The following aren't specific to psychology, but they still are pretty darn funny
- Annals of Improbable Research: Improbable but true. This is also the place to access information about the annual Ig Nobel prizes.
- What the professor really means: You know those cryptic comments spouted by your professors? Here is what they really mean.
- ProfQuotes: Humorous quotes from university professors and high school teachers submitted by readers around the world.
- Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the Work of Monty Python: Need I say more?
- Piled Higher and Deeper: One of the best web comics out there. It is sooo true.
- XKCD : "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Also another one of my favorites. It frequently deals with university-level concepts. The one on statistical significance was CLASSIC!
Exploring Psychology: The site was designed to "a multimedia enriched, web-based laboratory manual that provides the end-user with a variety of hands-on laboratory practicals, (both local and hyperlinked), data simulations, and demonstrations."
PhobiaGuide.com - Phobias: A list of hundreds of phobias and their meanings.
PsychCentral: Provides a large list of psychology resources including a links to a comprehensive database of U.S. psychology schools, a link to a dream interpretation site and an ecopsychology site (I didn't even know there was sucha thing)
Personality
- ColorQuiz.com - The free five minute personality test!
- Personality Tests and Tools: This site provides a very large selection of personality tests including ones that determine your "Big Five" personality profile, your Myers-Briggs profile and your Visual Pattern Fluid Intelligence.
- Accident Proneness Test: Ever wonder how accident prone you are?
- The Bartle Test of Gamer Psychology: "This is the original Bartle Test, a player personality analyzer that classifies you as an explorer, socializer, killer or achiever. " Originally developed at a test for gamers that played Multi User Dungeons (MUDS), the test has been updated to be relevant to those who play Massively Multi-Player Online Games (MMORPGs)
History & Systems
- The Origins of Cognitive Thought
- History of Psychology Website: The site provides a gateway for teachers and students to over 1000 World Wide Web resources related to the history of psychology.
- Today in the History of Psychology: Database containing a collection of dates and brief descriptions of over 3100 events in the history of psychology.
- Barnard College's History of Psychology Collection: Barnard was the site of one of the very first psychology labs (est. 1906). The school is dedicated to the preservation of the history and apparatus from the early days of the Barnard College and this site reflects that dedication. I thought all of the ancient experimental appartus were preety cool.
- The Archives of the History of American Psychology: A service of the University of Akron, this resource serves as both an academic research library and a public portal into psychology's origins. This site hosts a photo gallery of the organization's large instrument and apparatus collection, featuring equiptment used by psychologists in the 20th century (kind of a crap shoot. some of the instruments and apparatus have pictures, others don't)
- Classics in the History of Psychology
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Aristotle's On Memory and Reminiscence
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Broca (1861a, English)
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Broca (1861b English)
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Ebbinghaus (1885-1913) Chapter 1
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Jones (1924)
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Pavlov (1927)
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Titchener (1898)
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Watson & Rayner (1920)
- Classics in the History of Psychology -- Watson (1913)
- Language and Mind. Noam Chomsky (1968)
Sensation and Perception Links
- Sensation and Perception Tutorial: An online tutorial covering some of the basic concepts in Sensation and Perception
- Sensation and Perception links: A faily extensive list of links to S&P demos and informtion
- Motion after effect - The waterfall illusion
- Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena: Another pagedemonstrating visual phenomena, and optical illusions« or »visual illusions.
- Stairway to Heaven Backwards
- BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Body - Senses Challenge
- Auditory illusion? | Tech Toggle - Its All About Technology
- Optical Illusions by Latisse - Even though it is hosted on a coupon website, this particular page consists of a list of links to some very interesting optical illusions. The page was suggested to me by the peer mentor of a local community center. I am posting the link on this page because it fits the content and in hopes that the kids who suggested this page to their mentor will receive the treat of a Friday party for their contributions to this website.
Gestalt Psychology Links
- History of Gestalt Psychology: Name pretty much describes the site.
- Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications: A therapy and personality based Gestalt theory website.
