General

Social Psychology Network (http://socialpsychology.org). Links to over 5,000 psychology-related sites. Additional information may be found on the subject areas of social psychology, as well as journals, electronic forums, teaching resources, and professional profiles of individual social psychologists. Compiled by Scott Plous.

Methods and Ethics

Social and Behavioral Human Subjects Training (http://www.research.umn.edu/consent/menu_soc.html). Developed by the University of Minnesota, this course addresses the obligations of investigators who conduct research with human participants. Topics include roles and responsibilities of researchers, guiding ethical principles, federal regulations, informed consent, IRBs, reporting of adverse events, privacy and confidentiality, and historical events that have shaped current policies.

American Psychological Association Ethics Code (http://www.apa.org/ethics/code2002.html). This revision of the code became effective on June 1, 2003.

Office for Human Research Protections (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/). This office within the Department of Health and Human Services supervises the ethical conduct of federally funded research. It was the office that has been involved in the well-publicized shutdown of research at several universities in the past few years. This site contains ethics regulations and a checklist for informed consent considerations in designing research. There are also several background documents such as the Belmont Report.

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science (http://www.onlineethics.org). This site covers the waterfront on formal and practical issues concerning research ethics.  Among the many background documents are a discussion of federal government’s definition of misconduct and the Helsinki declaration protecting human research participants.

Statistical Assessment Service (http://www.stats.org/). STATS is a non-profit organization that provides journalists with analyses of current scientific disputes. It also issues awards such as the Worst Science of the Century, the Dubious Data Award, and Millenial Misconceptions.

Research Randomizer (http://www.randomizer.org). This web site is designed to assist researchers and students who want an easy way to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions. Sponsored by the Social Psychology Network.

Mystery Pollster (http://mysterypollster.com). Mark Blumenthal's website/blog about methodological and interpretation issues in political polls.

Group Processes

Stanford Prison Experiment (http://www.prisonexp.org). Found here is an extensive slide show and information on one of the most controversial studies in the history of American psychology.

Group Dynamics Resource Page (http://www.richmond.edu/~dforsyth/gd/). Donalson Forsyth has compiled a comprehensive site dealing with the social psychology of groups. The history of group research is described. Links to journals and organizations are here as well as many applications. For example, "Seven basic questions about groups answered", "Seven sins of a deadly meeting", "When teams fail: Tragedy on Mt. Everest", and "Heaven's Gate: A group dynamics perspective".

Heaven's Gate (http://www.heavensgate.com). The official site of the Heaven's Gate cult. Several members commited mass suicide in 1997. Information on their history and beliefs are here.

Social Influence

Stanley Milgram (http://www.stanleymilgram.com). This site profiles Milgram's work, including his infamous research on obedience to authority. Especially interesting are the "little known facts about Milgram". It is maintained by Thomas Blass (University of Maryland-Baltimore County), himself a survivor of the Holocaust.

Working Psychology (http://www.workingpsychology.com/intro.html). This introduction to persuasive techniques is written by Kelton Rhoads, a former student of social psychologist, Robert Cialdini. A general overview of persuasion concepts and examples is provided.

Persuasion: Nonverbal Behavior and Communication (http://www3.usal.es/~nonverbal/papers.htm). Links to full-text research articles and other resources.

Prejudice

Understanding Prejudice (http://www.UnderstandingPrejudice.org). This new site has more than 2,000 prejudice-related links, searchable databases of organizations and prejudice researchers, teaching resources, and interactive exercsies. Compiled by Scott Plous.

Jigsaw Classroom (http://www.jigsaw.org). The official site of the jigsaw classroom, "a cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment with the learning experience". The technique was originally developed by social psychologist, Elliot Aronson.

Implicit Association Test (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/). This site contains several self-administered demonstrations of unconscious processing of social information. It also contains a bibliography of research on implicit attitudes. Anthony Greenwald (University of Washington) and Mahzarin R. Banaji have conducted much of this research. However, Mark Klinger and University of Alabama cognitive psychology students have also been active in this area.

Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.splcenter.org) The SPLC is an Alabama-based nonprofit group that combats prejudice and discrimination through education and litigation. It has won a number of high-profile legal cases against extremist groups. When you visit, be sure to check out some of the articles in the Intelligence Project.

Sexual Prejudice (http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/sexual_prejudice.html). A resource site on homophobia maintained by Gregory M. Herek, Department of Psychology, University of California-Davis. Among the topics are prevalence, correlates, motivations, and measurement of sexual prejudice.

A Class Divided (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/).This video is a rebroadcast of the classic prejudice exercise in which Jane Elliott, a 3rd grade teacher in rural Iowa, divided her white students on the basis of eye color. Original footage of the students plus followup interviews. The episode is divided into five segments online.

Jane Elliott profile. Thirty-five years later, Jane Elliott's discrimination exercise remains controversial. Read reactions of town citizens and the lessons learned by former students who participated in this exercise in which students were divided on the basis of eye color. From the September, 2005 issue of Smithsonian magazine.

Health Attitudes and Behavior

Healthy People 2010 (http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/). Healthy People 2010 is a national health promotion and disease prevention initiative developed by a consortium of federal agencies. The goals are to increase quality of life and eliminate health disparities.

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (2nd ed.) (http://www.odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/guidecps/). This comprehensive reference for health care practitioners is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The guide updates knowledge about prevention, screening, and counseling in a variety of health domains. When you visit the site, I suggest that you select the Text version of the Guide.

Health Psychology Research and Information Network (http://www.healthpsychology.net). This site includes research abstracts in health psychology and behavioral medicine. It also lists conferences and provides links to additional sites.

Persuasion: Public Service Announcements (http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/historic_campaigns/). History of the public service spots produced by the Ad Council over the past 60 years. Images and some video.

Aggression

Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/). This 2001 report summarizes information on the magnitude of the problem, developmental dynamics, risk factors, and prevention and intervention. John Lochman's work is cited as a promising preventive approach.

Violence Prevention Topics (http://www.actagainstviolence.com). APA and the National Association for the Education of Young Children have launched this web site dedicated to providing practical help to stop violence against children. One part of the site supplies preventive guidelines based on research. The information is intended for the public and for professionals who work with children.

Guide to Media Rating Systems in the U.S. (http://www.parentalguide.org/). Summary of ratings used for movies, video games, television, and music.

Aggravating Circumstances: A Status Report on Rudeness in America (http://www.publicagenda.org/specials/civility/civility.htm). Summary and graphs from a January 2002 national opinion survey conducted by Public Agenda.

Prosocial Behavior

Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (http://www.carnegiehero.org/). The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission recognizes and rewards outstanding acts of prosocial behavior. This site contains profiles of the latest awardees, including four local winners. Jared S. Wilson, a UA student, won the award in 2000 for his rescue of a woman who lost consciousness while driving on Interstate 65 north of Birmingham. Johnathon Hunter rescued a man from a burning building in Tuscaloosa in 2001. Raymond Asworth and Joe Riggs died while attempting to save others from an impending coal mine explosion in Brookwood in 2001.

Self Processes

Self-Efficacy (http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html). Created by Frank Pajares, this site contains everything about self-efficacy: articles, measures, ongoing research, and more.

The Merchants of Cool (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/). The PBS website that accompanies the Frontline series program first aired in 2001. It is a report on "the creators and marketers of popular culture for teeneagers". Shown vividly is how the self-identity of American youth is shaped by advertising.