The Resource Shelf blog chose the Network as its "resource of the week." You'll see why if you visit this well organized, well maintained site. I can't improve on Shirl Kennedy's profile of the site, so I'll reproduce it here. ____JH
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Resources: Social Psychology Network
By Shirl Kennedy, Deputy Editor
We like tightly focused resources that save us time and effort by doing a good job of covering a particular subject area in depth. This week, we take a look at one such resource.
Social Psychology--Database
Source: Scott Plous, Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University (CT)
Social Psychology Network (SPN)
The centerpiece of this attractively designed site is a searchable database of more than 11,000 annotated Web links related to psychology. You can do a quick keyword search from the home page or use an advanced search form that, while initially a bit confusing, allows for some interesting options. If you simply want to browse all the sites in specific categories, choose the second radio button -- Display all the links in the category below -- and then check the categories of interest in the next section of the form. If you want to search, enter your keyword in the text box in the first section of the form and select a the radio button next to Search for term in the categories below . Again, use the check boxes to indicate categories of interest in the second section of the form -- organizations, academic units, publications, persons, college courses or syllabi, software, online study/survey/experiment, "Other types of websites" or "All of the Above." Finally -- in the third section -- dropdown menus, including Boolean options, allow you to restrict your search to:
+ Sites with an interactive forum
+ Sites with an email listserv
+ Sites with searchable information
+ Web guide, directory, or portal
+ Web pages only
+ PDF documents only
+ Links on a specific SPN site
SPN sites include:
+ Society for Personality and Social Psychology ("With over 4,000 members, the Society is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world.")
+ Society of Experimental Social Psychology ("The Society of Experimental Social Psychology is a scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychology.")
+ UnderstandingPrejudice.org ("In these pages you will find more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations.")
+ Research Randomizer ("This web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions. Research Randomizer can be used in a wide variety of situations, including psychological experimentation, medical trials, and survey research. The program uses a JavaScript random number generator to produce customized sets of random numbers.")
+ Stanford Prison Experiment ("What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.")
+ The Jigsaw Classroom ("...a cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience.")
+ JoeChemo.org ("Meet Joe Chemo, a camel who wishes he'd never smoked cigarettes.")
On the left side of the home page, you'll see current "Psychology Headlines From Around the World." These are archived back to 2004 and keyword searchable; you can search them all or use dropdown menus to restrict your search to stories from the previous week, month or year. As of Tuesday this week, the archive contained some 934 articles.
Also here:
+ Social Psychology Links by Subtopic , covering "prejudice and discrimination, gender, culture, social influence, interpersonal relations, group behavior, aggression, and more."
+ An online directory of "more than 1,000 professional profiles of psychologists who specialize in social or personality psychology."
+ Interactive forums , for students, professionals, job seekers, etc.
+ A variety of links toward the bottom of the lefthand navigation bar that lead to information about such things as psychology textbooks , Ph.D. program rankings , professional organizations and conferences , and careers .
The Social Psychology Network and its partner sites are supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants. If you really like this site, you can make a tax-deductible contribution . - Shirl [ResourceShelf]
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