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Psychology  Tags: psychology apa tests measurements developmental cognitive mental_health neurology neuroscience child_development social-psychology stress human_brain brain_sciences behavioral_science creativity emotions  

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Potential Topics

  • Animals & Laughter
  • Humor & social status
  • Humor & economic status
  • Gender & Humor
  • Race & humor
  • Humor & power
  • Age & humor
  • Medicine & humor/laughter
    • laughter & mental health
    • laughter & life span
    • laughter & circulation, etc
  • Humor & therapy

 

 

Tools You Can Use

Boolean Operators

And - will find laughter and animals

Or - will laughter or animals but not both

Not - will find laughter but not animals.

"" - quotation marks

"global warming" <- finds as a phrase

* <- the asterisk.  This is found above the number 8. 

Examples: 

*national could also find international.

nation* might find nation, nations, national, nationality

#, ! <- number symbol and exclamation point.

humo#r or humo!r

would find humor and humour

gr#y = grey and gray

 
 

Needs...

A few points to remember...

Humor from Humanities & Social Sciences perspectives.

7-8 page paper

6 secondary sources

3 sources should be scholarly & 3 should be popular

Audience ='s a community of scientists.

 

 

Sample Search Next Gen Melvyl Pilot

Topic = laughter & animals.

screenshot of NextGen Melyl Pilot sample search

 

Questions?

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Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010
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