Psychology
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- Beautycheck
- Details a research project at two universities in Germany on facial attractiveness. Includes why some faces are considered more attractive, average faces, morphing of images, and social perceptions.
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- Being Left Handed
- Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.
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- Classics in the History of Psychology
- Offers full texts of documents significant in the history of psychology by author or by topic. Includes ancient, medieval/renaissance, and modern thought; behaviorism, cognition, intelligence testing, personality, and social psychology.
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- Epsych: Journeys in Mind
- Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
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- Extrasensory Perception
- Provides synopsis of psychological research from a professor of psychology. Includes whether it really exists, claims of ESP, perception versus pretention, and experiment results.
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- Frontline: What Jennifer Saw
- Interview with Elizabeth Loftus, a forensic psychologist. Includes what happens to memory in a traumatic event, how juries are affected by eyewitness testimony, and why expert testimony is used in trials.
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- General Psychology
- Collection of articles for use in an introductory college course. Topics include neuropsychology, sensation and perception, learning and memory, emotion, language, personality, and psychological disorders.
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- Interference: The Stroop Effect
- Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.
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- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Research paper discusses various studies into what energizes, directs, and sustains human behavior. Includes existence, relatedness, growth, introversion, extroversion, and divergence in theories.
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- Personality Theories
- Discusses theories from experts such as Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Skinner. Each section includes a case study, biography, theory, therapy, and discussion.
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- Psybersite
- Student-created tutorials applying psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.
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- Social Psychology
- Explains what social psychology is and how it is used in research. Includes theories and methods, nature versus nurture, self-needs, belief systems, emotions, and collective behavior.
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- Stanford Prison Experiment
- Philip Zimbardo's website about his classic study. Contains a 42 page slideshow with videoclips of the original experiment with Zimbardo's commentary, points for discussion, and links to related sites.
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- The Classical Rorschach
- Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.
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- The Descent of Man
- Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
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- The IPIP-NEO
- Tests designed to educate the public about the five-factor model of personality. Includes long and short versions, and results for extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.
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- The Memory Exhibition
- Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.
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- The Mind
- Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
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- allPsych
- Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.
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- Loftus, Elizabeth F.
- Biography and University of Washington faculty page. Includes information on her books about the legal aspect of false memory syndrome, and articles on recovered memories.
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