March 29

Coping With A Disaster Or Traumatic Event [Real Player, Pdf]

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Coping with a Disaster or Traumatic Event [Real Player, pdf]

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/mentalhealth/

This very helpful website addresses the toll disasters can have on mental health and provides healthy ways to cope. The site includes information on how parents can talk to their children, teachers can talk to their students, and how adults can talk to each other about a disaster. One good place to start is the link "Tips for Talking About Disasters", which is located under the heading titled "Information for Individuals and Families". The link "Video: Coping with a Traumatic Event" allows visitors to watch, listen, or watch with captions, a short podcast that explains how people react differently to traumatic events. The Virginia Tech shootings is the event used to explain how people's reactions can vary widely. A series of downloadable tip sheets, called "After the Storm", are available for adults, parents of children, and parents of youth, in Spanish, English and Vietnamese, each with their own link, found in the middle of the page. Under the heading titled "Information for Specific Groups", at the bottom of the page, are three links to information for "Responders", "Health Professionals", and "States and Planners". [KMG] From Scout Report

October 20

Society For The Psychology Of Women, APA Division 35

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APA Division 35: Society for the psychology of women
Division 35 of the American Psychological Association is designated 'the Society for the Psychology of Women'. It comprises a structure within which women and men can share ideas on the teaching and research of psychology in relation to the issues of women. The page includes a link to the journal 'Psychology of Women Quarterly', which is free to members of the division, as well as a publication called 'Feminist Psychologist'. The site should be useful for students, teachers and researchers. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.apa.org/about/division/div35.html
September 29

Cognitive Fun

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Cognitive fun This website provides several Adobe Flash-based cognitive science experiments designed to illustrate facilities such as attention, perception, task execution, item span, and general memory. Each experiment/demonstration provides further information about its provenance, and users may create an account to store their scores. The site should be useful as a teaching aid. Intute.ac.uk
http://cognitivefun.net
August 10

Centre For Appearance Research

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Centre for Appearance Research
The Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) undertakes psychological and interdisciplinary research in appearance, disfigurement and related studies. CAR is based within the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Current research projects include a programme funded by the Healing Foundation, "Identifying factors and processes contributing to successful adjustment to disfiguring conditions", and a CLIC-Sargent funded project on "Altered appearances during treatment for cancer: a qualitative study using photography to explore the experiences of adolescent patients and their families". Further information is available on PhD research projects and other CAR projects. The site outlines the mission, aims and objectives of CAR, its membership, activites, and funding. Guidelines for conducting appearance research, CAR newsletters, FAQs, details of CAR publications and links to related support groups and organisations can be accessed here. Intute.ac.uk
http://science.uwe.ac.uk/research/homePage.aspx?pageId=carHome
June 24

Society For Philosophy And Psychology

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Society for philosophy and psychology

This society is based in the United States. It describes itself as a society for 'philosophically interested psychologists and psychologically interested philosophers'. It aims to forge connections between philosophers and psychologists. Details are provided for its annual meeting, membership requirements, and prizes given by the society. This site should be useful for all psychologists. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.socphilpsych.org/

April 15

Do Choices Affect Or Reflect Preferences?

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Rationalization and Cognitive Dissonance: Do Choices Affect or Reflect Preferences? (PDF; 65 KB)
Source: M. Keith Chen, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management

Cognitive dissonance is one of the most influential theories in social psychology, and its oldest experiential realization is choice-induced dissonance. Since 1956, dissonance theorists have claimed that people rationalize past choices by devaluing rejected alternatives and upgrading chosen ones, an effect known as the spreading of preferences. Here, I show that every study which has tested this suffers from a fundamental methodological flaw. Specifically, these studies (and the free-choice methodology they employ) implicitly assume that before choices are made, a subject’s preferences can be measured perfectly, i.e. with infinite precision, and under-appreciate that a subject’s choices reflect their preferences. Because of this, existing methods will mistakenly identify cognitive dissonance when there is none. This problem survives all controls present in the literature, including control groups, high and low dissonance conditions, and comparisons of dissonance across cultures or affirmation levels. The bias this problem produces can be fixed, and correctly interpreted several prominent studies actually reject the presence of choice-induced dissonance in their subjects. This suggests that mere choice may not be enough to induce rationalization, a reversal that may significantly change the way we think about cognitive dissonance as a whole.

See: And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw (New York Times)

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April 06

Forensic Psychology Forum UK

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Forensic psychology forum UK
This forum is based in the UK and provides an arena for those with questions (and answers) on the topic of forensic psychology. Subjects include careers, opportunities for professional training, publications, events, and links to further resources. This forum should be useful for teachers, students and researchers. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.forensic-psychology-forum.co.uk/

January 18

Directory Of Psychology Resources That Have RSS Feeds

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PsychAntenna
PsychAntenna is hosted and created by an Australia-based psychologist. It aims to be a directory of psychology resources that have RSS feeds. These feeds are sources of information about site updates that can be read automatically by RSS software. Examples of RSS feeds include blog entries and news articles. This site should be useful for teachers, and students and researchers. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.psychantenna.com/
January 15

Face Perception In Monkeys

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Face perception in monkeys reared with no exposure to faces
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Infant monkeys were reared with no exposure to any faces for 6–24 months. Before being allowed to see a face, the monkeys showed a preference for human and monkey faces in photographs, and they discriminated human faces as well as monkey faces. After the deprivation period, the monkeys were exposed first to either human or monkey faces for a month. Soon after, the monkeys selectively discriminated the exposed species of face and showed a marked difficulty in regaining the ability to discriminate the other nonexposed species of face. These results indicate the existence of an experience-independent ability for face processing as well as an apparent sensitive period during which a broad but flexible face prototype develops into a concrete one for efficient processing of familiar faces.

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March 09

The Centre For Qualitative Research. (Bournemouth University. Institute Of Health & Community Studies)

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February 17

Migration And Mental Health

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Migration and mental health : evidence from a natural experiment
Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers (More)
January 30

ERIC [Education Resources Information Center]

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NAPC Digitizing ERIC's Document Backfile
by Barbara Quint

ERIC contains reviews and articles on psychological testing and assessment, in addition to being a major edicational database.

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January 19

Student Evaluations Of Teaching

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Bias, the Brain, and Student Evaluations of Teaching
Source: ExpressO Preprint Series

" psychology research demonstrates that these assessments respond overwhelmingly to a professor's appearance and nonverbal behavior."

Full Paper (PDF; 1.1 MB) http://law.bepress.com/expresso/eps/1939/

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January 11

Is Dieting Advice From Magazines Helpful Or Harmful?

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Is Dieting Advice From Magazines Helpful or Harmful? Five-Year Associations With Weight-Control Behaviors and Psychological Outcomes in Adolescents
Source: Pediatrics

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January 09

New PsycInfo Newsletter Online (Winter 2007)

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Articles include:
PsycEXTRA Addresses Issues with Gray Literature
Psychology Focus: Terrorism
Librarian Interview: Teaching PsycINFO: University of Utah librarian, Maire Paiva, shares teaching tips.

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