Undergraduate Liaison

Erin Carlson

e-mail: Erin.Carlson@pepperdine.edu
telephone: 310-506-4256
AIM general reference chat: (often staffed by other librarians)

Graduate Liaison

Maria Brahme

e-mail: Maria.Brahme@pepperdine.edu
telephone: 310-506-5686
AIM general reference chat: (often staffed by other librarians)

Graduate Liaison

Janet Beal (Irvine Campus)

e-mail: Janet.Beal@pepperdine.edu
telephone: 949-223-2598
AIM general reference chat: (often staffed by other librarians)

Psychology Research Blog

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Welcome to the Psychology Wiki!

Last changed Mar 17, 2009 12:09 by Michael Dula
Labels: psychology, wiki, research

Welcome to Pepperdine Libraries' new Psychology Wiki. Watch this space for information relevant to your research needs.

Posted at Mar 17, 2009 by Michael Dula | 0 comments

To view older posts, visit the Blog Archive.

In the news...

ScienceDaily: Mind & Brain News (Psychology news from leading research institutes around the world. Research on relationships, new treatments for mental health conditions, and more. Updated daily.)
Researchers find new piece of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) puzzle A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease could be a step closer based on new results from scientists in the UK. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE.
Shifting blame is socially contagious Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem -- even when the target is innocent -- greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu.
Bypassing the blues: Telephone treatment for depression post-bypass surgery improves quality of life Coronary artery bypass graft patients who were screened for depression after surgery and then cared for by a nurse-led team of health care specialists via telephone reported improved quality of life and physical function compared to those who received their doctors' usual care, according to a new study.
Brain disease 'resistance gene' evolves in Papua New Guinea community; could offer insights into CJD A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by scientists in the UK.
Why can't some people give up cocaine? Drug dependency is a recurrent but treatable kind of addiction. However, not all people who are drug dependent progress in the same way once they stop taking drugs. A new study shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called ‘scale of craving’, an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse are the factors most commonly involved in people falling back into the habit.

General Research Guides

• Cross-Cultural Psychology, Counseling and Therapy
• Eating Disorders
• Substance Abuse
• Finding Tests Measures and Scales
• Resources in Positive Psychology

coming soon:

• [Resources in Play Therapy]
• [Resources in Neuropsychology Research]
• [Resources in Statistics for Psychology Research]

Course Research Guides

• Psychology 641 Clinical and Evaluation Research Methods
• Psychology 603 Assessment for Marriage and Family Therapists

Major Psychology Theorists

• [Alfred Adler] (coming soon)
• BF Skinner
• DW Winnicott

Research Databases in Psychology

• Find journal articles
• Information about scales, tests and measures
• Access Dissertations & Theses
• Search for books in libraries outside of Pepperdine
• and much, much more in the:
  Pepperdine Library Databases

New Psychology Books at Pepperdine University Libraries

Pepperdine University Libraries: New Books - Psychology (BF) (The latest cataloged items in the University Libraries collections for Psychology (BF).)
Emerging cognitive abilities in early infancy Emerging cognitive abilities in early infancy / edited by Francisco Lacerda, Claes von Hofsten, Mikael Heimann. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001. BF720.C63 E44 2001
APA dictionary of psychology APA dictionary of psychology / Gary R. VandenBos, editor in chief. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2007. BF31 .A65 2007
Dissertations and theses from start to finish Dissertations and theses from start to finish : psychology and related fields / John D. Cone and Sharon L. Foster. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2006. BF76.5 .C645 2006
Ethical conflicts in psychology Ethical conflicts in psychology / Donald N. Bersoff. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2008. BF76.4 .E814 2008
Essentials of person-environment-correspondence counseling Essentials of person-environment-correspondence counseling / Lloyd H. Lofquist and René V. Dawis. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991. BF637.C6 L65 1991
Psychology licensure and certification Psychology licensure and certification : what students need to know / edited by Thomas J. Vaughn. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2006. BF80.8 .P78 2006
Brain sense Brain sense : the science of the senses and how we process the world around us / Faith Hickman Brynie. New York : American Management Association, c2009. BF233 .B97 2009