These are links to some excellent websites related to psychology, neuroscience, genetics, statitics, and science writing.
- Google Scholar: I’ve been surprised at how few students know about this simple way to search for published scientific articles. It allows one to narrow the search date, provides the citation in several formats (e.g., APA, MLA, etc.), related articles, citation count, and can also often provide a pdf of the article. It also has several other features for narrowing your search. NB: The citations are not always 100% accurate in the format. There are several good videos on how to use Google Scholar properly. Here are a few: David Rice (3:42), Smart Student (25:58), Andy Stapleton (11:15).
- American Psychological Associaton: APA.org is a great resource for just about everything related to psychology. It has a publication data base with a good search funtion. It also provides information about educational opportunities and a very good job search function. As with my website, APA.org also has some interstesting interactive labs on cognition, individual differences, learning, sensation and perception, and social psychology.
- PsyToolkit: This is one of the best online resources for psychology. It contains a library of validated questionnaires (e.g., BFI-S, EQ, GAD-7) and experiments (e.g., Stroop task, go/no-go task, Iowa gamling task). It’s great for demonstrations, but students and faculty can create a free account and build experiements and collect data.
- The Decision Lab: This is a great resource for those interested in the science of decision making. It provides examples and easy-to-understand descriptions of heurtistics, biases, and fallacies. It also has a great page of podcasts on called the decision corner.
- Learn.Gentics: This is a beautiful website created by the University of Utah with several interactive features. It contains pages on the basics of genetics and epigentics, evolution, and neuroscience, sensory systems, memory and attention. It also has several pages on drugs and addiction, including the engaging interactive feature called mouse party. The was used in an actvity labs on my website).
- Individual Difference Research Lab: This website has a great collection of tests and questionnaire, some are validated assessments and others are just for fun. Students can take tests and receive results. This was used in an activity lab on my website.
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (APA referencing): There are several good online resources for learning about and creating references using APA style. I chose the one at Purdue University because it provides guidlines abut also has a APA reference generator. There are others that are similarly good such as Citation Machine and APA.org.
- The Genderbread Person: A great website for class discussions on sex and gender. It also contains excellent resources.
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