PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Psychological research has just begun on the Internet. There are several survey-type projects, and research resources, such as software. Otherwise these are links that are of some use to me; you may have different needs -- go search!


Computers in Psychology


Sample Research


There are concerns about sampling issues when surveys are completed on-line, and reference materials for general (i.e., on-line plus off-line) population characteristics may be important:

There are also many sites that deal with general characteristics of on-line users, that you may need to compare your results with:


There are the usual ethical considerations for dealing with research participants, and Tim Rogers has an excellent set of guidelines for ethics approval at the University of Calgary, here.


  • Psychology Experiments On-line, Mississippi

  • COGLAB, Cognitive Psych at Purdue
  • Internet Psychology Lab, Univ. Illinois

  • eExperiment, free software to do online questionnaires (Michigan), and a discussion of why web experiments can work
  • Survey Assistant Software (Wm. Schmidt)
  • SurveyWiz (M. Birnbaum)

  • International Personality Item Pool, Oregon Research Institute (ORI)


    Some Neuropsychology sites


    Grant-related sites


  • ACT theory and architecture of cognition (John Anderson, CMU)
  • IllusionWorks

  • Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology
  • Chaos Experience
  • The Catastrophe Teacher
  • Catastrophe theory, at the Exploratorium

  • Evolution and behavior
  • Narrative Psychology site
  • Qualitative Research
  • Keirsey Temperament Sorter (Myers-Briggs)
  • Critical Thinking
  • Center for Disease Control

    Critical Thinking tutorial (San Jose)

    Sites to Promote Academic Success (Study Skills pointers)

    Mind Tools -- memory techniques and mnemonics (Psych Web) (also in UK)

  • Michele Jacobsen's pointers to Study Skills and Test Wiseness

    Using the Internet for Social Science Research (book)

    Survey research in MIS (Newsted)

  • Song Recognition Quiz
  • Human-Computer Interaction Institute, CMU
  • Resources for graduate students, PROBLEM FINDER
  • The Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research Companion, Research Buzz
  • Instructor's Guide to Plagiarism on the Internet

    Some Educational technology pointers may also be pertinent, for some research programs.

    Some general software archives pointers can be found here, in the Macintosh or Windows or "Other" sections.