personality and social psychology.
HM1 .S62	Social behavior and personality.
HM1 .S8	Social psychology quarterly.
HM1 .S8	Sociometry.
HM1 .S84	Studies in symbolic interaction.

PRINT REFERENCE RESOURCES

REF HM251 .N815 1998	Nowak, Andrzej and Vallacher, Robin. (1998). Dynamical Social Psychology. New York : Guilford Press.
REF BF121 .H1955 2003	Weiner, Irving B. (ed.) (2003). Handbook of Psychology. New York : Wiley.
REF RC454 .H34 2003	Halgin, Richard P. (2003). Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in abnormal psychology. Guilford, Conn. : McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.
REF HQ1115 .E52 2001	Worell, Judith. 2001. Encyclopedia of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender. San Diego, Calif. : London : Academic.
REF BF76.7 .P83 2001	Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association.
REF HM886 .E53 1999	Kurtz, Lester (ed.). (1999). Encyclopedia of violence, peace & conflict. San Diego : Academic Press.
REF HM251 .H224 1998	Gilbert, Daniel, Fiske, Susan, and Gardner, Lindzey. (1998). The handbook of social psychology. Boston : McGraw-Hill.
REF BF721 .H242 1998	Damon, William (ed.). (1998). Handbook of child psychology. New York : Wiley.
REF BF149 .T34 1998	Slife, Brent (ed.) Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial psychological issues. Guilford, Conn. : Dushkin Pub. Group.
REF HM251 .B476 1995	Manstead, Antony and Hewstone, Miles (eds.). (1995). Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995.
REF HM136 .L46 1994	Levinson, David (1994). Aggression and conflict : a cross-cultural encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 1994.
REF RC467 .H29 1991	Snyder, C. R. and Foresyth, Donelson (eds.). (1991). Handbook of social and clinical psychology : the health perspective. New York: Pergamon Press, 1991.
REF Z695.1.P7 T48 2001	Gallagher, Lisa. (2001). Thesaurus of psychological index terms. Washington, DC: APA, 2001.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Library Guides for Related Disciplines : Library Research Guide for General Psychology Library Research Guide for Sociology Library Research Guide for Social Work Databases--What’s Your Major: Psychology Databases--What's Your Major: Sociology Databases--What's Your Major: Social Work FAU Web Pages Relating to Psychology/Social Psychology: FAU Psychology Department Career Center Guide for Social Psychology Majors Career Center Guide for Psychology Majors APA Style Links: APA Citation Style APA Research Style Crib Sheet How to Cite from the World Wide Web General: Quick Search Guide to PsycARTICLES Social Psychology Network Psych Web by Russ Dewey U.S. Psychology PhD Programs Graduate Student Resources--American Psychological Society Practical Guide to Graduate School and Careers in Psychology Tipsheets for Psychology Majors Associations: American Psychological Association Psi Chi: The National Honor Society for Psychology American Psychological Society Society of Experimental Social Psychology Society for Personality & Social Psychology Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues List of Associations in Psychology

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