How to increase our scientific and professional knowledge

Suggestions for young psychologists or exercise science graduates, students in these disciplines, and, above all, for thesis students. Of course, it also applies to anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge in these scientific and professional fields.

Look for what you want to know by making use of https://scholar.google.com/ which allows you to find the main scientific references related to topics of interest to you.

It is clear that you need to know English.

To search, write down the keywords that relate to the topic you are seeking information about.

For example, do you want to know more about performance anxiety in soccer? Type in: anxiety performance football players

You will find this page: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=it&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=anxiety+performance+football+players&btnG=

At this point, you have the authors and titles of the articles, of all of them you have the summary but only of some you have the full text, which you can download by clicking on what is written all on the right. For example of the first article you find this link: [HTML] frontiersin.org by clicking you will find the article.

If you want to search for similar articles, under the name of the article it says: related articles on just click.

If you want to search for a review of the literature published on this topic, you can add to the keywords: review

In this case, the second article cited is consistent with this query: Determinants of anxiety in elite athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Teaching: Using the resource of time and without any financial outlay, it is possible to acquire the most up-to-date knowledge on a topic of our interest.

You will then have a way to understand whether what you read on the web, in the various blogs you consult, are comments based on scientific evidence or are just opinions of the writer.

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