Prepare for the great adventure in Psychology!! Here you have links to some internet sites that can give you insight and knowledge of human psychology (oh yeah) and might be useful in doing school stuff.   Good surfing!

This page has links to:  professional psychology associations, sources of online data that could be used for student research, sites where you can participate in experiments, humor, scholarly journals & magazines, even more journals, large psychology sites (mega sites), information to help you perform research, self-help sites, sites especially designed for students (such as tutorials) , especially designed for teachers, and other interesting sites.   

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ASSOCIATIONS AND NEWSLETTERS:

American Counseling Association  http://www.counseling.org/

American Psychological Association (APA) http://www.apa.org/  
and articles from their monthly newsletter    http://www.apa.org/monitor/

American Psychological Society (APS) - who are they? http://www.psychologicalscience.org/

American Psychiatric Association  http://www.psych.org/

American Psychoanalytic Association  http://apsa.org/

American Educational Research Association  http://www.aera.net/

American Sociological Association   http://www.asanet.org/

National Association of School Psychologists  http://www.nasponline.org/

DATA FOR YOUR RESEARCH

Journal of Statistics Education Datasets http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.html

U. of Michigan National Election Studies (click on "download data and codebooks for free") http://www.umich.edu/~nes/

JASA Datasets: Carnegie-Mellon U.  http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/

CHILDES Child and Adult Language Transcripts (for advanced students) http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/

Federal Government Statistics   http://www.fedstats.gov/

General Data And Where to Find It http://www.robertniles.com/data/

General Social Survey (GSS) Data (for advanced students) this site has some general results and essential information on the GSS,  but, so far, you have to order the CD to get the actual usable data.   http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS99/index.html

National Center for Educational Statistics (could come in handy)  http://nces.ed.gov/

US Census  http://www.census.gov/

Data From Online Experiments  http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/Downloads/data.htm

EXPERIMENTATION SITES:

University of Mississippi - Be a participant in an Online experiment http://www.olemiss.edu/psychexps/

University of SAARLAND - More Online Experiments you can experience. http://www.uni-saarland.de/fak5/ronald/

University of Tübingen   http://www.psych.unizh.ch/genpsy/Ulf/Lab/WebExpPsyLab.html

Department of Psychology, University of Maine at Farmington- a long list of experiment sites! http://hua.umf.maine.edu/~mshea/psychology/psychurl.html

 Wadsworth-Thompson Publishers List of online experiments and studies http://www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/special_features/experiments_studies.html

HUMOR ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY

Charlotte's Humor Site http://www.erols.com/geary/psychology/

Go Fish  http://www.comics.com/comics/gofish/index.html

JOURNALS AND SIMILAR        Also More JOURNALS
(note:  Almost all of the journals you can access through these link are open, and free.  
However, you may encounter a few "subscriber only" journals too.)

APA Monitor on Psychology: A Good Source of General Information  http://www.apa.org/monitor/

American Counseling Association Newsletter  http://www.counseling.org/PressRoom/

Directory of Sources on Adolescents http://education.indiana.edu/cas/adol/adol.html

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)  http://jama.ama-assn.org/

Biomed Central part of a new trend toward free, peer reviewed/juried  online journals*.  
intro:  http://www.biomedcentral.com/  
search: http://www.biomedcentral.com/search/bmc/

Medscape online journal in psychiatry  http://www.medscape.com/Home/Topics/psychiatry/psychiatry.html

Major list of resources - actually from psych. central  http://www.psych-central.com/

PubMedCentral from the National Institutes of Heath,  a major source of access to free, online peer reviewed/juried research articles. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

Virginia Tech U. – Scholarly Communication Project – Electronic Journals http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/

The best list of online journals I know of:  Michigan State University List  (the journals  with the "globe" mark are free and open online)  http://er.lib.msu.edu/ejour.cfm

More JOURNALS

MEGA SITES:  BIG MULTI-PURPOSE SITES

Psych Central - Major Site includes educational links (It took me a while to access this site.) http://psychcentral.com/

Psych WEB - Big Psych Link in the Sky http://www.psywww.com/

Social Science Information Gateway - Psychology and Many Other Social Science Resources http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/

Sociology Links Princeton  http://www.sociolog.com/

SocioWeb  http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb/

HOW TO DO RESEARCH:

Ethics Learning Material
http://onlineethics.org/reseth/

Practical Advice/Voice of Experience  http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rumsby/ARES.html

Social Research:  Using the Web for (information center)  http://www.socsciresearch.com/

Writing papers in APA style http://www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm

SELF-HELP SITES:

About.com  Mental Health Info  http://mentalhealth.about.com/health/mentalhealth/

Mental Health Net -- Educational Information  plus Self-help sites (It took me a while to access this site.) http://mentalhelp.net/

Psych Central - Major Site includes self-help (It took me a while to access this site.) http://psychcentral.com/

MOSTLY FOR STUDENTS:

APA Free Public Information Booklets  http://www.apa.org/pi/publicat.html

Exploratorium - Fun Learning Sites http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/psychology.html

Find Your Online Graduate School (a site by this author) http://onlinegraduateschool.tripod.com/

Hanover U. (Indiana) Psych Tutorials  http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/tutor.html

Harvard U. / MIT Whole Brain Atlas http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

Human Genome Project DNA Learning Center http://vector.cshl.org/

U. of Kansas Psych Links http://www.psych.ku.edu/

Text by Morris - Psych Quizzes (Click on chapter quiz link at left) http://www.prenhall.com/~bookbind/pubbooks/morris/chapter1/deluxe.html

U. Of Oklahoma psychology tutorials http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/tutor.html

WebQuest: Web based learning experience in psychology experimentation  http://psychexperiment.tripod.com/

MOSTLY FOR TEACHERS:

APA-Society for Teaching Psychology http://teachpsych.lemoyne.edu/

APS Teacher Resources - Articles on Teaching Psych http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/teaching.html

WebQuest Page - Provides templates and instructions for developing interactive lessons using internet resources - by Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University http://webquest.sdsu.edu
 
University of Mississippi - Could your students BE THE EXPERIMENTERS http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/InstrOnly_Page/instructors.htm

WORTHWHILE OTHER SITES

Adolescent Psychology Resources http://education.indiana.edu/cas/adol/adol.html

APA Online, Information for Students  http://www.apa.org/ed/student.html

William Calvin – U. of Washington Professor – Includes full text of some of his many terrific books, especially concerning the nervous system http://williamcalvin.com/

Albert Ellis Institute -  (Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET))  http://www.rebt.org/

History of Psychology: Classic Works  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/author.htm

History of Psychology (in Biography) Pages, Muskingum College: http://muskingum.edu/~psychology/psycweb/history.htm

State Licensing Boards: http://www.asppb.org/

National Institute of Mental Health    http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

Personality Theorists, Prof. Boeree, Shippenburg U.  http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/

Physiology Link:  The Harvey Project  http://harveyproject.org/

Positive Psychology (sounds like a very positive idea!!) http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/

PsychCrawler is the APA specialized psychology search engine http://www.psychcrawler.com/

Social Psychology: Journals, Research Teams, Degree Programs. etc. http://www.socialpsychology.org/

Psychology links at SUNY- New Paltz  http://www.newpaltz.edu/psychology/index.html#links

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