Guide to Psychology Blogs – Part 1
Discover the most accessible and well-written psychology blogs available on the web.
It's a real treat to see the breadth, quality and sometimes sheer quirkiness of the psychology blogging going on out there. To help you navigate all this fabulous information, here's a list of my favourite accessible psychology blogs
Update: here's a more recent list of 40 superb psychology blogs.
Best all-round performer
Some blogs focus on quite specific areas, others are more general. Top of the accessible general blogs is MindHacks which manages to cover a wide range of areas, often in detail. This is really the best all-round performer the psychology blog-o-sphere has to offer. Largely written by a psychology PhD now training in clinical psychology - MindHacks is frequently updated, sometimes two or three times a day. This is your first stop.
Best cognitive psychology blog
Two joint winners in this category. First is Cognitive Daily which makes complicated topics in cognitive psychology look easy. Great writing, loads of content, a knowledgeable audience of commenters and graphs you can understand. It's frequently updated and wide-ranging but mostly within cognitive psychology. Co-produced by a Professor of psychology.
Best multimedia psychology blog
Channel N has links to all kinds of audio and video files. Here are a couple of recent posts about promoting rational decisions and web therapy.
Best psychiatrist's blog
While the tag line of The Last Psychiatrist is 'depression, bipolar, suicide, drug companies and medications', this blog certainly won't cause any of these conditions. Well, at worst you'll want to start your own drug company. This provides a much needed critical approach to all the above topics and more. Less frequent but longer posting. Recommended.
Best humorous (but still scientific) psychology blog
Of Two Minds is the successful result of a daring experiment to fuse two PhD student bloggers into one (they were previously OmniBrain and Retrospectacle).
Each have their foibles of course: Steve Higgins is more of a pigeons playing ping-pong kind of guy, while Shelley has a parrot called Pepper and can't resist the parrot-based posts. But they're both obsessed with brains, which is just how we like it - check out this anatomically correct brain cake.
It's another funky offering from the ScienceBlogs stable.
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There is a very nice overview of psychology and neuroscience blogs at: neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/neuroscience-blogs. I feel slightly abashed by your comment about updating your blogroll since I am way behind on updating mine. You should definitely add your own blog to your list.
This isn't a direct psych blog but it is intrinsically linked to psychology and statistics and I find it interesting even when I struggle with stats
http://www.jeremymiles.co.uk/regressionbook/regressionblog.html
Great, thanks for these links Romeo and Glen, I'll take a look.
Hi Jeremy,
You've put together a great list here!
I just wanted to put in a plug for the 'Ask the Psychologist' blog we've recently launched over at CounsellingResource.com:
http://counsellingresource.com/ask-the-psychologist/
It's a daily question-and-answer with Dr Joseph M Carver, a clinical psychologist in Ohio. The 'Ask the Psychologist' blog joins our established blog at the site, which covers mental health, counselling, and psychology more broadly:
http://counsellingresource.com/features
Oh, and last but not least (no doubt one more link is going to make this comment look like spam, but I'll try it anyway...), we also recently launched a blogging service over at BlogsInMind.com, which might be of interest to some of your readers looking to start their own psychology-focused blogs:
http://blogsinmind.com
All the best,
Greg
Thanks Greg, yes three links does look like spam, but now you've said it's spam perhaps it's not spam. At the worst it's polite spam!
The Neurocritic is the best neuroblog ever. All the specific technical detail you'd want (with refs), but very witty and incisive, with creative images too.
Thanks for the props for Channel N. :)
Hi Jeremy,
I don't know whether you're expanding your list to counselling-related blogs as well. If so, Counselling Connection (www.counsellingconnection.com) is a very good one. This blog is reasonably new but with plenty of good content.
It's worth taking a look. By the way - great list!
Sandra, you're welcome - actually you're an Omnibrain-er as well aren't you? So you actually got two nominations!
Anonymous, thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look.
Hi Jeremy,
any blog on social psychology?
and evolutionary social psychology?
Thanks,
your blog is great..
Hi Giuseppe, although blogs do cover these topics, I haven't been able to find anything really accessible so far - I'll keep looking though.
If you can find one on I/O psychology I would be very interested!
have you looked at http://www.researchdigest.co.uk/blog
It's the blog of the British Psychological Society's Research Digest service. You can also sign up to a fortnightly email, completely free.
Check out part 2 of the guide - it's already there...
Another good source of psychology information on the web are podcasts. One of my favorites is Shrink Rap Radio (http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/) Dr. Dave is a great interviewer with interesting guests! I have listen to all 100+ of his shows!
Thanks for this listing of good blogs!
Thanks John, I'll check it out.