Guide to Psychology Blogs - Part 5
Best historical psychology blog
The Advances in the History of Psychology blog has been going strong for a while now and contains some real gems. Amongst these are a description of the famous Stanley Milgram obedience experiments by someone who resisted and videos of B. F. Skinner demonstrating operant conditioning. The main contributor is Christopher D. Green, Professor of Psychology at York University in Canada, who is also responsible for the fantastic site Classics in the History of Psychology.Best positive psychology blog
Improved Lives is a new blog about positive psychology which has already generated some interesting articles. You can find out if you're living in a happy country or explore which happiness boosting exercises work. Worth keeping an eye on.Best biopsychosocial blogging
If you prefer your psychology blogging with a biological bent then Brain Blogger is for you. Writers include neurosurgeons, psychotherapists and forensic psychologists and as a result there are a wide range of topics covered here.Best biological brain blogging
Deric Bownds' Mindblog also presents a biological view of the brain. And, as the author of the 'Biology of Mind' textbook and Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Zoology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, you can bet he knows what he's talking about.Best proper-journalist-psychology-blog
Wray Herbert, who writes for Newsweek and Scientific American also posts at We're Only Human. As a former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today it's no surprise the articles are well-written and informative. I particularly enjoyed the neurology of stereotypes.Best err...
Dr Romeo Vitelli's brief bio reveals an intriguing past: 15 years as a staff psychologist at a Canadian maximum-security prison, then full-time practice, now also a disaster management volunteer with the Red Cross. I tell you this partly to shirk the tricky task of summing up his blog, Providentia. Why not just read about George Washington's medical care or clinical lycanthropy. Some fascinating and eclectic posts here.Best of the rest
- David Godot is blogging on positive psychology at Way To Go, Godot!.
- Dr. Robert Dobrenski tells you what it's like to be a clinical psychologist at Shrink Talk.
- Have a look through Michael Britt's Psych Files.
- Finally Ivo Quartiroli discusses the impact of technology and media on our psyche at Indranet.
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Guide to Psychology Blogs - Update and Call for Links
As ever I'm always on the lookout for accessible, fresh blogging in psychology and related fields. So if you'd like to suggest your own blog or someone else's work for inclusion then leave a comment below or drop me an email.
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Guide to Psychology Blogs - Part 4
Best mental health blog
World of Psychology, run by the clinical psychologist Dr John Grohol, is a great blog for mental health generally. But the blog only forms part of the site, that also includes discussion forums, a guide to medications, psychological tests and more. Loads of useful resources on mental health books and research.Best social psychology blog
The Situationist explores the importance of the situation in human behaviour and thought. It covers social psychology, social cognition, and related fields, but it is associated with Harvard Law School and therefore has a broad subject-area. It has both original writing and interesting excerpts from relevant pieces in the media.Best 'big pharma watch' blog
Philip Dawdy is a journalist with bipolar disorder whose blog, Furious Seasons, rattles the cages of Big Pharma. Want to find out more about the atypical anti-psychotic Zyprexa, made by Eli Lilly? Worried about the marketing of drugs and whether they are really for the benefit of patients? Check out his blog.best psychotherapy blog
i feel calmer just browsing around the 'change therapy' blog written by isabella, a psychotherapist in vancouver, canada. it's partly the absence of capital letters - which gives the impression of a soft-voice - and it's partly the gentle way this blog is written. recommended.Best autism blog
Dr Kristina Chew explains that she began to blog about her son's autism in 2005 somewhat out of desperation. Charlie was not doing well despite a number of different treatments like intensive ABA, some biomedical treatments, speech therapy and OT. Read more of her story here on Kristina Chew.com and continue on to her blog, AutismVox which is a fantastic autism resource.Best human psyche blog
Dr Deborah Serani's blog covers all sorts of areas of psychology, but focuses on depression, treatment, stigma and self-esteem. She herself is a trauma psychologist and Adjunct Professor at Adelphi University.Best urban monk (personal development)
This blog has a great name, the Urban Monk, and it also has some great content. If you're the sort of person wondering: what your ego is and how to stop it from obscuring your inner peace and unconditional love, or the most effective way to express words of gratitude, then this is the blog for you.Thanks to...
