Interesting Psychology Resources

General Psychology Sites

• APA Writing Style Guide
• Online Psychology Resources
• Psychology Cartoons
• PsychCentral
  • PsychCentral’s Psychology & Mental Health News
• Psychology Today
• Psych Scholar (“A Collection of Web Resources for Psychological Scholars and Budding Psychological Scholars”)
• PsychWeb
  • Introduction to Psychology textbook
• Today in the History of Psychology

Clinical/Counseling

• Addiction Resource (Substance Use among College Students)
• Addiction Group (web guide with content created by journalists and medical professionals for people struggling with substance use disorders (SUD), alcohol use disorders (AUD), and co-occurring mental health disorders; discusses a variety of treatment options, rehab/recovery, and resources) – Preventing Substance Abuse in College
• AlcoRehab (Alcohol Abuse in College Students: The Dangers, Warning Signs, and Prevention Tips)
• Alcohol Counseling – Alcohol Help and Underage Drinking – Alcohol Help
• Am I an Alcoholic?
• College Mental Health
• The Mental Health Guide For College Students (Test Prep Insight)- current state of mental health among college students, resources for overcoming common mental health related challenges, and perhaps most importantly, tips for navigating distance learning and best practices for transitioning back to campus life post COVID-19.
• Collegiate Recovery Communities
• Comprehensive Guide to Drugs on Campus (Drugrehab.com)
• Detox: Take The First Step Towards Addiction Recovery – Rehab Spot
• Drug Abuse in College Students (ArkBehavioralHealth) – includes links to harm reduction strategies and guides, and general coping and wellness resources
• Gambling Addiction: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment (healthline.com)
• Goodtherapy.org
• Guide to Substance Abuse & Mental Health in College Students (American Addiction Center)
  • Free Virtual Support Meetings
• Hope Tracker (A 10-session crash course on addiction and a social community to support you forever)
• The health effects of too much gaming – Harvard Health Blog – Harvard Health Publishing
• Internet Gaming Disorder: Investigating the Clinical Relevance of a New Phenomenon – PubMed (nih.gov)
• Internet Mental Health (includes info on harmful or ineffective therapies)
• Maryland Addiction Recovery Center
• MentalHelp.Net
• Mental Health and Well-being for College Students
• Mental Health Issues Affecting Students in College and High School (University HQ)
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• National Rehab Centers
• Postpartum Depression
• Psychology.com
• Psychology Help Center (apa.org)
• PsyWeb (Depression and Mental Health Resource)

Cognition, Sensation, and Perception

• Exploratorium Online S&P Exhibits (check out Optical Illusions, Sound and Listening, and Light and Seeing)
• Sensation and Perception Tutorials
• Color Blindness (National Eye Institute) and other eye health information (including resources for teaching children about eye health)
• Cognition Laboratory Experiments
• Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions
• Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
• Monell Chemical Senses Center

Cross-Cultural / International Psychology

• The Focus of Cross-Cultural Psychology
• International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology
• International Beliefs and Values Institute
• Online Readings in Psychology and Culture
• Society for Cross-Cultural Research

States of Consciousness

• Dream Manual
• Lucid Dreaming
• Sleep Deprivation
• The International Association for Near-Death Studies
• Web of Addictions (Created by Dick Dillon)
• States of Consciousness

Development & Learning

• American Association on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
• Asperger’s Syndrome
• Autism Facts (CDC)
• Cerebral Palsy (article), Cerebral Palsy Guide
• Devpsyc.org
• Psychology and Aging
• Society for Research in Child Development
• Society for Research in Adult Development
• Pre-K to 12 Education (apa.org)

Intelligence

• Buros Center for Testing
• Intelligence (hosted by Psychology Today)
• Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns

Neuropsychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Neuropsychology Central
• Society for Neuroscience

Research, Analysis, and Writing

• APA Ethics Code
• APA Guidelines for Research with Animals
• APA Avoiding Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism
• APA Student Paper Setup Guide
• Educational Research Basics
• Evidence of Quack Science
• OSL Open Stats Lab
• Purdue Online Writing Lab APA Sample Papers
• Pitfalls of Data Analysis
• Research Randomizer – Generates number sets for random sampling and random assignment

Social Psychology

• Project Implicit: Implicit Association Tests (find out your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, mental health, political candidates, and other topics)
• The Stanford Prison Experiment
• Social Psychology Network
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Participate in non-SMCM Psychological Research

• Social Psychology Network – Links to over 150 of web-based experiments, surveys, and other social psychology studies looking at interpersonal relationships, social perception, beliefs and attitudes, personality, judgment and decision making, and many others.
• Hanover College Psychology Department – Links to dozens of experiments looking at biological psychology, cognition, consumer psychology, developmental psychology, emotions, forensic psychology, health psychology, and many more.

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• APA Psychology Monitor
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• Famous Historical Figures in Psychology
• Highlights in Psychological Research (apa.org)
• In the news (apa.org)
• Browse All Issues of Psychological Science Agenda (apa.org)
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• 10 Books Psychology Students Should Be Reading | Psychology.org