Assignment 2

Library Assignment Instructions – This is graded for accuracy! – 5 points! Fall 2022
NOTE: Make sure to upload your answers to the questions on this sheet in Canvas!
Some general rules in doing library research include:
1. Library content is continually changing, similar to Google. A Google search one day gets a certain number of results and the next day the number changes. Libraries also update and improve access to their content, so what works today may not necessarily work next year. Also, procedures may differ slightly depending on how you access the library’s computer databases (e.g. a connection from home versus a dedicated terminal in the library).
2. There are often several ways of locating the same information. This assignment directs you to several resources in order to familiarize you with their existence, but it is not the only way! If you find yourself getting stuck when using one resource—and you are able to locate the information a different way—feel free to do so.
3. This assignment will not cover all of the useful library resources available to you, and the undergraduate psychology librarians will show you an even broader array of options. For now, go to the FIU library website at http://library.fiu.edu/ to get started.
STEP 1: PsycINFO:
PsycINFO is the #1 database in psychology. It is an online source for finding articles in psychology journals. Go to the library website, library.fiu.edu and click Research: Start. You can find PsycInfo several ways including:
1. Go to library.fiu.edu and click Research: Start. Click Subject Resources. Click PSY3213/3215: Research Methods.
2. Go directly to the Library Research Guide created for this course called PSY3213/3215: Research Methods at library.fiu.edu/psy3215.
3. Go to library.fiu.edu and click Research: Start. Click Subject Resources, followed by Psychology. Click the Databases tab on the Psychology page.
4. Click A-Z Databases from the Research: Start page. Find PsycInfo (this is what I usually do!)
There are several options in PsycINFO. You can do a Basic Search, an Advanced Search, or browse on your own. Using Advanced Search will allow you to limit your search to articles that are the most relevant, provided you have a keyword, author name, journal title, or article title already in mind.
There are numerous ways to limit your search results including:
1. to a specific range of years
2. to specific languages, methodologies, age ranges, etc.
3. to peer reviewed articles (if you want primary sources only which is required for Paper 1).
You can also search PsycINFO for multiple items, which may include a combination of an author’s name, journal title, or a keyword in the title or abstract of a specific article, etc.
For example, to search for articles by a specific author, type in the author’s last name followed by the first name (and middle initial, if you know it) in the first empty search box. In the drop-down box to the right of the search boxes, select AUTHOR(AU). For example, if you type in Loftus Elizabeth and choose author, your search will find at least 422 articles that include her name as an author (wow, right! What a prolific writer!)
You can follow a similar procedure to locate articles by subject, title, or keyword. For example, try using the word “eyewitness” as a search term in the document title. When I did this a month ago, the results returned at least 1732 publications (which might have gone up since I last looked!). That is WAAAAY too many to look through! Of course, if you do only peer reviewed article, this drops a lot (but still has 1274 articles with eyewitness in the title!).
When you get such a large number of results, you will usually want to narrow down your search. You can do this by entering different search terms, or you can do this by combining results from searches you have already completed. Every time you do a search, the results are saved in your “recent searches.” You can combine articles in the search history to narrow down your list of articles to your specifications.
Let’s say you want a list of all articles authored by Elizabeth Loftus with the word “eyewitness” in the title. You have already run searches on Loftus Elizabeth as an author and eyewitness in the title. Click on the Recent Searches link at the top of the page and you will see those previous searches listed. In the Combine Searches box, type “search #1 and search #2” and hit enter. Elizabeth Loftus’s publications regarding eyewitnesses will be shown. When I did this, it came up with only 45 articles including Loftus as an author and eyewitness as a word in the title. If I look at Loftus, Eyewitness, and Peer Reviewed, this search drops to 28. This is MUCH more manageable.

Question One (.5 points): Using PsycINFO, locate an article authored by Trevor M. Spoelma and colleagues focusing on the gossip and social loafing. Use “Spoelma” as an author term and at least one of the following as document title terms: “Idle talk”, “team gossip”, or “positive” (You can look at more than one title keyword by clicking “Add a row” to allow for a third term). Select the correct, full APA-style reference* for this article on your assignment sheet. Note the DOI is needed for APA references, so make sure to include it!
A
Trevor M. Spoelma, & Andrea L. Hetrick (2020). More than idle talk: Examining the effects of positive and negative team gossip. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42, 604-618. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2522
B
Spoelma, T. M., & Hetrick, A. L. (2020). More Than Idle Talk: Examining The Effects of Positive and Negative Team Gossip. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42, 604-618. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2522
C
Spoelma, T. M., & Hetrick, A. L. (2020). More than idle talk: Examining the effects of positive and negative team gossip. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42, 604-618. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2522
D
Spoelma, T. M., & Hetrick, A. L. (2020). More than idle talk: Examining the effects of positive and negative team gossip. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42, 604-618. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2522

STEP 2: Full-Text Databases
Many libraries now have “full text” electronic journals. However, not all journals appear in full-text, including some that you will find in PsycINFO. Though PsycINFO is useful, there are other ways to find full-text online articles. If you search PsycINFO and do not find a link to full-text, click FIND IT @FIU to search across 1200+ databases for the full-text. Also, you can enter the journal name into the Library Catalog, the E-Journals search box or the Search Everywhere box on the library homepage, and you may find links to journals where you can find full-text documents.
Sometimes you’ll need to access library resources from home as well, which might mean logging into the FIU library (and some other services like Open Athens and Alma). Most of these services are accessible through the FIU library login pages.
Also, on the Psychology Resources page (library.fiu.edu/allpsychology), you will find PsycARTICLES. You can search within specific journals by clicking the Browse tab and selecting the journal title to search within the specific journal. If you know more specifically what you are looking for, you can use the search boxes to search for keywords or the author’s name.
For Questions Two, Three, and Four below, I want YOU to find a few different full-text articles using PsycInfo.
Question Two (.5 points). Recall the Spoelma and Hetrick article from Question One above (“More than idle talk: Examining the effects of positive and negative team gossip.”). The authors presented four hypotheses for their study. Which of the following is NOT one of the hypotheses that they provided?
A. Positive team gossip has a positive indirect effect on team performance through social loafing.
B. Positive team gossip reduces social loafing behavior
C. Neutral team gossip reduces social loafing behavior
D. Negative team gossip increases social loafing behavior.
E. Negative team gossip has a negative indirect effect on team performance through social loafing

