Choices

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  • Not only could you use the scholarly, peer-reviewed article “Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload” for a research paper on the topic of “choice,” you can use some of the sources referenced in the article.
  • Find the reference on page 423 for an article written by Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper. Copy the title of that article and paste it into the LionSearch widget. Now, you have another excellent source of information for your topic.
  • If you would like background information on your topic, try searching Gale Virtual Reference Library. The article “Choice in Psychology” provides a brief overview and a bibliography listing additional sources.
  • You’ll notice one of the sources in this bibliography is a book chapter written by Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper. Check LionSearch to see if Penn State Libraries have the book Self and Motivation: Emerging Psychological Perspectives.