Gareth of PsychSplash kindly pointed me to his publicly available list of RSS feeds which was really useful in discovering more lovely blogs.» Now read part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 5.
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Guide to Psychology Blogs - Part 3
Here are some blogs that look at more specific topics. Some of these blogs are also gateways to further related blogs so explore those blogrolls [updated May 2008].
Best neuromarketing blog
So this time, it's into the brain scanner but instead of tax returns it's adverts. For a considerably more informed viewpoint Neuromarketing has the facts. I'm finding the wearable brain scanner slightly disturbing. Only a matter of time before we have Minority Report vision of the future: you're in the mall (unlikely I know), lasers scan your retina and project personalised adverts directly at you. Ahhh so that's why they're always wearing sunglasses in the future.
Best neurotechnology blog
Seeing as we're doing all the blogs beginning with neuro- I should mention Brain Waves which focusses on the field of neurotechnology. Written by industry insider Zack Lynch, it covers some similar areas to the previous two blogs. Definitely worth a look.
Best schizophrenia blog
The Schizophrenia Daily News Blog is a not-for-profit source of information, support and education on schizophrenia. Written by a whole host of doctors - both MDs and PhDs - this blog is well-established and over-flowing with information you can trust.
Best panic blog
Written by Eric Wilinski, who suffers from panic disorder himself, PANIC! focusses on the experience of panic and types of treatments which are available. Highly recommended to both those suffering from this condition and to those interested in it.
Best Alzheimer's and dementia blog
The Tangled Neuron is written from the perspective of a daughter trying to better understand her father's dementia. This blog is relatively new but already bursting at the seams with great posts mainly focussing on the science. Very useful site for those with a personal interest in this subject as well as the general reader.
Best anxiety and depression blog
The Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments blog has loads of solid coverage of these subjects and more.
Best blog on the origins of speech
Babel's Dawn is a blog written by Edmund Blair Bolles exploring the origins of speech. How come chimps do all that eeeeking and we've developed blogs? Head on over to Babel's Dawn to find out.
Best social networks for psychology
Not strictly blogs, I know, but social networks can be extremely useful for discovering great writing about psychology. Three popular social networks are StumbleUpon, Reddit and Digg - although Digg is more technology/hard science oriented.
Best completely inaccessible blog
I have to mention Ryohei's Neuroscience Notes which is largely concerned with the building of a 2-photon microscope. I read rather more of this than I should probably admit.
Hat tip
...to the Neurophilosopher's gargantuan list of cognitive science, psychology and psychiatry blogs from which this selection is born. Also, I found so much good stuff I may well extend this increasingly inaccurately named trilogy into a fourth post (thanks to Douglas Adams for that joke).
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Guide to Psychology Blogs - Part 2
More great blogs, stacks of fantastic content, all free. Perhaps there is hope for humanity [updated May 2008].
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 crime psychology blog
Not just one blog, but a family of blogs about crime psychology. Most accessible of these to the general reader is the Deception Blog which will keep you up to date on the latest research on lie detection.
Update: posting has slowed up but there's still some interesting occasional posts.
Best guide to psychology sites and resources
Lost? Confused? Unsure where you're heading? PsychSplash helps alleviate existential angst by pointing you to the juiciest new psychology websites on offer. Although aimed primarily at clinical psychologists, students and researchers, many posts are of interest to a wider audience. Written in a breezy style by a clinical psychologist.
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.
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Guide to Psychology Blogs - Part 1
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 [updated May 2008].
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.
Second is Mixing Memory which tends towards longer less frequent articles. Written in an open conversational style, this blog tackles all kinds of subject, generally getting stuck into the details. Best for people with a background in psychology but still very accessible.
Both blogs come from the Scienceblogs stable.
Best multimedia psychology blog
Channel N has links to all kinds of audio and video files. It's only updated every now and then (who am I to talk?) but worth returning to. Here's links to an interview with Kay Redfield Jamison on suicide and V. S. Ramachandran talking about neuroaesthetics.
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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