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Psychology: Books

New Books

Finding Books & eBooks

It is impossible for a library to own every book, journal, video, article, etc. that a campus community would want to read or watch, but interlibrary loan fills that void. We participate with OhioLINK for a lot of our interlibrary loan items which provides us with intrastate borrowing and lending.

Finding Books

How do you find psychology books in the library? Start with the item's location and call number.

The location tells you where the item is located in the library. Our most common locations are:

  • Main Books: New 3rd Floor, Old 3rd Floor, Old 2nd Floor, and Ground Floor (depends on the call number)
  • Curriculum Resource Center: Old 3rd Floor
  • Oversize: Ground Floor
  • Reference: Old 2nd Floor
  • Reference Oversize: Ground Floor

Call numbers tell you where the item is located as well as its subject. The University Library uses the Dewey Decimal System to arrange all library items. Psychology is spread throughout the Dewey Decimal System. 

  • 100: Philosophy & psychology
  • 150: Psychology
  • 152: Perception, movement, emotions, drives
    • 152.1: Sensory perception 
    • 152.3: Movements and motor functions, facial expressions, laterality
    • 152.4: Emotions and feelings
    • 152.5: Physiological drives
    • 152.8: Quantitative threshold, discrimination, reaction-time studies
  • 153: Mental processes & intelligence 
    • 153.1: Memory and learning
    • 153.2: Formation and association of ideas
    • 153.3: Imagination and imagery
    • 153.4: Knowledge (Cognition)
    • 153.6 :Communication
    • 153.7: Perceptual processes
    • 153.8: Will (Volition)
    • 153.9: Intelligence and aptitudes
  • 154: Subconscious & altered states & processes
  • 155: Differential & developmental psychology 
    • 155.2: Psychological tests
    • 155.3: Sex psychology and psychology of the sexes
    • 155.4: Child psychology
    • 155.5: Psychology of young adults
    • 155.6: Psychology of adults
    • 155.:7 Evolutional psychology
    • 155.8: Ethnopsychology and national psychology
    • 155.9: Environmental psychology
  • 156: Comparative psychology
  • 158: Applied psychology
  • 155.8: Ethnopsychology and national psychology
  • 303.385: Prejudice psychological aspects
  • 303.482: Ethnopsychology
  • 306.8: Adolescent psychology
  • 370.15: Educational psychology
  • 591.5: Animal psychology
  • 613.713: Coaching (Athletics)
  • 614.1: Forensic Psychology
  • 616.85: Psychopathology

When you are in the shelves, look at the neighboring items because you might find other books that fit your needs as well.