Tammie's Education 113 Project: Social Psychology on the Internet

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Prepared for Education 113 by Kaserin Tammie Kong

Introduction

Hi everyone! Welcome to my Education 113 project: Social Psychology on the Net and Related Resources. As a Cal student majoring in Psychology, I have found psychology resources over the Internet to be very useful for research and for general information. I initally wanted to do a general page for psychology resources on the Internet, but as my research progressed, I noticed that while there is a great of abundance of general psychology resources, the information pertaining to social psychology (as a discipline) appears to be lacking. For my term project, I decided to create a resource for psychology resources on the Internet, while providing a brief overview of social psychology (without writing a whole textbook). The kind of information I will provide will hopefully be useful to the layman who wants to find out more about what social psychology is and its relevance to our society.

Table of Contents

I. What is Social Psychology?

Why is social psychology important to us?

II. Social Perception

Self-perception: How do people think about themselves?

Perceiving Others: Why are people more likely to hold other people accountable for their behavior but make excuses for their own?

Perceiving Groups: Why do people stereotype?

III. Social Influences

Aggression: What kinds of situations encourage aggression?

Altruism: What motivates a person to help another?

Attraction and Love: What kinds of factors determine who you fall in love with?

IV. Social Interaction

Group Processes: How does being in a group affect one's point of view?

Comformity and Individuation: Why are comformity influences so strong?

Attitudes: How are attitudes formed and changed?

V. Social Psychology in Action

Health: How can people cope with stress?

Law: Are jurors chosen in the most unbiased manner?

Business: How does affirmative action affect the performance and progress of women and minorities?

VI. Other Resources for Social Psychology and Related Topics (on this page)

Related Topics and Resources

General Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Biological Psychology and Psychopharmacology
Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Research Tools
Newsgroups
Mailing Lists
Psychology Departments and Programs

Fun and Interesting Web Sites

Other Social Psychology Links

Psychology Web Archive ("Jumping Off Place for Social Psychologists")
Compendium of Social Psychology Resources (includes list of reseachers in social psychology)
Social Cognition - Social Psychology Paper Archive (links to abstracts and information about researchers)
Social Psychology at ANU (contains general information about social psychology and links)
Social Psychology Network (more links, including individual home pages of social psychologists)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Homepage
Yahoo! - Science:Psychology:Social Psychology

Related Topics and Resources

General Psychology

American Psychological Association PsychNET (SM) (provides great resources, including articles, publications, etc., plus the last word in how you are supposed to write a psychology paper)

American Psychological Society (APS) (great resource for electronic journals)

Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) (publications and other resources)

Online Psych (a news and information service)

The Society for Computers in Psychology (a non-profit organization of researchers interested in applications of computers in psychology)