Discover the most accessible and well-written psychology blogs available on the web.

More great blogs, stacks of fantastic content, all free. Perhaps there is hope for humanity.

Update: here's a more recent list of 40 superb psychology blogs.

Best guide to new psychology research
What can the BPS Research Digest do for you? Well, it will introduce and keep you up to date with the best new psychology research being published in academic journals. It's all proper science that's been translated from academic-journal-speak into langauge we can all understand. Can't say fairer than that.

Best psychology blog carnival
Blog carnivals are a neat way to highlight great posts on related topic from different blogs. In psychology and neuroscience, Encephalon is the Daddy of blog carnivals. Coming out every two weeks and hosted by a different blogger each time, Encephalon enables you to sample new blogs and marvel at the sheer diversity of the psychology blogosphere.

Best neuroscience blog
And while I'm talking about the Daddy of psychology carnivals, I should mention Encephalon's Daddy, the Neurophilosopher. In depth but accessible, the Neurophilosopher covers neuroscience and too much else to sum up here. Head over there, but be warned - it's addictive!

Best sex psychology blog
Dr Boynton's blog covers sex and relationship issues, but one of her missions is to improve the quality of information on these topics produced by the mainstream media. To that end, she exposes some of the more lamentable attempts to report psychology along with ways it could be improved. Unfortunately, sometimes it really is as bad as you think it is. Dr Boynton is a lecturer at a London University.

» Go to part 1, part 3, part 4 and part 5.

Making Habits, Breaking Habits

In his new book, Jeremy Dean--psychologist and author of PsyBlog--looks at how habits work, why they are so hard to change, and how to break bad old cycles and develop new healthy, creative, happy habits.

→ "Making Habits, Breaking Habits", is available now on Amazon.

Reviews
The Bookseller, “Editor’s Pick,” 10/12/12 “Sensible and very readable…By far the most useful of this month’s New You offerings.”

Kirkus Reviews, 1/1/13 “Making changes does take longer than we may expect—no 30-day, 30-pounds-lighter quick fix—but by following the guidelines laid out by Dean, readers have a decent chance at establishing fulfilling, new patterns.”

Publishers Weekly, 12/10/12 “An accessible and informative guide for readers to take control of their lives.”

→ You can dip into the first chapter, or check it out on Amazon.com.