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PSYC - Psychology Research Guide

Research strategies and links to information resources related to psychology

Recommended Psychology Websites

American Psychological Association (APA)
Official web site of the American Psychological Association.
National Institute of Mental Health
The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure.
Psych Central
Mental health resources for professionals and consumers.
Classics in the History of Psychology
This site provides access to approximately 450 original documents . . broad range of disciplines, among them biology, philosophy, education, ethics, child development, sociology, and history in addition to psychology.

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Consider the following:

Anyone can build a website, experts and non-experts alike.
Some information may be outdated or even hazardous to the reader.
Web searches often retrieve more than 1,000,000 results, many of which are irrelevant to your research.
Website publishers may be biased and have an agenda, or may be trying to sell you something.
Since no one supervises the Internet, there's a lack of basic quality and usability standards.
Website information is not reviewed the same way as published works (books, scholarly articles, encyclopedias).
The Internet often functions as a place for people to share their unfiltered opinions.
Scholarly sources are rarely available for free. The library subscribes to research databases that provide access to high-quality research at no cost to you.

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Subjects: Psychology