PsychWidget

I have found the most perfect online tool for the topic of this blog: PsychWidget. PsychWidget was created by the Social Psychology Network organization (SocialPsychology.org) and was funded by the National Science Foundation. It is designed for psychologists, students, teachers, faculties, and others who are interested in psychology. PsychWidget is a very useful tool for psychology-related topics, especially social psychology. Although it includes a wide variety of psychology-related topics, its emphasis is mainly on social psychology. This is helpful to this blog because our topic can also fall under a variety of different categories although it mainly falls under social psychology as well.

PsychWidget features a search box for psychology news stories and even includes the latest psychology-related headlines from all around the world. It also features a search box for psychology web links and allows you to do advanced search on your topic. PsychWidget provides forums for student discussions, professional discussions, job postings, adding website links, and sending e-mail messages through the listservs of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. PsychWidget provides a directory where you can search for Social Psychology Network profiles, or you can choose to specifically search for Social Psychology Network mentors or media contacts. You can even use the GeoSearch Profiles to locate them by regions. You can also browse through certain topics such as attitudes, attributions, emotion, gender, and culture/ethnicity.

PsychWidget displays icons with links to the main Social Psychology Network website and other websites that are owned by or partnered with the organization:

*Society for Personality and Social Psychology – Seeks to expand the interest and research in personality and social psychology by providing information, journal articles, links, and a search engine and by promoting membership to the society. The organization also offers funding and educational programs to people interested in studying personality or social psychology. As a member, you can communicate with other members through bulletins, announcements, and discussion boards.

*Society of Experimental Social Psychology – Seeks to advance the research and experiments in social psychology by providing information and a search engine and by promoting membership to the society. As a member, you are given access to the organization’s journal articles.

*Understanding Prejudice – Seeks to help others understand the causes and consequences of prejudice by providing links to prejudice-related resources, searchable databases to prejudice-related topics, and interactive exercises online on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.

*eInterview - Conducts web-based interviews that can change questions, response options, and wordings based on previous answers to the questions.

*Research Randomizer – Generates random sampling and random assignments for trials, surveys, experiments, etc.

*Stanford Prison Experiment – Gives information about the Stanford Prison Experiment. Provides a slide show on the experiment, a discussion board for the experiment, and links related to the experiment. It even sells the experiment on DVD.

*Jigsaw Classroom – Advocates the Jigsaw Classroom, a technique that reduces racial conflicts amongst young students while increasing cooperative learning.

*Joe Chemo – Educates about the causes and consequences of smoking.