Throughout your psychology degree, there will be several assignments which ask you to create a logic grid or require you to use an advanced search strategy to locate resources, including review and empirical articles. This page provides an example logic grid for a search in PsycINFO that you can refer to while completing these types of assignments. For more information on each aspect of this logic grid, please see our Developing a Logic Grid page in our Advanced Searching MyUni Course.
To create the logic grid below, we completed these steps:
- Identified our research question's key concepts;
- Connected the search strings for each concept with AND;
- Added synonyms;
- Considered truncation, wildcards and phrase searching;
- Added database subject headings;
- Added database field codes;
- Put it all together in a logic grid.
- Entered it as a search string into PsycINFO
Research Question
Among adults diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, does cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) lead to a greater reduction in social anxiety symptoms compared to supportive counselling?
Logic Grid
| Social anxiety disorder |
Cognitive behavioural therapy |
Supportive counselling |
| Exp Social phobia OR (social anxiety disorder* OR social phobia OR social anxiety OR anthropophobia).ti,ab |
Exp cognitive behavior therapy OR (cognitive behavio?r therapy OR CBT OR cognitive processing therap* OR cognitive therap*).ti,ab |
Exp counseling OR (supportive psychotherapy OR supportive therapy OR supportive counselling OR supportive counseling).ti,ab |
Search String
Exp Social phobia OR (social anxiety disorder* OR social phobia OR social anxiety OR anthropophobia).ti,ab AND Exp cognitive behavior therapy OR (cognitive behavio?r therapy OR CBT OR cognitive processing therap* OR cognitive therap*).ti,ab AND Exp counseling OR (supportive psychotherapy OR supportive therapy OR supportive counselling OR supportive counseling).ti,ab
