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Psychology: Websites

This guide covers basic resources that may be useful to the Psychology Department.

Meta Sites

  • Athabasca University Psychology Resources
  • Encyclopedia of Psychology
  • Social Psychology Network
  • About.com - Psychology Popular and well organized site, with information about the field, psychological theories, and experiments.
  • PsychScholar "A collection of Web resources for psychological scholars and budding psychological scholars".

Research in Psychology

  • Guide to the Fields in PsycINFO/PsycARTICLES
  • VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation Has explanations and online tools demonstrating a variety of statistical tests and procedures. Includes tools for calculating probabilities, frequencies, chi-square tests, correlations and regressions, t-tests, ANOVA, and more. Note: Because of the JavaScript used, the author recommends using Firefox, Safari, or Chrome web browsers for this site, rather than Internet Explorer.
  • Classics in the History of Psychology This is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.
  • History of Psychology Archives Links to historical reviews of important figures in the history of psychology, and relevant links to off-campus biographical sites.
  • The Personality Project These pages are meant to guide those interested in personality theory and research to the current personality research literature. Information about scholarly societies and graduate training programs in personality is also provided. Course syllabi from personality theory and research courses are being added gradually.
  • Online Readings in Psychology and Culture Designed to serve as a resource for researchers, teachers, students, and anyone who is interested in the interrelationships between Psychology and Culture, the site inlcudes essays, reflections, and data-oriented segments that reflect current trends and discussions in cross-cultural psychology and related fields. A central goal of ORPC is to complement other resources (textbooks, handbooks, journals) and to provide an open and updated forum.

Thanks to Marshall University Library

Much of the information from this LibGuide was borrowed from Marshall University Libraries. Thanks!

Theories and Theorists

  • Personality Theories and Theorists
  • Classics in the History of Psychology - Topic Index
  • B.F. Skinner Foundation The Foundation promotes the science founded by B. F. Skinner and supports the practices derived from that science. On this website, the Foundation features exceptional examples of the science in practice.
  • "Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it" by John B. Watson. Text of the 1913 "Psychological Review" article by the man who who established the psychological school of behaviorism after doing research on animal behavior.
  • "Existential Theory of Carl Rogers" An archived chapter from a previous edition of A First Look at Communication Theory by Em Griffin, published by McGraw-Hill.
  • "Evolutionary Psychology - a primer" Page by Leda Cosmides & John Tooby, of the University of California-Santa Barbara Center for Evolutionary Psychology.
  • Interbehavioral Psychology - Jacob Robert Kantor "From the interbehavioral perspective, self-actional causes, whether fictional events (e.g., mentalism) or fictional powers attributed to otherwise actual events (brain as cause of behavior), are anathema to science of psychology."
  • C. G. Jung Page This is "dedicated to exploring questions of meaning which engage the individual as well as the varied cultures in which we live."