This American Psychological Association (APA) full text article database contains the full text of articles from APA journals and other psychology publishers. You can search the full text of the articles or search using PsycINFO fields. This database is NOT the same as PsycINFO - you are only searching approximately 90 journals instead of the 2,500 journals PsycINFO indexes.
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Field Abbreviations & Examples
Unique Identifier uid: uid:2000-08148-006
Author au: or author: au:“morawski j”~1
Affiliation aff: aff:(“wesleyan u” and middletown)
Title ti: or title: ti:(“social psychology” and century)
Publication Year py: or pubyr: py:[1998 to 2000]
Source so: or source: source:“American psychologist”
ISSN issn: issn:0003-066x
ISBN isbn: isbn:0-8058-4178-4
Language lang: lang:english
Abstract ab: or abstract: ab:”social century”~5
Keywords kw: or keyword: kw:(emergence and “social psychology”)
IndexTerms it: it:“history of psychology”
(Thesaurus Terms)
Classification Codes cc: cc:(3000 or 31*)
Population Group pg: pg:(outpatient and female)
Age Group ag: ag:adulthood
Geographic Location loc: loc:us
Methodology me: me:“empirical study”
Document Type dt: dt:obituary
Release Date rd: rd:20050906
Auxiliary Materials aux: aux:“data sets”
DOI Number doi: doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2004.11.001
Publisher pub: pub:erlbaum
Reviewed Item rev: rev:(2005 and “psychology press”)
Tests & Measures tm: tm:“beck depression inventory”
Last Modified on 1/23/2013