Consciousness
Drugs
- LSD - My Problem Child: This is an electronic and translated version of the book written by Albert Hofmann (the person who first synthesized LSD) describing his inadvertent discovery of the drug's psychoactive properties and the ramifications of that discovery on the culture of the 60's.
- The Bicycle Ride: This is a short film clip loosely based on Hofmann's description of his discovery of LSD. It was created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Hofmann's birth
- LSD Tested on British Troops: The military was considering the use of LSD as a weapon for disorienting and confusing enemy combatants. This film clip shows the results of one of their test trials using British soldiers. I still can't believe they gave men both LSD and bazookas
Sleeping and Dreaming
- Association for the Study of Dreams: Provides information on dreaming. Contains an art gallery, bulletin board, a journal, and searchable database devoted to the topic of dreams.
- Working with Dreams: Page devoted to helping people explore their dreams, using techniques such as free writing and free association. It also provides tips on how to remember your dreams.
- All About Sleep: The name says it all. This is an article describing the nature of sleep, species differences in sleep patterns, drug alternatives to sleeping and more.
Language (mainly animal language)
- Koko.org - Koko's World - Multimedia
- LRC New Home Page
- The Jane Goodall Institute: Founded by renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, the Jane Goodall Institute is a global nonprofit that empowers people to make a difference for all living things.
- Great Ape Trust, Des Moines, Iowa
- The Animal Communication Project
- "Animal Language Article"
- NPR A Voluble Visit with Two Talking Apes
- Co-fostering of ape and boy
- The Alex Foundation
- Aphasia A Language Disorder
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive and Psychological Sciences: A Cognitive Science site. Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mind in which Cognitive Psychologists, Computer Scientists, Linguists, and Philosophers participate to solve common problems.
CogSci Librarian: Find out about popular news stories about Cognitive Science and the intersection of CogSci, Communication Science, & Library Science.
Cognition and Memory - Summer 2004
Connectionist Implications for Processing Capacity Limitations in Analogies
Beautycheck - Home: Very interesting website on the psychology of beauty/attractiveness. It also provides an opportunity to participate in real research on beauty.
Mixing Memory: Like many blogs (including my own), this cognitive science blog hasnt been updated for quite a while. However, the content that is posted on the blog is still worth reading.
Object Recognition
- Image Understanding Laboratory: The imgae understanding laboratory of Professor Biederman
- Visual Cognition Lab: The link to the Visual Cognition Lab in the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. Here you can find information about Inattentional blindness, change blindness and other interesting cognitive phenomena. You can also see the videos used as stimuli in these and other experiments.
Subliminal Messages
- Subliminal Perception: An article explaining subliminal perception and some of the research examining it.
- Sex and Death Among the Ice Cubes: Website article describing subliminal messages in advertising
Parallel Distributed Processing Models Links
Warning - I was not able to find a website that presented this information more simply than I did in the lecture.
Attention
- Elizabeth F. Loftus University of Washington
- Anne Treisman: Anne Treisman is one of the leading researchers in the field of attention. She is probably best known for her attenuator model of attention. This is her home page.
- movie 15
- Stroop Test
Memory
- Memory and Reality
- Memory Memory Links
- Mind Tools - Techniques for improving your memory
- Mind Hacks: Essential sites for students
- Mental Heuristics Page
- The Memory Exhibition: This exhibition ran at the Exploratorium from 1998-1999 but because of popular demand they left up the site. It contains demos and information about memory.
- Sensory Store: Site posted by a professor for his Cognitive psychology class. Good overview of sensory store. He has even included demos.
- Memory Games: This site runs Java applets with which you can challenge and strengthen (maybe) your memory skills
Repressed/Reconstructed Memories and False Memories Links
- The Repressed Memory Controversy: A great discussion of the validity of repressed memories. However, this article is very slanted towards disbelief in the "recovery" of repressed memories in therapy. It was written by Elizabeth Loftus so keep the viewpoint in mind when reading this.
- False Memory: The website of the false memory foundation.
