Archive for the ‘Doing Research’ Category

How to find elusive papers and books

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

You may be familiar with this scenario. You’re doing an essay, or revising for an exam, and there’s one annoying paper or book that you just can’t seem to find. Before you shell out for a full price book or a pdf paper (pdfs can cost $20 each!), there are a few tricks [...]

Positive Psychology Resources

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

If, like me, you’re studying positive psychology, or if you’re keeping up with the field for personal or professional reasons, you will find the following links useful.  They are great for finding new information and opinions, and especially for getting hard-to-find journal articles in PDF:
Positive Psychology Search
- The Google of positive psychology
Positive Psychology News Daily
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Where to find good information online

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Are you sick of looking for information on a topic, but only finding the standard “Four Secrets Of….”, or “The Ten Best Ways To….” articles?  You know what I mean, they usually have about 3 sentences for each point, no depth, no meaningful commentary, just a few of the author’s unsubstantiated opinions puked onto a [...]