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Critique Paper Requirements (See ECLearn for full details)
Articles need to be BOTH peer-reviewed and empirical along with being related to the Hock reading you have chosen.

Empirical: An empirical article is one in which the authors have conducted some type of observational or experimental study, and they are reporting the results.
Quick tip: Most empirical articles in psychology are divided into sections: Introduction/background, Methods, Results, Discussion. If you find an article with these sections, there’s a good chance that it’s an empirical article. Literature reviews that summarize vast bodies of research without reporting actual data are not acceptable.
Peer-reviewed: This means that the source has been reviewed by experts in the field, who have deemed it acceptable quality for publication.

Article Databases

See How to Read and Comprehend Scientific Research Articles (video) by University of Minnesota Libraries and Anatomy of a Research Article (pdf) by Mohawk Valley Community College, NY.

APA PsycInfo
- Keyword/Search Terms for Specific Studies
- Limit to Peer Reviewed under Limit your results and Empirical Study under Methodology.
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Keyword/Search Terms for Specific Studies

Try using the below terms to search for your empirical research articles with using the search connectors of AND, OR:

AND: Using "and" between two terms narrows your search results. It only looks for articles with both terms.
OR: Using "or" between two terms expands your search results. It looks for articles with at least one of your terms.

See Finding Peer-Reviewed Studies in APA PsycInfo (Video Tutorial) to see an example search.

Bandura et al., Transmission of aggression
- aggression or aggressive behavior or aggressiveness or violence or violent behavior or aggressive behaviour or violent behaviour
  modeling
- media or media exposure
Darley & Latané, Bystander intervention in emergencies
- "Bystander effect" and "diffusion of responsibility"
  Note: Quotes are used to search for the phrases.
Festinger & Carlsmith (1959), Cognitive consequences of forced compliance
- "cognitive dissonance"
Freud, The ego and the mechanisms of defense
- defense mechanisms
- repression or regression or projection or reaction formation or sublimation
Gazzaniga, The split brain in man
- Gazzaniga and commissurotomy
Harlow, The nature of love
- "contact comfort"
Loftus, Leading questions and eyewitness report
- "leading questions" OR "eyewitness report"
Milgram, Behavioral study of obedience
- Milgram and obedience
Rosenhan, On being sane in insane places
- Confirmation bias OR labelling
- "mental illness" OR psychiatric diagnosis OR "mental diagnosis"
Rosenzweig, Bennett, & Diamond, Brain change in response to experience
- brain
- changes
- stimulation OR experience
Skinner, Superstition in pigeons
- superstition
- behavior OR rituals
- operant conditioning