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A Dictionary of Psychology

Web Links

Listed below are over 120 useful and interesting web sites containing information about the concepts and terminology of psychology and closely related topics. Many of these sites contain large numbers of further links to additional related information. For convenience, the list has been grouped into roughly indicative categories, but the categories and the links within them are not arranged in any particular order.

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Psychological societies
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/psychol_soc.html
Scholarly Societies Project: Psychology. With numerous links to scholarly societies in psychology.
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/neuropsychiat_soc.html
Scholarly Societies Project: Neurosciences & Psychiatry. With numerous links.
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/psy.html
Psychological Societies. List of psychological societies around the world.
http://www.apa.org/
American Psychological Association. Massive site with many useful links.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/
Association for Psychological Science. With many links to other web sites.
http://www.bps.org.uk/
British Psychological Society. With news about psychology, a research digest, and much else besides.
http://www.bps.org.uk/smg/smg_home.cfm
Student Members Group. Site for the Student Members Group of the British Psychological Society.
http://www.cpa.ca/home/
Canadian Psychological Association. In English and French.
http://www.dgps.de/
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie. The German Psychological Society, web site in German.
http://www.eps.ac.uk/
Experimental Psychology Society. “For the furtherance of scientific enquiry within the field of Psychology.”
http://www.psychonomic.org/
Psychonomic Society. Dedicated to promoting communication of scientific research in psychology and allied sciences.
http://www.abainternational.org/
Association for Behavior Analysis International. Dedicated to “the growth and vitality of behavior analysis”.
http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/
Cognitive Science Society. Interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and education.
http://www.cogneurosociety.org/
Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Committed to the development of mind and brain research.
http://www.casbs.org/
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Dedicated to advancing knowledge about human behaviour.
http://www.gestalttheory.net/
Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications. “Promoting the Gestalt-theoretical perspective in research and practice.”

Online publications and databases
http://www.apa.org/monitor/
Monitor on Psychology. The American Psychological Association magazine.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
ScienceDirect. An on-line database of books and journal articles in psychology.
http://www.apa.org/psycarticles/
PsycARTICLES. Full-text articles from journals published mainly by the American Psychological Association.
http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/
PsycINFO database. Indexing some 2,000 psychology journals and includes dissertations, books, and reports.
http://www.apa.org/videos/
APA Videos. Information and purchasing site for a wide range of psychology videos and DVDs.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/author.htm
Classics in the History of Psychology. 19th and 20th century publications, with full-text versions.
http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/journals/journals_home.cfm
BPS Journals. Information about journals published by the British Psychological Society.
http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/rd/rd_home.cfm
BPS Research Digest. The British Psychological Society's free fortnightly digest of current research findings.
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp?q1
Scirus. A scientific search engine for scientific information on the web and in journals.
http://www.psycline.org/
Psycline. A journal and article locator.
http://www.umdnj.edu/psyevnts/search.html
Search Resources. List of links for searching mental health and psychiatry resources on the web.
http://journalseek.net/psyc.htm
Genamics JournalSeek. A searchable database of psychology journals, categorized by topic areas.

General psychology
http://www.psychwww.com
Psych Web. A megasite of psychology resources for students and lecturers.
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/linkbrowse.cfm?menuid=2373
BUBL LINK: Psychology. A massive catalogue of internet resources for psychology.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/psychology/
Intute: Psychology. Links to a wide range of psychology resources on the Internet.
http://www.apa.org/topics/
Psychology Topics. Extensive list of psychology topics, with associated articles and resources.
http://www.psywww.com/resource/deptlist.htm
Psychology Departments on the Web. World-wide list of university psychology departments, searchable by country.
http://allpsych.com/
AllPsych Online. A virtual psychology classroom for psychology students.
http://psychologymatters.apa.org/
Psychology Matters. Applications of psychological science to everyday life.
http://www.dialogical.net/psychology/index.html
Psychology World Wide Web. Virtual Library A virtual library of psychology information on the web.
http://www.psychologypracticals.com/
Psychology Practicals. Large selection of resources for teaching and learning about psychological research methods.
http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/
Higher Education Academy. Web site to promote excellence in learning, teaching, and assessment in psychology.
http://www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/
Psybersite. Web tutorials for learning about a wide range of topics in psychology.

