FINDING AND ANALYZING FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH

Critical reading, thinking, and analysis are skills that you will hone throughout this course and your program. This week’s Learning Resources will help you to better understand the process of critical thinking and develop a strategy for evaluating the academic literature you consume. For this Discussion, you will become familiar with using the Walden Library databases to find two peer-reviewed, scholarly articles published by academic journals. You will then compare the articles and practice scholarly writing and formatting your in-text citations and references in APA format. This exercise will help prepare you for the Annotated Bibliography you will be writing for next week’s Assignment. Review this week’s Learning Resources to better understand the process of critically reviewing academic literature. Review Evaluating and Comparing Empirical Literaturedocument, found in this week’s Learning Resources, to guide you in the Discussion. Search two databases (e.g., PsycInfo, Thoreau, Science Direct, Taylor & Francis) located within the Walden Library. Identify and select two peer-reviewed articles about the same forensic psychology topic. (For example, look for two articles about false confessions, psychopathy, treatment for domestic violence victims, etc.) Note: Websites like Wikipedia and WebMD do not meet the criteria for being scholarly sources. Post the following: Brief review of each of the articles you selected, including the major findings of each and the relevant citations and URL links Description of the ways in which the findings of each article are similar or different Explanation for why you think the findings of each article are similar or different given the topic is the same Note: Your posts should be substantial (2–4 paragraphs), supported with scholarly evidence from your research and/or the Learning Resources, and properly cited using APA style. Personal anecdotes are acceptable within meaningful responses but cannot stand alone as a response.