- The British False Memory Page: A website for the purpose of "reviewing the controversy surrounding "recovered memories" and false accusations of childhood sexual abuse."
- Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndromes: An article discussing the dangers of therapy designed to recover "repressed" memories. The article has a definite bias in that it is obvious the author is skeptical of the recovery of repressed memories. This is a good article for information supporting this side of the repressed memory controversy.
Eyewitness Memory & Eyewitness Testimony
- Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory: Site focuses on "research in eyewitness memory and identification, and many aspects of face recognition. In addition to being a research laboratory, the Laboratory offers instruction and research training for both graduate and undergraduate students."
- Faculty Eyewitness Memory Site: Website created by Gary Wells, a faculty member at Iowa State University. One of his research interests is Eyewitness Memory. On his website is a collection of links related to eyewitness memory.
Mental imagery
- An Introduction to Cognitive Maps
- Cognitive Mapping
- Dr. Diane - Visual Imagery
- Kosslyn home page
- Mental Imagery
- Mental Images Philosophical Psychology
- prof_chuck’s blog » cog ch8 Visual Imagery
Human Factors
- Bad Human Factors Designs: A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles.
Research Methods
- IRB Guidebook
- Shrinktank: Good site. Has online testing, links to sites where psychology software can be obtained, and other interesting links.
- Psychological Research on the Net: Contains links to known experiments on the internet that are psychologically related.
- Penn State Statistical Education Resource Kit -- Cartoons
- PHARM234ALesson3
Probability
- Workshop on experimental design
- The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time: A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
- The Carillon Online: April 12th - May 16th 2007
Creativity and Innovation
Creativity enhancing resources
- CREATIVITY WORKSHOP, writing, drawing, storytelling
- JTEv17n1- Lewis, Creativity—A Framework for the Design-Problem Solving Discourse in Technology Education
- NSF I+D workshop
- InnovationTools - Innovation, creativity and brainstorming resources from InnovationTools: All about the InnovationTools Web site - Tools to help you succeed and innovate in business!
- Thinking like a Genius: Techniques and strategies for thinking like a genius including examples
- Thinkertoys
Articles
- Creativity and Mental Illness
- These Boots Were Made for 22 M.P.H. - New York Times
- The Experts at the Periphery: Get Wired's take on technology business news and the Silicon Valley scene including IT, media, mobility, broadband, video, design, security, software, networking and internet startups on Wired.com
- ScienceDirect - Knowledge-Based Systems : Enhancing creativity through reorganising mental space concealed in a research notes stack
- :: Heldref Publications :: - Article
- Birth of a Gadget: Inside the Industrial Design Process
- J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine
- TOPIC Magazine
- Wired 13.02 Revenge of the Right Brain
- Can America Invent Its Way Back: "Innovation economics" shows how smart ideas can turn into jobs and growth—and keep the U.S. competitive.
- HowStuffWorks "Can brain damage lead to extraordinary art?": Brain damage and art may seem unlikely companions, but it turns out they have a relationship. Find out how brain damage and art come together.
Creative things
- -{ Hanttula.com }- -{ Your Home for Internet Fun™ }: This site is the home for fun destinations & collected fascinations from around the way as well as some unique & interesting exhibits and art projects.
- oneword.: graphic
- The Guerrilla Gardening Homepage
- The global hub for those who cultivate land as guerrilla gardeners. Let's fight the filth with forks and flowers.
- Scott Mutter: A More Perfect World -- Online Exhibit from the American Museum of Photography: An online exhibit of Surrational Images, photomontage works by Scott Mutter
- YouTube - Extreme Sheep LED Art
Creativity and Innovation groups/associations/institutes/businesses
Physio and the Brain
- Visible Human Project: They got a cadaver (I think someone on death row volunteered for the "honor") and sliced it into razor-thin pieces. Each piece was scanned and connected to the others in a massive file. The result? The world's first virtual human. When this project reaches completion you should be able to tour the human body from top to bottom, inside to outside.
- Virtual Hospital: Great pictures. Includes many dissections of the human brain.
