Please indicate (by posting a comment) the book you will be doing your analysis on, and the date you would like to turn it in. Please select any non-online class day as your due date.
August 2010 Archives
Scientific American's Mind and Brain section
Website with games and information to learn about gender bias.
http://www.genderbiasbingo.com/index.html
Interesting website about the brain and memory.
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/
"We are building a library for the human brain, creating the potential to illustrate the detailed design of the brain, how its microscopic structure reflects who we are, and how the relationship between structure and behavior changes as we age or as we face the progression of neurological disease."
A research methods resource site.
Website with information and experiments on beauty, attractiveness, face perception, and social perception.
Once considered a bit cheesy, Psychology Today provides psychological news and information to the lay public.
BBC's website on psychology related news and information.
Video clip showing monkeys cooperating.
Blog compiling information on psychological research.
"This website is about scientific research into how the mind works. The studies I cover have been published in reputable academic journals in many different areas of psychology."
Short easy to understand summary of the cocktail party effect.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/03/the-cocktail-party-effect.php/comment-page-1
Nice, simple descriptors of 10 (actually 20) psychology studies of general interest.
http://www.globalshift.org/2010/01/05/top-ten-psychology-studies-of-2009/
This article reviews a book on bonobos and their surprising similarities to humans.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/06/bonobos-have-a-secret.html
This website is a great resource for information about research methods and statistics.
http://www.teachpsychscience.org/
A blog devoted to information, resources and commentary about how people think, act, and feel in the workplace
Here are your options for the book analysis assignment:
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Calahan
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislov Graf
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Jack-Kerouac/dp/0140042598-
Walden 2 by BF Skinner
101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory by Terry McDermott
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
Asylums
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
The Bell Jar
Black and Blue
A Clockwork Orange
The Female Man
Fraternity Gang Rape
Girl Interrupted
The Handmaid's Tale
House of Stairs
I Know this Much is True
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Ladder of Years
The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception
A Man Named Dave
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
My Mother, Myself
The Naked Ape
Ordinary People
Paradise
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688172172/ref=pd_sim_books/104-2777705-2011124
The Power of Persuasion: How We are Bought and Sold
The Psychology of Everyday Things
Reading Faces
The Rediscovery of Mind
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375704078/ref=pd_sim_books/104-2777705-2011124
Sybil
A Thousand Acres
The Tipping Point
An Unquiet Mind
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679763309/ref=pd_sr_ec_ir_b/104-2777705-2011124
The Wave
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Telling lies: Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage.
Black and Blue
Born to Be Good
The Compassionate Instinct
Emotions Revealed : Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Intrinsic Motivation at Work: Building Energy & Commitment
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Ladder of Years
Learning and Motivation Strategies: Your Guide to Success
Lives on the Boundary
Loneliness
The Long Walk
A Million Little Pieces
The Mind at Work
Motivation and Goal Setting: How to Set and Achieve Goals and Inspire Others
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine
Ordinary People
The Power of Positive Thinking
Talent is Overrated
Toward a Psychology of Being
Unstoppable: 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You
The Way of Zen
Why School?
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
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