Useful Psychology Links

Joe's Guide to Psychology Resources on the Web

Psychology Mega Sites:

Psychology "Mega" Sites contain a wealth of information for psychology students. They're excellent resources for browsing, researching specific topics of interest, or surfing for fun. The sites listed below are among the best we found.

• Hanover College's Psychology Department: Hanover is simply one of the best psychology resources available to undergraduates. Designed by John Krantz, it contains information on software, publishers, psychology tutorials, and graduate programs in psychology. Set aside an hour or two and explore Hanover. Be sure to visit General Psychology Links for Students

• The Social Psychology Network is a particularly well-maintained site with links to more than 5,000 psychology resources in all areas of psychology.
  
  
• Russ Dewey's PsychWeb continues to be an excellent resource. See his Megalist for others.
  
  
• Muskingum Department of Psychology: Muskingum has a great site, featuring many standard resources that you'd find at other mega sites, as well as interesting links to:
  • On Line Journals
  • Student Research Projects -- great for getting your own research project ideas!
    
    

• Psych Site : Psych Site is a public-service 'launch pad' to Net sites that may be of use to psychologists and those interested in the science of psychology. You won't find self-help or parapsychological links here.
• Athabasca University's Psychology Resources: Searchable links to a large number of psychology web sites organized by sub-field.
  
  

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There's a society for every psychological discipline. We provide some of the major ones. For a more extensive list, see Hanover.

• The American Psychological Association: Psychology's headquarters. Here, you'll find:
  • Student Information
  • How to Join the APA
  • What's New in the APA

• American Psychological Society, " the leading national organization dedicated solely to the science of psychology."
• Society for Neuroscience
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Society for Computers in Psychology
• Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• Society for Mathematical Psychology
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making

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• PsyScope: PsyScope is an interactive graphic system for experimental design and control on the Macintosh.
  
  
• Psychology Software Tools, Inc.: PST is brought to you by the makers of the MEL programming language. Here, you'll have a chance to download demos and software, and learn about MEL's predecessor, E-Prime.

• There used to be a CTI-Psychology site which housed "The Centre Directory of Psychology Software and Software Reviews" that was packed with software information. Some of this is still available within the web pages of LTSN Psychology. LTSN is packed with resources to support the teaching of psychology.
  
  
• Computers in Mental Health: Here, you'll find a database of software used in mental health profession, relevant books, articles, and membership information.

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Psychology Publishers/Books

• Psychological Assessment Resources: PAR publishes software, books, and other materials specifically developed for professionals in the fields of psychology, counseling, neuropsychology, and other related disciplines. Other points of interest:
  • Workshops
  • Ordering Information
  • Products Listed by Category
    
    

• Blackwell Publishers : Blackwell publishes textbooks, journals, and software. You can search for books by subject or by title, part of a title, or author.

• Guilford Publications: Guilford's home page allows you to search for books by subject, but you can also explore The Clinician's Toolbox, Videos, and Social Theory.

• Online Journals Here, Academic Press allows you to search for textbooks, journals, and product catalogs--among others.
• Psychology E-Journals:
Psychology journals at the click of a mouse.

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Psychology Tutorials

Below are a few tutorials we've reviewed. For an ever-growing list of tutorials, we highly recommend John Krantz's index of Psychological Tutorials and Demonstrations.

• Noteworthy psychology tutorials originally recommended by a now-defunct site include:

  • The Whole Brain Atlas
  • The Kiersey Temperment Sorter
    
    

• Athabasca University's Demonstrations and Tutorials : Here are some of the highlight's Joe culled from the Athabasca site:
  • The On Line Cognitive Lab
  • Mathematical Models of Human Memory
  • Living in a Social World--Web tutorials in social psychology from Miami Univ.
    
    

• The Internal Validity Tutorial: A great experimental design tutorial.

• Nancy Digdon's Critical Thinking in Psychology and the associated Critical Thinking Module

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Local Psychology Links

• Columbia's Psychology Department
  
  
• Your Guide to Getting into Grad School

Who is Joe? He's a Columbia grad who is now pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Joe produced the first version of this page several years ago, as a Student Technology Assistant. Since then, a succession of web-savvy undergraduates have helped to keep it going. The page was last updated on September 22, 2003.

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