F. Question Three (.5 points). In 2014, Xiangyu Ying and colleagues published an article with the title “Group laziness: The effect of social loafing on group performance”, which focuses on creating a new scale to measure social loafing tendencies. Find the full-text article and then choose the correct reference from those listed below.
A
Ying, X., Li, H., Jiang, S., Peng, F., & Lin, Z. (2014). Group Laziness: The Effect of Social Loafing on Group Performance. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 42(3), 465-472. doi:https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2014.42.3.465
B
Xiangyu Ying, Juanhuan Li, Shan Jiang, Fei Peng, & Zhongxin Lin. (2014). Group laziness: The effect of social loafing on group performance. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 42(3), 465-472. doi:https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2014.42.3.465
C
Ying, X., Li, H., Jiang, S., Peng, F., & Lin, Z. (2014). Group laziness: The effect of social loafing on group performance. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 42(3), 465-472. doi:https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2014.42.3.465
D
Ying, X., Li, H., Jiang, S., Peng, F., & Lin, Z. (2014). Group Laziness: The Effect of Social Loafing on Group Performance. Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal, 42(3), 465-472. doi:https://doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2014.42.3.465

Question Four (.5 points). Consider the same journal article from Question three above (“Group laziness: The effect of social loafing on group performance.”). On page 467, the authors discuss their measures, which include both the previously published “Perceived Social Loafing Questionnaire” (PSLQ) and their newly developed “Social Loafing Tendency Questionnaire” (SLTQ). Look at the scale used for both of these questionnaires. Which of the options below represent the scale ranges?
A. Very unlikely (0) to Very likely (5)
B. Strongly disagree (1) to Strongly agree (5)
C. Strongly disagree (0) to Strongly agree (5)
D. Not at all (1) to A great deal (5)
E. Not at all (0) to A great deal (5)
Question Five (.5 points): Using PsycINFO, find the article in which Stanislaw H. Czyz, Andrrzej Szmajke, Ankebe Kruger, and Magdalena Kubler (2016) published their article titled “Participation in team sports can eliminate the effect of social loafing.” In the literature review (final paragraph before the Methods section), the authors note that they used only one gender for their study. Which gender did the authors use in their study and what did the authors say to justify using only that gender (based on prior research from Karau & Williams, 1993)?
A. They used females, as research suggests that social loafing is significantly lower in females
B. They used females, as research suggests that social loafing is significantly lower in males
C. They used males, as research suggests that social loafing is significantly lower in females.
D. They used males, as research suggests that social loafing is significantly lower in males
E. They used both males and females
STEP 3:
Question Six (.5 points): I want YOU to locate one article relevant to your Paper I: Study One Literature Review that is different from those listed in the questions above and different than any of those posted on Canvas for your Paper I: Study One Literature Review. This article must be a primary source (Peer reviewed), reporting on original, empirical research (I don’t want reviews of the field or books at this time). You might want to find articles that look interesting to you by entering key words describing the topic of your study one (e.g., Social Loafing, The Ringlemann Effect, Deindividuation, Group Work, Accountability, Teamwork. Social Learning, Group versus Individual Performance, etc. There are tons of keywords for this topic – note that some of the articles in PsycInfo even list the keywords that they used for their paper). Using APA format, enter the reference on your answer sheet (Since Canvas may not allow for proper indenting or spacing, we will not mark off for that, but make sure the rest of your citation is in APA format):
Question Seven (.5 points): Now write a short summary of the article from question six and give me that summary in Canvas.
Question Eight (.5 points): Use the FIU library find a reference to a book that covers the same topic (or a closely related one) as the article you find in question six. In Canvas, give me this reference in APA format (again, you can ignore spacing issues if Canvas doesn’t allow for perfect APA spacing, but all other APA style elements should be present. Make sure you have a publisher, which is indicative of book references.
Question Nine (.5 points): Tell me if FIU owns the title: Yes or no. Tell me in Canvas
Question Ten (.5 points): If FIU does own the title from questions nine and ten, give me its call number or the ISBN (for an electronic book). If FIU does not own the title, tell me how you would go about getting your hands on the book to borrow using your student resources. Give me your responses in Canvas. Note that books will rarely be in pdf format!
*APA Reference Examples
a. Article Example: The following is the most common type of APA reference for an article by two or more authors.
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number (issue number if present), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/yyyy
Wiener, R. L., Winter, R., Rogers, M., & Arnot, L. (2004). The effects of prior workplace behavior on subsequent sexual harassment judgments. Law and Human Behavior, 28(1), 47-67. http://dx.doi.org /10.1023/B:LAHU.0000015003.72223.63
b. Book Example: The following is the most common type of APA reference for an article by two or more authors.
Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher Name.
Stoneman, R. (2008). Alexander the Great: A life in legend. Yale University Press.
Bordens, K.S. & Abbott, B.B. (2008). Research design and methods: A process approach. (7th ed.). McGraw Hill.
For a good resource for references, go to:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/reference_list_articles_in_periodicals.html