helpful APA style citation guides
- Student Paper Setup Guide"This guide will help you set up an APA Style student paper. The basic setup directions apply to the entire paper. Annotated diagrams illustrate how to set up the major sections of a student paper: the title page or cover page, the text, tables and figures, and the reference list."
- In-Text Citation ChecklistLook at this before handing in your paper.
(chapter 10 refers to the APA style Manual at BF76.7 .P83 2020 in the SAU library)
Your librarians at the Reference Desk in the library atrium can look over your in-text and references citations before handing in your paper to your professor. We can also help by email at librefdesk@sau.edu
or email your Psychology librarian, Stella, at herzigtellaj@sau.edu
Please use your SAU email account when emailing us and attach the paper or google share it to that email . Thanks.
The Film Analysis Assignment
- Social Psychology Film Analysis AssignmentThe actual assignment sheet
- Social Psychology Concepts and searching for Scholarly Articles in ProQuest databaseThis guide is geared towards the students doing the Film analysis
Remember not to put the title of the movie you are analyzing into the article search in the psychology databases. You yourself will be making the connection from what you learned from the articles and applying that to your understanding of the movie's use/illumination of the relevant psyc concept.
The films and the terms
Helpful tutorial for PyscArticles database
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The Literature Review assignment
- Social Psychology Literature Review Instructionsthe actual assignment sheet.
- Ding, K., Lin, H., Liu, G., Kong, F., Liu, J., & Zhou, X. (2025). The expectation-updating mechanism in gratitude: A predictive coding perspective. Emotion, 25(1), 198-209. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001421This article is an example of a single-study primary research article. the sort your professor wants you to find. Notice the elements of Population, methodology, the use of a scale or test, results as Section Markers. This helps you identify it asa primary research experiment.
Some examples of a literature review
What is a literature review?
A literature review considers the critical points of current knowledge including substantive findings, as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. Literature reviews are secondary sources and, as such, do not report any new or original experimental research or findings. When someone conducts a literature review, they synthesize the current research about a specific topic into one paper.
How is a literature review done?
Literature reviews are a multi-step process and can be time consuming. Choosing the right topic and finding the right primary research to address that topic is half the battle. After that, it is about finding patterns in the research and then writing the paper well, in accordance with the common structure for literature reviews (in APA format).
- Bilello, D., Townsend, E., Broome, M. R., Armstrong, G., & Burnett Heyes, S. (2024). Friendships and peer relationships and self-harm ideation and behaviour among young people: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. The Lancet Psychiatry, 11(8), 633This is an example of A systemic literature review done by professionals in the field. Notice all the mentions of other articles throughout the article.
The professor is asking you to make your OWN literature review based on the articles you choose for this assignment.