Biological and comparative psychology
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html#tn
Neuroscience for Kids. Accessible web site dealing with many aspects of neuroscience.
http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/history.htm
Important Scientists in the Early Development of Comparative Cognition. Information on Darwin, Pavlov, Thorndike, etc.
http://www.animalbehavior.org/
Animal Behavior Society. “Founded to encourage and promote the study of animal behavior.”
http://www.neurosurgery.org/cybermuseum/pre20th/crowbar/crow...
American Crowbar Case. Phineas Gage's brain injury and nineteenth century theories of cerebral localization.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/brain/
Probe the Brain. Activities to learn about brain structure and function.
http://www.hedweb.com/gooddrug.htm
Good Drug Guide. Massive guide to drugs and their effects.
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/neurotut.html
Basic Neural Processes. A collection of tutorials on neural functions.
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lwh/drugs/
Drugs, Brains and Behavior. Full-text book by C. Robin Timmons and Leonard W. Hamilton (1990).
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html
Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer. Full-text book, by Tooby and Cosmides (1997).
http://www.sfn.org/
Society for Neuroscience. Advancing the study of the brain and nervous system.

Cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive science
http://cogprints.org/view/subjects/psyc.html
Cogprints. Free access to thousands of psychology articles on-line, subdivided by areas.
http://www.sjdm.org/related-links.shtml
Society for Judgment and Decision Making. With useful links to relevant web sites.
http://www.dualtask.org/
Dual Task. Demonstrations and information about human multi-task performance and attention limits.
http://www.apa.org/science/stroop.html
Interference: The Stroop Effect. Examples, information, and references about the Stroop effect.
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/loftus.mem....
Formation of False Memories. Informative discussion by Elizabeth Loftus.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/index.shtml
WordNet. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms.
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Investigation of neural mechanisms in human cognitive abilities.

Intelligence
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/index.shtml
Human Intelligence. Includes biographies and interactive map of the history of intelligence theory and testing.
http://www.emotionalintelligence.co.uk/
Institute for Applied Emotional Intelligence. Information about EI and its applications.
http://www.prometheus.org.uk/
Prometheus. A site devoted to research into natural intelligence.

Perception
http://www.illusionworks.com/
Illusions, Perception & Cognitive Science. Al Seckel's collection of visual illusions, with references and links.
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
Akiyoshi's illusion pages. Spectacular collection of visual illusions.
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/A/anatomy_disgust/
Anatomy of Disgust. Home page of the UK TV series, with much information about disgust.
http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FLM/MS/Physio.Percept.html
Physiology of Perception. Explanations and diagrams to explain the physiology of perception.

Personality
http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp
Test Reviews Online. Reviews of psychological tests from the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
http://ipip.ori.org/ipip/
International Personality Item Pool. IPIP, providing free personality tests for research in psychology.
http://pandc.ca/
Personality & Consciousness. Links to articles on personality theorists such as Adler, Jung, Lewin, Maslow.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html
Information on Self-efficacy. Massive site about self-efficacy, its measurement, and Albert Bandura's theories.
http://www.personalityresearch.org/
Great Ideas in Personality. Including tests, articles, and information on researchers.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/packages/emotion/
Brain & Emotion Research. Information and links to web sites and current research.
http://repgrid.com/pcp/
Personal Construct Psychology. Site devoted to the system developed by George Kelly.

Social psychology
http://www.socialpsychology.org/
Social Psychology Network. With over 14,000 links plus resources in social psychology teaching and research.
http://www.prisonexp.org/
Stanford Prison Experiment. The official web site, describing the classic experiment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_2006...
Altruism. Listen on-line to the BBC In Our Time debate about altruism.
http://muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/milgram.htm
Stanley Milgram. Biography and overview of his research into obedience and other issues.
http://www.indiana.edu/~soccog/scarch.html
Social Cognition Paper Archive. Articles and links to social psychology researchers.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
Project Implicit. Demonstrations and research information about the Implicit Association Test.
http://www.usal.es/~nonverbal/introduction.htm
Nonverbal Forum. Links to research on non-verbal behaviour, non-verbal communication, and body language.
http://www.sesp.org/
Society of Experimental Social Psychology. “A scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychology.”

Positive psychology
http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/
Positive Psychology Center. Promoting research, training, education, and the dissemination of positive psychology.
http://www.cappeu.org/
Centre for Applied Positive Psychology. Promoting the science and practice of positive psychology.

Developmental psychology
http://www.esdp.info/Links-of-Interest.100.0.html
European Society for Developmental Psychology. With useful developmental psychology links.
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/aboutdyslexia.html
British Dyslexia Association. With links to information about dyslexia.
http://www.personalityresearch.org/attachment.html
Attachment Theory. Information about the theory, with references and links.

