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Emotional Health and Wellbeing
Nervous System :: Humans

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.
Meta Description: [ A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory, by Karen Chambers, Saint Mary's College. From the Case Study Collection of the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. ]

allPsych - Virtual psychology classroom with topic synopses, disorders, dictionary, online tests, education and career information, news, and internet resources.
Meta Description: [ Over 2000 pages of psychology information. Definetely worth a visit! ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Beautycheck ]

Being Left Handed - Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.

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.

Color Matters - Learn how color affects appetite, vision, and energy conservation. Includes color's relationship to architecture and interior design.
Meta Description: [ Explore how color affects emotions, appetite, vision, sexuality, design, art, businss, marketing, and trends. Learn about color theories in art, nature, science and psychology. Bulletin board, global color survey, research, and more. ]

404 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.

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]
Meta Description: [ Swiss site on Criminal Profiling-Offender Profiling, Criminology, Law, Forensic Psychology/Schweizer Site ueber Criminal Profiling, Täterprofil, Täterprofile, Taeterprofilerstellung, Kriminologie, Recht, forensische Psychologie ]

Epsych: Journeys in Mind - Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
Meta Description: [ psychology, experimental psychology, mind, cognitive psychology, cognitive processes, thinking, human thinking, thought processes ]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Illusions Gallery - Collection of illusions which demonstrate the differences between visual perception and reality. Includes impossible figures, vases/faces, Poggendorff illusion, and negative afterimages.
Meta Description: [ Landrigan Visual Illusions Gallery. ]

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.]

404 Inference versus Observation - Teaches the difference between objectivity and interpretation in empirical study. Includes an exercise in evaluating and correcting a group of statements.

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.
Meta Description: [ What is intelligence and how can it be measured? Were you born brainy or can intelligence be learnt? ]

Interference: The Stroop Effect - Brief explanation and example of what happens in the brain when there is interference, also called the Stroop Effect.
Meta Description: [ A description of the Stroop Effect, known as interference. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Introduction to Learning - Classical Conditioning. ]

404 Learning To Learn in Psychology - Seminar materials include workbooks and lectures on theories, experiments, writing, and the philosophy of science.

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.
Meta Description: [ Left Right  Hemisphere Brain Processing altered states of consciousness meditation relaxation tapes ]

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.

Mind Survey - Explores personal perceptions of the mental ability of various types of minds. Surveys include harm, punishment, soul, liking, destruction, and happiness.

NASA.gov: Cognition Lab Tutorials - Five games teach about cognitive psychology. Includes recognition, mnemonics, recall, interference, and short-term memory.

Novita Kids: What’s Psychology all About? - Information about psychology, what it is and what other children say about it.

Personality and Kids - Tells about personality type and provides a questionnaire for parents to use in assessing a kid's personality.
Meta Description: [ The Personality Questionnaire for Kids will help you understand your child's behavior and promote optimal development. ]

Personality Theories - Discusses theories from experts such as Freud, Erikson, Piaget, and Skinner. Each section includes a case study, biography, theory, therapy, and discussion.

Psybersite - Student-created tutorials applying psychological concepts to a variety of topical issues such as the internet, sports fans, and advertising.

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.]

Psychology - Encyclopedia.com article on what the word means.
Meta Description: [ Free online encyclopedia - Search and browse 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia and dig deeper with over 35 million articles from HighBeam Research ]

Psychosocial Theory: Erikson - Analysis of Erikson's theory on personality development. Includes the seven stages and how one stage grows into the next.

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.
Meta Description: [ Racism and Psychology ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Risktaking.co.uk provides an introduction to the psychology of risk taking behaviour, and a scientific explanation why people take risks with their health and engage in high risk sports. ]

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.

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.

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.
Meta Description: [ Official web site of the Stanford Prison Experiment, a classic study on the psychology of imprisonment -- definitely worth a visit! ]

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

The Classical Rorschach - Explains who Hermann Rorschach was, his method of testing, European methods, and American schools. Includes differences and controversies.

500 The Emotion Home Page - Explore the different types of emotional research. Includes theories from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

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.

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.

The Memory Exhibition - Explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory. Includes games, tests, and experiments.
Meta Description: [ A major Exploratorium exhibition and website developed by the Exploratorium, explores the biological, psychological, and cultural aspects of memory--from personal experiences to breakthroughs in cognitive science. ]

The Mind - Overview of psychology, personality, emotions, intelligence, and memory. Includes surveys, facts, and features.
Meta Description: [ bbc.co.uk invites you to look inside the human mind: articles, factfiles and interesting psychological tests for you to take. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ Science of love and attraction, how to flirt and what makes us sexy to others ]

404 Thinking Creatively - Offers exercises in viewing problems in unusual, novel, or untypical ways. Includes a list of situations and instructions.

Visual Cognition Lab - Presents several videos used in cognition studies and the results of the studies. Includes change blindness and inattention blindness examples.
Meta Description: [ The Visual Cognition Laboratory Home Page at the University of Illinois (Daniel J. Simons). The page contains information about the lab, links to demonstrations, and other resources. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) ]