Category Archives: Behavioral and Social Sciences

The American Psychological Association has added a number of books to the PsycBooks database. You can find a list of the additions at http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycbooks/new-releases.aspx. Webster students, faculty, and staff may access the PsycBooks database as follows: 1. Go to the … Continue reading →

Thirty new cultures have been added to the eHRAF World Cultures database. You can view a list of the recent additions at http://www.yale.edu/hraf/library_information.htm.

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Roberto Abadie, an anthropologist who studies people who volunteer to take part in trials for new drugs. You can read the article at http://chronicle.com/article/Inside-the-Risky-World-of-D/66225/. Glenn, David. (2010). Inside the risky … Continue reading →

The American Psychological Association has added a number of books to the PsycBooks database. Six of the books are recently published; the rest are classics. You can find a list of the additions at http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycbooks/new-releases.aspx. Webster students, faculty, and staff … Continue reading →

The June 4, 2010 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education had an interesting article about intuition. Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris use the Malcolm Gladwell book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, as an example of a pop … Continue reading →

The March 19 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education has a lengthy article about Sheena Iyengar, a Professor of Business at Columbia University, who has done research into whether having too many choices is a good or bad thing. … Continue reading →

The March 19 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has a brief interview with David Turkon, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ithaca College. He discusses cultural issues that impact the treatment of AIDS in Lesotho. Here is the citation: … Continue reading →

During March, Alexander Street Press (http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/) is offering free access to a database called Women and Social Movements in the U.S. According to the publisher, “the collection includes primary materials such as diaries, letters, photographs, and pamphlets and makes them … Continue reading →

(Blog post courtesy of Georgiana Grant, Webster U. Library Reference Librarian). Do you worry about losing your flash drive with all of your research on it? Would you like to be able to re-run past database searches? Do you find … Continue reading →