Psychology research at liberal arts colleges

To assess the magnitude and scope of journal publications by faculty at lib eral arts colleges, eve used PsycLIT to compile a list of Publications from 1984 to 1993 for which the first author's affiliation was among the 161 sc hools classified as liberal arts colleges by the Camegie Foundation. We ran ked schools by the total number of pages and articles, with adjustments for quality of journal and department size, to show the extent of journal publ ications from liberal arts colleges. Also, we broadly assessed what kind of research at liberal arts colleges resulted in journal publications by dete rmining the journals that published the articles and the subject classifica tion of the articles. Finally, ave showed chat mentoring students correlate s with research output in the form of published journal articles.