Interactive Links

Active Learning Exercises

• Prisoner's Dilemma
  Play Prisoner's Dilemma and gain some interesting insights into how you should compete or cooperate with others in the real world.
  
  

• Web Tutorials in Social Psychology
  Several Web tutorials developed by students in the advanced social psychology class at Miami University.

General Social Psychology Links

• Social Psychology Network
  This is the ULTIMATE social psychology Website. Scott Plous has many, many links to other social psychology sites, as well as links to data bases and references. Choose to explore web sites that relate to specific social psychology topics. Or, if you are doing a research paper, choose to look at Web tools for researchers.
  
  

Social Psychology Journals

• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP) JPSP, published by the American Psychological Association, is the premier social psychology journal. This site gives you information on what types of articles are found in the journal as well as current and past tables of contents.
  
  
• Journal of Experimental Social Psychology The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology publishes original research and theory on human social behavior. This site allows you free access to tables of contents and abstracts of published articles.
  
  

Gender, Race, and Discrimination

• The Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (S.P.S.M.M.)
  S. P. S. M. M. is a division of the American Psychological Association that consists of men and women dedicated to promoting the critical study of how gender shapes and constricts men's lives.
  
  
• Women's Resources on the Internet
  A variety of information by and about women on the Internet.
  
  
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)
  AAUW is a national organization that promotes education and equity for all women and girls.
  
  
• National Organization for Women (NOW)
  
  
• CLNet
  This page is dedicated to building Chicana/o Latina/o communities through networking.
  
  
• The National Civil Rights Museum
  The National Civil Rights Museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, has information on the civil rights struggle in the United States as well as links to other civil rights related sites.
  
  
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  This site has information relating to exhibits and resources on the Holocaust.
  
  

Social Influence and Cults

• Heaven's Gate
  This is a mirror site of the Heaven's Gate Suicide Cult. This cult believed that an alien spacecraft was hidden in the tail of the Hale-Bopp comet.
  
  
• The Anti-Telemarketer Source
  This page gives you advice on how to counter telemarketers.
  
  
• The Perils of Obedience
  This is an article that originally appeared in Harper's Magazine describing the research project on obedience to authority conducted by Stanley Milgram. (See page 603 in Psychology in Action, 5e, for a discussion of this experiment.)

Altruism

• Give Five
  This site is dedicated to volunteerism, and how you can make a difference. (Altruism is discussed on pages 612-613 in Psychology in Action, 5e.)

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