TOP: Emotion

Encyclopedias Relevant to Psychology of Emotion

These specialized encyclopedia's provide orientation to "your emotion" and usually include references worth exploring further.

Books

Our print collection has many books and chapters of books on point.  Search our catalog to find them.  An effective search will include your target emotion and psychology  or physiology or "mass media" or "popular culture."  Truncate root words with * and search for phrases in "quotes".

Research Articles

Because research articles are usually quite narrow in scope or focused, the biggest challenge you will encounter will be around selecting which articles to use.  Expect to read many full text articles that will not be incorporated into your paper and reference list and still many more abstracts of articles. 

Tips

1. Limit your search to literature reviews to find comprehensive meta analysis of the research on your target emotion.
2. To find research on cultural variations search for phrases such as "crosscultural differences" or "sociocultural factors"
3. To find discussions of how the emotion is depicted ouside the academy, search for phrases such as "popular culture" or "mass media"

Emotions in Popular Culture

Finding representations and discussions of emotions in popular culture will involve looking beyond the typical scholarly database.  In addition to searching for discussions of emotion in books and articles on mass media or popular culture you may also search the artifacts of popular culture. 

Popular Print & Web Sites

Search for discussions and treatments of emotion in magazines and newspapers freely available on the web or via the following subscription library databases.