Psychology resources

1. Associations
2. Directories and Search Engines
3. Journals Online
4. Selected Web sites

Department of Psychology & Sociology Web site

Associations

• American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 148,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.
• Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national and international level. The Association's mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare.
• Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology Psi Chi is the International Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to graduate and undergraduate men and women who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests, and who meet the minimum qualifications.
• Resources of Scholarly Societies: Psychology This huge international list includes links to the major professional associations in psychology as well as those in related fields.

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Directories and Search Engines

• INTUTE Psychology Gateway Browse sections such as animal psychology, forensic and legal issues, organizational psychology, personality psychology, and others. Or search using your own keywords.
• Mental Help Net Largest online mental health directory includes professional resources, information on disorders and treatments, and a reading room.
• Psych Web Psych Web contains information about APA style; full text versions of The Interpretation of Dreams and The Varieties of Religious Experience; a list of psychology journals on the web; brochures; information about careers, graduate schools, and tip sheets for psychology majors; mind tools; discussion pages; and other scholarly and self-help resources.
• Psychology links [BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources] Links to a wide variety of psychology resources on the web, including an online psychology encyclopedia and electronic journal with a United Kingdom focus.
• Psychology WWW Virtual Library Includes links to other psychology directories or guides on the Internet, lists of psychology journals, listservs, professional societies, library resources online, and other topics.
• PsychScholar by Hanover College Psychology Department Includes links to research resources as well as study aids, tutorials, demonstrations, and sites that address "provocative" topics.

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Journals Online

• American Journal of Psychiatry (Not available off campus)
• Electronic Journals and Periodicals from Hanover College Psychology Department A browsable alphabetical index of psychology periodicals.
• PsycLine: Your guide to psychology and social science journals on the web This web site provides links to sites for journals published in English, German, French, and Dutch. Most of the sites provide general information about the journal; some include tables of contents and abstracts, and a few contain the full text of articles. Search by keyword, or browse alphabetically or by subject.

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Selected Web sites

• Cyberlab for Psychological Research This resource can help you understand research methods, primary and secondary sources, and the structure of a typical journal article.
• Psychological Research on the Net from Hanover College Psychology Department A directory of Internet-based experiments in many aspects of psychology, including cognition, personality, and sensation and perception. Link to surveys and participate if desired. Many examples of web-based surveys on psychological topics.
• Psychology in the News The APA maintains this source of recent news articles related to psychological topics.
• Psychology Matters PsychologyMatters.org is a web-based compendium of psychological research that demonstrates the application and value of psychological science in our everyday lives. Within 19 content areas, individual and interrrelated studies, all of which found statistically significant effects and that have had important applications, are described.
• Simply Psychology Articles, lecture slides, and activities for multiple areas of psychology, targeted at A-level and undergraduate psychology students.

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