Psychology Research Guide: Cross-Cultural Comparison / Cumulative Research Assignment
A guide to resources for psychology
Assignment
- Examine a psychological concept and compare it to at least one other, non-American culture.
- Use a minimum of 5 total sources, at least 2 of which need to be scholarly journal articles.
- Write a paper using APA format, including a cover page.
Other sources to try
- World FactbookFrom the CIA, this site has detailed info about countries around the world. Use the drop-down menu to select a country.
Recommended resources
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Look up your psychological concept here to find background information and basic definitions. - PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowArticles from scholarly journals published by the American Psychology Association.
- ProQuest Psychology Journals This link opens in a new windowDatabase of scholarly journals in the field of psychology.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database including journals and popular periodicals.
Tips and tricks
- Use our Gale encyclopedias (in the box above) to search for your psychological concept to start.
- Use the "Advanced Search" option in our databases so you can search for multiple terms at once
- Try using "cross-cultural comparison" as one search term, along with your psychological concept and your country.
- Example: "Cross-cultural" and Japan and emotion
- The more search terms you use, the fewer results you get. Be flexible, try different combinations!
- Keep an open mind about what country or psychological concept you want to research.
- If you don't find a lot of articles in Academic Search Premier, try OneSearch (the main search box on the library homepage).
Getting started
Here's a 10-minute video recorded by one of our librarians, going over how to use the tips on this page along with our recommended databases.