Neuroscience
- Neurosciences on the Internet: A searchable and browsable index of neuroscience resources available on the Internet
- Neuroscience for Kids: This is actually a nice collection of neuroscience related links.
- Neuroscience Resources: A links page connecting to a variety of neuroscience resources such as national labs and societies, informational websites, and databases.
The Brain
- Guide to the Brain: A useful site explaining the parts of the brain and their functions. Nice pictures.
- Brain Explorer
- Brain Explorer - Neurological Control - Neurotransmitters
- BRAINMAPS.ORG - BRAIN ATLAS, BRAIN MAPS, BRAIN STRUCTURE, NEUROINFORMATICS, BRAIN, STEREOTAXIC ATLAS, NEUROSCIENCE
- Your Amazing Brain
- Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum
- Brain Mind Lecture 5 Temporal Lobes. Schizophrenia, Depression, Hallucinations - Google Video
- Learn.Genetics from the Genetic Science Learning Center
- NPR Can Thoughts and Action Change Our Brains
- NPR Clues to Depression Sought in Brain's Wiring
- Welcome to Brain Channels - Evolving Human Intelligence
- Wired News It's Not All in Your Head
- JoVE: About
- Top Pentagon Scientists Fear Brain-Modified Foes | Danger Room from Wired.com: There's concern in some corners of the U.S. military about enemy activities in sleep research, neuro-pharmaceutical performance enhancement, and brain-computer interfaces. And it's not coming from the Pentagon's scientific fringe,
Pseudoscience & Fraud
- Skeptic's Dictionary: Over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature.
- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: Contains links to the Skeptical Inquirer and articles investigating various paranormal claims.
- Fraud in Science (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
- Researcher admits fraud in grant data - The Boston Globe: In the worst case of scientific fakery to come to light in two decades, a top obesity researcher who long worked at the University of Vermont admitted yesterday that he fabricated data in 17 applications for federal grants to make his work seem more promising, helping him win nearly $3 million in government funding.
- Better Read That Again Web Hoaxes and Misinformation
- Pathological science
- James Randi Educational Foundation — Home Page
- Pseudoscience
- Quackwatch Home Page
- Science and Pseudoscience Review in Mental Health The Review
- The Flat-out Truth
- The MASSIVE database
- The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
- Cargo Cult Science
- Lost Tribes, Sunken Continents and Ancient Astronauts Tasaday Hoax
- Counter Intelligence - Dirty Work - Got Milk
Examples of Pseudoscience Websites
- Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - dihydrogen monoxide info
- Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms Of Pseudoscience
- Sabbatini, R.M.E. Phrenology the History of Cerebral Localization
- LE Magazine, May 2001 - Report Mercury Amalgam Toxicity
- Lip Balm Anonymous Home Page
- Wheat Grass - Our Herb of the Month
Psycoloquy: Site for the discussion of psychological issues brings the listener more-or-less weekly interviews with fascinating practitioners who work in and around the broad field of psychology. David has another interview podcast series on topics in Mental Health, Wellness and Psychotherapy called, “Wise Counsel”.
Writing
- UM-Dearborn - Mardigian Library - Citing Sources
- Common Errors in English
- Precise Edit: 10 Words to Avoid When Writing
- The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes
- Your source for quotations from famous people and literature. Search or browse over 22,000 quotations from thousands of authors. Includes the popular Quotes of the Day, Motivational Quotes of the Day, Quote Search, and Random Quotations pages.
- APA Press Release: The Anatomy of Sarcasm
Reading Journal Articles
- Find Articles: FindArticles.com is a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
- How to Read a Scientific Research Paper--
Degrees
- AcademicInfo: Online Degree Programs, Subject Guides and Resources
- Learn more about earning online degrees through online education and distance learning. Find over 25,000 hand-picked resources through our subject guides.
- Applying to Graduate School: Writing a Compelling Personal Statement - Psi Chi
- Your first step toward a graduate degree in psychology is to apply to graduate programs that are right for you. Your goal is to do everything possible to ensure admission to at leas
- Notes On The PhD Degree
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