Sleep and dreams
http://www.sleephomepages.org/
Sleep Home Pages. A portal to many web sites with information about sleep.
http://www.sleepnet.com/
Sleepnet. Many links to sites about sleep, sleep disorders, and dreams.
http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/
Dreamresearch. Information about using content analysis to study dreams.

Mental health
http://psychcentral.com/
PsychCentral. Mental health network, with information and support networks for mental health.
http://www.aedweb.org/eating_disorders/index.cfm
Academy for Eating Disorders. Information about all eating disorders.
http://www.bacp.co.uk/
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. With many links.
http://rebt-cbt.net/
REBT–CBT. Rational emotive behaviour therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy, with podcasts and articles.
http://www.apahelpcenter.org/
APA Help Center. American Psychological Association's brochures, tips, and articles on psychological and emotional issues.
http://www.stress.org/
The American Institute of Stress. Clearinghouse for information on all stress-related subjects.

Research resources
http://www.surveymonkey.com/Default.aspx
SurveyMonkey. An on-line site to create surveys.
http://www.randomizer.org/
Research Randomizer. For assigning experimental participants or subjects randomly to treatment conditions.
http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/
Psychology Experiments on the Internet. Participate, or collect your own data.
http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html
Psychological Research on the Net. Categorized list of experiments on the internet to participate in.
http://pics.psych.stir.ac.uk/
Psychological Image Collection at Stirling. Including a database of faces for use in research.
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
UK Data Archive. The largest UK collection of social sciences digital data.
http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/
Social Survey Question Bank. Examples to assist with the design of new survey questionnaires.
http://www.apa.org/psyccritiques/
PsycCRITIQUES. American Psychological Association database of reviews of psychology books.
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm
Statnotes. Useful information about multivariate statistics.

Ethics
http://www.apa.org/ethics/
APA Ethics Office. Ethical guidelines issued by the American Psychological Association.
http://www.bps.org.uk/the-society/ethics-rules-charter-code-...
Ethics and Code of Conduct. Ethical guidelines issued by the British Psychological Society.
http://neuroethics.upenn.edu/
Neuroethics. Ethical issues emerging from different branches of clinical and basic neuroscience.

Careers
http://www.bps.org.uk/careers/areas/areas_home.cfm
Careers in Psychology. Advice from the British Psychological Society.
http://www.apa.org/students/brochure/brochurenew.pdf
Careers for the Twenty-first Century. Forty-page booklet from the American Psychological Association.
http://psych.hanover.edu/gradframe.html
Career Decision Aids List of links to web pages useful for psychology careers advice.

Prominent psychologists
http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/research/ANAUT.html
Biographies of Major Contributors to Cognitive Science. Expanded from Companion to Cognitive Science (Blackwell, 1988).
http://www.psychwww.com/books/interp/toc.htm
Interpretation of Dreams. Full text on-line version of Sigmund Freud's book.
http://www.freud.org.uk/
Freud Museum. Site of the Sigmund Freud Museum in London.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/james.html
William James. Massive site dedicated to this pioneer of US psychology.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html
Carl Jung. Biography and description of Jung's theories.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html
Abraham Maslow. Biography and description of his theory of the hierarchy of needs.
http://www.maslow.org/main.php
Maslow Nidus. Collection of papers, portions of books, and biography of Abraham Maslow.
http://www.piaget.org/index.html
Jean Piaget Society: Information about the Swiss developmental psychologist.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/skinner.html
B. F. Skinner. A biography of and a description of Skinner's work.
http://www.nrogers.com/carlrogers.html
Carl Rogers. Biographical pages about Carl Rogers and the humanistic psychology movement.

Miscellaneous
http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/index.html
Kinsey Institute. For Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
http://eprints.assc.caltech.edu/
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. With a searchable list of free articles.
http://fisher.osu.edu/marketing/scp/
Society for Consumer Psychology. With additional links.
http://www.institute-shot.com/hypnosis_and_health.htm
Hypnosis and Health. Description of hypnosis, its history and health applications.
http://www.institute-shot.com/hypnosis_pain_newlook.htm
Hypnosis and Pain. Summary with links to hypnotic analgesia research.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/Mind/
Mind and Body: René Descartes to William James. Full-text book by Robert H. Wozniak (1992).
http://www.behavior.org/
The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. With information on behaviour analysis.