Psychology

The psychology of misinformation — the mental shortcuts, confusions, and illusions that encourage us to believe things that aren’t true — can tell us a lot about how to prevent its harmful effects. It’s what affects whether corrections work, what we should teach in media literacy courses, and why we’re vulnerable to misinformation in the first place. It’s also a fascinating insight into the human brain.

From college education requirements to choosing a specialization and getting your license, follow these key steps to become a professional psychologist.

Learn more about the broad career options for psychology graduates and see where a degree in psychology can take you.

The online psychology degree is one of the most popular, diverse and convenient available, thanks to flexible coursework and program offerings at every degree level.

PsychologyDictionary.org is the most trusted psychology resource on the internet featuring professionally written psychology definitions.

The Online Psychology Dictionary defines and provides examples for 521 psychology related terms.

The American Psychological Association was founded in 1892 with 31 members and grew quickly after World War II.Today, APA has more than 115,700 members and 54 divisions in subfields of psychology.

As the world's largest association representing professional counselors in various practice settings, the American Counseling Association stands ready to serve more than 55,000 members with the resources they need to make a difference. From webinars, publications, and journals to Conference education sessions and legislative action alerts, ACA is where counseling professionals turn for powerful, credible content and support.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. NIMH is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical research agency in the world. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This site provides community mental health information, as well as insight into current research.

A world-class resource for abstracts and citations of behavioral and social science research

PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.

This is a good place to look at research topics, view Open Access articles, view the Observer magazine, and get career information.

As part of a 10-year plan launched in March 2012 to understand the neural code—how activity in the brain's cortex leads to perception, decision making, and ultimately action—the Allen Institute has created a set of large-scale programs to understand the fundamentals of the cortex.

Classics in the History of Psychology is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.

Includes: General Psychology Resources, Psychology Study Resources, Psychology Teaching Resources, Psychology History Resources, Psychology Movement Resources, Influential Figures in Psychology

Includes resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods.

Includes links to information on brain disease and tumors.