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

Peer-reviewed: This means that the source has been reviewed by experts in the field, who have deemed it acceptable quality for publication.

You may select either a research study where data has been collected, analyzed, and reported on by the authors or a scholarly review or meta-analysis; a scholarly review is a summary of the current research in the field, while a meta-analysis involves a statistical analysis comparing the findings of other research studies.

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 PsycNet
- See Keyword/Search Terms for Specific Studies below.
- Limit to Peer-Reviewed.
- On the results page, limit the Methodology to Empirical Study if you want to only find research studies.
Science Direct

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.
On the results page, limit the Methodology to Empirical Study.

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.
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"
- Attachment AND mother AND Harlow
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"
Skinner, Superstition in pigeons
- superstition
- behavior OR rituals
- operant conditioning
Zimbardo, The pathology of imprisonment
- "Stanford Prison Experiment"
- incarceration OR imprisonment