Psychology: Find Overviews

UW Libraries resources for research in and study of psychology.

Reference Databases

Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window
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Full text encyclopedias in a wide range of social science subjects and beyond.
Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly, annotated listing of the most important sources on social sciences subjects. Follow the link under Psychology.
SAGE Research Methods Online (SRM) This link opens in a new window
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Articles, books, case studies, datasets, and video covering the practices of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research methodologies. See SRM Guide

The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology
Irving B. Weiner; W. Edward Craighead. 2010 Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley
The Dictionary of Psychology
Raymond J. Corsini, author. 2016 London, England ; New York : Routledge
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
James D. Wright, editor. 2015 Amsterdam : Elsevier
The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology
Robin L. Cautin, editor.; Scott O. Lilienfeld, editor. 2015 Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Encyclopedia of the Mind
Harold E. Pashler, editor. 2013 Los Angeles : SAGE Reference
Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: an A-Z Guide
Andrew Scull, 1946- editor. 2014 Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications
APA Dictionary of Psychology
Gary R. VandenBos, editor. 2015 Washington, DC : American Psychological Association
The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology
Shane J. Lopez. 2009 Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
Yolanda Kaye Jackson, editor. 2006 Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications
Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
Editors-in-chief, Michael D. Breed, Janice Moore. 2010 London ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier