Resource Guide:
Psychology of Humor

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• American Psychological Association
• Association for Psychological Science
• PsycCRITIQUES

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Psychology
• Psychology—Humor
• Laughter
• Wit and Humor—Psychological aspects
• Wit and Humor—Therapeutic use
• Clinical psychology
• Psychobiology
• Developmental psychology
• Cognitive psychology
• Personality
• Mood (Psychology)
• Optimism

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Alt HealthWatch
• Consumer Health Complete
• Health Source – Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• Medline
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• PsycInfo
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• PubMed
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Psychological Reports
• Humor: International Journal of Humor Research
• Journal of Social Psychology
• Child Development
• Frontiers in Psychology
• PLoS ONE
• Psychoanalytic Dialogues

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.