Links of Interest to Psychology

Professional Links

Student Organizations
• Psi Chi: The national Honor Society in Psychology
• Eastern Psychological Association
• Virginia Psychological Association
• National Conference on Undergraduate Research
• National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse: A few SBC students have presented their Independent Research through this forum.

Professional Societies
• American Psychological Association (APA) - One of the primary sites of our discipline.  Yes, there are the people to blame for APA writing style.
• APA Monitor Online - A good online magazine with articles and info on upcoming events in psychology.
• American Psychological Society (APS)
• American Counseling Association
• Jean Piaget Society - Devoted to the ideas and research of the prominent developmental psychologist, always a source of interesting material.

Graduate Schools
• Psychology Graduate Applicant Portal: A great place to get started on grad schools
• Psych Web: One of the most comprehensive sites around. Look for information on graduate schools, any Psych dept on the web, or general advice for ANY psych major.
• Educational Testing Service: Info on all kinds of entrance exams across disciplines
• GRE online: The Graduate Records Exams
• Kaplan: Grad school and Law school testing

Professional Schools
• Kaplan: Grad school and Law school testing
• Law School Admission Council .... the LSAT
  

Major Psychology Disciplines

Abnormal Psychology
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependency: Site with information and referral information.
• The Emperor Norton Page:  Ask yourself if you can be considered insane if everyone goes along with your delusions. Answer that, then go here.

Cognitive Psychology
• Koko: Koko like talk sunbeam apple

Developmental Psychology
• APA Division 20: Adult Development and Aging: Division 20 is dedicated to the study of Adult development and aging and offers many resources and info about grad programs in this area
• Developmental Theorists: A nice resourse for on-line connections to the primary theorists in the field
• Coping strategies for LD students: You need more than just extra time...here is a nice resource with study and test-taking strategies for you.
• LD online: A website educators, parents and children about learning disabilities
• 50 Tips for Adult Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

General Psychology
• The Psi Cafe: Nice place to browse and see what's going on in Psych
• Psychology Virtual Library: When in doubt....start here

Physiological Psychology
• Grand Illusions: A nice set of optical illusions related to S & P
• Society for Neuroscience
• Rx List: An excellent site which provides easy to understand information about many of the drugs used in treatments today.
• The Whole Brain Atlas: Make sure you have enough ROM to see the images, but a great experience from Harvard

Statistics and research
• Little Book of Statistics: Great site from Gerard Dallal

Social Psychology
• Social Psych Network: An extremely comprehensive site dedicated to social psychology

Women in Psychology:
• Women's intellectual contributions: An excellent site with contributions from students in Linda Woolf's Seminar class at Webster University

Search Engines

• Google: Great engine
• Google Scholar: Although still being beta tested...a nice way to shortcut through all the random crap to find academic sources.
• PsychCrawler: One of the better search engines
• Peterson's: Grad/Law School Search Engine

Links for fun

Student Picks
• Mapquest: When lost in the physical sense...go here.
• Merriam-Webster On-line: Dictionary and Thesaurus on-line
• Language translators: Can't hablas espanol? Help is here for MANY languages
• PuzzleMaker: Creates puzzles of all kinds...great way to create a study guide
• E-cards: Blue Mountain Arts electronic card site.
• Barnes & Noble Bookstore: On-line bookstore, great selection.
• Rotten Tomatoes: Check here before venturing out to the movies

Just Because We Can
• Darwin Awards: A tip of the hat to those individuals who select themselves out of the gene pool
• StrongBad Emails: Trust us...it's worth a trip.
• Voices in my Hand: For the irreverant and edgier people
• For your vast wasteland of knowledge: Here is everything you didn't need to know.
• Useful Research Phrases: Stuck with bad data and no findings? This tongue in cheek site may help out.
• On-line personality/IQ tests: A very fun site as long as you don't take it too seriously (Try the Kingdomality test for an interesting perspective.
• Penguin Batting Practice: Please don't tell PETA about this...
• For all of us: Not quite as good as sniffing Pla-Doh...but enjoying nonetheless.
• More on-line tests for fun

Regional Colleges
• Hampden-Sydney College
• Hollins University
• Mary Baldwin College
• Randolph College
• Lynchburg College
• University of Virginia
• Washington and Lee University
• Virginia Military Institute