Thursday, April 9, 2009

Usefulness of PsychWidget

PsychWidget is a very useful tool for the readers of this blog. It provides a resource for psychology-related topics, particularly social psychology. It places an emphasis on social psychology while still providing a wide variety of other psychology-related topics. This is helpful because although our topic mainly falls under the category of social psychology, it can also fall under a variety of other different psychology categories as well. By using PsychWidget, you can specifically search for social psychology topics while still being able to broaden and expand your search to the general aspect of psychology.

PsychWidget features a search box for psychology news stories and even includes the latest psychology-related headlines from all around the world. You are constantly updated with the most recent news and you can also search for certain news stories. PsychWidget also features a search box for psychology web links and allows you to do advanced search on your topic. PsychWidget provides forums so you can communicate with other students or professionals about psychology or about topics related to psychology. It also provides forums for job postings, sharing 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 to get information. 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, emotion, and culture/ethnicity. PsychWidget also provides links to a couple useful Social Psychology websites.

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