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| based on an experiment or study. This type of article will have a methodology section that tells how the experiment was set up and conducted, a results or discussion section, and usually a conclusion section. In psychology courses, you are often asked to find empirical articles. Empirical articles are original research articles. | Literature Review | Systematic Review | Meta-Analysis |
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written to bring together and summarize the results/conclusions from multiple original research articles/studies. This type of article will not usually have a methodology section, and they generally have very extensive bibliographies. |
a form of literature review that comprehensively identifies, appraises, and synthesizes all relevant research on a specifically formulated question. |
combines carefully selected data from previous empirical studies to bring more rigor to a statistical or other analysis. |
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