Getting Ideas

The most valuable tools for finding out what is on the Internet are called "search engines". These computer programs are designed to sort and organize the incredible amount of information available on the net. Some of the best are:

AltaVista

Excite

Infoseek

Lycos

WebCrawler

Metacrawler

Metacrawler is an example of a service that explores several of these other search engines at once, providing comprehensive (if somewhat slower) searches. All of these search engines provide methods of complex searching, in which one can look for phrases and include Boolean operators, such as AND, OR, NOT, or NEAR. They also allow for searches of both the World Wide Web and Usenet. Given the enormous number of documents available, it is best to search for words and phrases that will be specifically relevant to what you are seeking. For example, if you're looking for information on a specific discipline in psychology, the use of technical words or phrases such as "classical conditioning" or "systematic desensitization" will help make the search engine's response more manageable. AltaVista has features that allow users to include or exclude a variety of potential key words, helping to narrow a search considerably. The search engine used to find many of the sites used in this guide was http://www.yahoo.com.

Newsgroups

Newsgroups are a valuable resource both for getting a research idea and developing that idea testable hypothesis. In news groups you exchange e-mail with others with similar interests. There are newsgroups for areas such as industrial psychology, personality psychology, and social psychology. You can find some of the psychology related newsgroups at http://www.yahoo.com/social_science/psychology/usenet/

Some other web sites that give you access to newsgroups and other Internet resources for psychology are:

Hanover College Psychology web site: http://psych.hanover.edu/krantz/lists.html

The web is probably the easiest resource for the beginning user of the Internet to grasp. Set up in a graphically pleasant, easy to understand manner, information is available on almost every conceivable topic. Using the afore-mentioned search engines on the term psychology will yield millions of "hits" (or more properly, uses of the specified text within the text of the webpages themselves). It is important to limit your searches to a manageable level with qualifying extra terms. A search of the WWW using about half a dozen words relevant to your topic, or idea, will generally yield a significant number of web pages. In order to find specific research organizations or convention information you may type the name into a search engine or use one of the compilation links below:

Artificial Intelligence: http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/people/dwc/ai.html

Clinical Psychology: http://www.psychologie.unibonn.de/kap/links_20.htm

Cognitive Sciences: http://matia.stanford.edu/cogsci/

Cognitive Science on Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/science/cognitive_science/

General Psychology: http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Social-Sciences/Psychology.html

Industrial and Organizational Psychology: http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~flievens/guide.htm

Neuroscience: http://www.neuroguide.com/

Psychiatry: http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Medicine/Medical-Specialties/Psychiatry.html

Psychology and Psychiatry Resources: http://stange.simplenet.com/psycsite/prof-resources.html

PsycSites: http://www.unipissing.ca/psyc/psycsite.htm

http://stange.simplenet.com/psycsite/

Psychological Resources Internet http://maple.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/psychref.html

Psych-Web: http://www.psychwww.com/

http://www.psych-web.com/

Parapsychological Sources: http://www.ed.ac.uk/~ejua35/parapsy.htm

Psychological Medicine: http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Medicine/Medical-Specialties/Psychological- Medicine.html

http://server.bmodatha.basc.au.ca/html/aupr/psycres.htm Psychology & Cognitive Sciences Resources: http://www.Ke.shinshu-u.ac.jp/psych/index.html

Psychology & Counseling: http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~gail/index.htm

Sites With Journal Listing and More General Information

Every student's Internet resource: http://www,magpie.org/amato/psych.htm#toc

Rhodes Psychology Resources is another site where you can find a good general index of psychological resources on the net: http://www.rhodes.edu/public/2_0-Academics/2_5-Library/2_5_2-SubjectGuides/2_5_2_26-Psychology.shtml.

Psychological Societies

Many of the professional organizations in psychology have their own websites. The following are a representative, but very incomplete, sampling:

American Psychological Association, Division 41 (Psychology and Law): http://www.apa.org/about/division/div41.html

APLS (American Psychology and Law Society): http://www.libfind.unl.edu/ap-ls/

APA - American Psychological Association http://www.apa.org

APS -American Psychological Society http://psych.hanover.edu/aps

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/

International Psychoanalytical Association http://www.ipa.org.uk/

Eastern Psychological Association http://www.easternpsychological.org

Midwestern Psychological Association http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~mpa/

Psi Chi http://www.psichi.org/intro.asp

Southeastern Psychological Association http://www.ngc.peachnet.edu/academic/...

SPSSI http://www.spssi.org/

SCiP - Society for Computers in Psychology http://www.lafayette.edu/allanr/scip.html

ISSPR - International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships: HTTP://www.isspr.org/

Western Psychological Association http://www.gryphon-communications/wpa/index.html

For a more complete listing see: http://www.socialpsychology.org/

or Psychological Societies Online http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Psychology/Organizations/