The Many Faces of Psychological Research in the 21st Century
- Online book outlining the current state of knowledge and activity. Includes coping and health, personality, intelligence and cognition, sensation and perception, human development, and psychopathology.
- http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/faces/index_faces.php

PsychLab On-line
- Provides real and simulated interactive psychology experiments. Includes space perception, reaction time, split-brain syndrome, and classical conditioning. [Requires free Shockwave plug-in.]
- http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/johnchay/index.htm

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.
- http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/

Ingenious: Body Image
- Explores the mental picture of one's own physical appearance, and how it is affected by weight, race and culture, cosmetic body modifications, and adornments.
- http://www.ingenious.org.uk/Read/Identity/BodyImage/

Psychology
- Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.
- http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/p/psychlgy.asp

Inference versus Observation
- Teaches the difference between objectivity and interpretation in empirical study. Includes an exercise in evaluating and correcting a group of statements.
- http://www.mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/psych1.htm

Correlation
- Examines the relationships between variables in psychological studies. Includes an exercise in which students determine the correlation between two variables and offer possible explanations.
- http://www.mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/psych3.htm

Thinking Creatively
- Offers exercises in viewing problems in unusual, novel, or untypical ways. Includes a list of situations and instructions.
- http://www.mcckc.edu/longview/ctac/psych6.htm

The Descent of Man
- Covers the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's four-part radio series on neo-Darwinism.
- http://www.abc.net.au/science/descent/

Mind Survey
- Explores personal perceptions of the mental ability of various types of minds. Surveys include harm, punishment, soul, liking, destruction, and happiness.
- http://mind.wjh.harvard.edu/mindsurv.html

Introduction to Learning: Classical Conditioning
- Explains how automatic responses to smells, sounds, and situations develop. Includes Pavlov's dogs, the Skinner box, and behavior modification.
- http://mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap4/chap4d.htm

Left vs. Right - Which Side Are You On?
- Offers a test to find out which brain hemisphere is dominant and what that means. Includes logical vs. intuitive, sequential vs. random, and symbolic vs. concrete processing.
- http://brain.web-us.com/brain/LRBrain.html

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.
- http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/regsys/maslow.html

Spirituality and Western Psychology
- Explores the studies of transpersonal and humanistic psychology. Includes Maslow's hierarchy, subjective experience, social forces, brain functions, and the unconscious mind.
- http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~greg.c/psych.html

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.
- http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/5/j5j/IPIP/

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.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dna/interviews/loftus.html

Visual Cognition Lab
- Presents several videos used in cognition studies and the results of the studies. Includes change blindness and inattention blindness examples.
- http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html

Psybersite
- Student-created tutorials applying psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.
- http://www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/

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.
- http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/

Criminal Profiling Research
- Swiss criminologist discusses what profiling is, how it's done, criminal types, and case analysis. Includes articles, research, news and updates, links to international law enforcement agencies, and discussion board. [English and Deutsch]
- http://www.criminalprofiling.ch/

Implicit Association Test
- Offers online tests of unconscious preferences between racial groups, age groups, sexuality, political candidates, and associations between gender and science or gender and career. [Requires English proficiency.]
- https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

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.
- http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/socpsy.html

Humanistic Psychology Overview
- Explains what this 'Third Force' is, how it originated, and what it's impact is on the field of psychology. Includes methods of inquiry, psychotherapies, and links to additional reading.
- http://ahpweb.org/aboutahp/whatis.html

A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory
- As the defense attorney, review testimony and decide if your client is the victim of mistaken identity. Includes links to cited sources and questions to assist in making a decision.
- http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/memory/memory.html

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.
- http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=15

Interference: The Stroop Effect
- Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.
- http://www.apa.org/science/stroop.html

Intelligence
- Learn what it is and how it can be measured. Includes male versus female brains, whether people are born brainy, what emotional intelligence is, and if IQ tests are accurate.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/intelligence/

Illusions Gallery
- Collection of illusions which demonstrate the differences between visual perception and reality. Includes impossible figures, vases/faces, Poggendorff illusion, and negative afterimages.
- http://dragon.uml.edu/psych/illusion.html

The Child Development Website
- Read about theories from Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mahler, and Erik Erikson. Includes different stages, phases, and subphases from each theory.
- http://www.childstudy.net/

Racism and Psychology
- Explores what prejudice and racism are, how prejudices and stereotypes develop, and why it's important to talk about these issues. Includes ten things you can do.
- http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/racism/homepage.html

The Memory Exhibition
- Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.
- http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/index.html

The Classical Rorschach
- Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.
- http://www.phil.gu.se/fu/ro.html

Personality Theories
- Discusses theories from experts such as Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Skinner. Each section includes a case study, biography, theory, therapy, and discussion.
- http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/perscontents.html

The Mind
- Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/index.shtml

Risktaking
- Discusses the psychology of taking risks. Includes what risk and risk-taking behavior are, chemical changes in the brain, how theories have changed, and psychological profiles of risk-takers.
- http://www.risktaking.co.uk/

The Science of Love
- Explores the three stages of love. Includes changes in the brain, how looks and smells affect choices, the science of flirting, and how feelings can be even stronger in teens.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/

Psychosocial Theory: Erikson
- Analysis of Erikson's theory on personality development. Includes the seven stages and how one stage grows into the next.
- http://www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/p109g/erikson.stages.%20html

What is a Personality/Social Psychologist?
- Explains what topics are studied, scientific approach, basic and applied research, and career options. Includes educational recommendations and requirements.
- http://www.spsp.org/what.htm

Epsych: Journeys in Mind
- Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
- http://epsych.msstate.edu/

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.
- http://www.prisonexp.org/

allPsych
- Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.
- http://allpsych.com/

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.
- http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/genpsy.html

NASA.gov: Cognition Lab Tutorials
- Five games teach about cognitive psychology. Includes recognition, mnemonics, recall, interference, and short-term memory.
- http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/cognition/tutorials/index.html

Personality and Kids
- Tells about personality type and provides a questionnaire for parents to use in assessing a kid's personality.
- http://www.personalitypage.com/kids.html

Novita Kids: What’s Psychology all About?
- Information about psychology, what it is and what other children say about it.
- http://kids.novita.org.au/content.asp?p=318#whats_psychology_all_about

Being Left Handed
- Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.
- http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/left.handed.html

Color Matters
- Learn how color affects appetite, vision, and energy conservation. Includes color's relationship to architecture and interior design.
- http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html