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This is the largest social psychology database on the internet, with more than 5,000 links to psychology-related resources.

This is the website for the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world. This organization was founded in 1974.

This is the website for the national survey results of the 2007 report "How Young People View Their Lives, Future, and Politics: A Portrait of Generation Next."

This is the website for the scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States.

This is the website for scientists from psychology and related fields and others who share an interest in research on the psychological aspects of important social and policy issues.

Check out the website for the main scientific journal in psychological social psychology. Here you will find current abstracts of journal articles. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical papers on attitudes and social cognition, interpersonal relations and group processes, and personality processes and individual differences.

Explore the website for the main scientific journal in sociological social psychology, where you will find information on current journal articles. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical papers on the link between the individual and society.

This is the website of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), an organization of more than 3,000 psychology and other related scientists. The site contains links to SPSSI publications, news about policy, a newsletter, conference information, teaching materials, and more.

Information on this site is devoted to research and teaching to advance the field of social psychology. It contains links to social psychology experts, research groups, and graduate programs around the world. Its resources also include links to social psychology journals, teaching resources, learning programs, blogs and podcasts, a career center, and more.

A website devoted to personality and social psychology. The site includes links to the organization’s publications and helps connect members to educational events, networking, science funding, and mentoring opportunities.

This is the website for an organization devoted to facilitating communication among persons interested in a diverse range of issues involving the intersection of culture and psychology.

This is the website for an organization pursuing cross-cultural research from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This is the website of an association that promotes scientific study of the human self. Members represent different academic and professional disciplines interested in cognition, emotion, and behavior related to the self.

The website for the American Psychological Association contains a web page that discusses the possibility that high self-esteem narcissists tend to be aggressive when criticized.

The website provides you with the opportunity to assess your conscious and unconscious preferences for over 90 topics, including self-esteem. At the same time, you will be assisting psychological research.

This web page maintained by the Association for Psychological Science contains new social cognition articles in such areas as judgment and decision-making, social categorization, stereotyping, and person memory.

Dane Archer’s web page will introduce you to the topic of nonverbal communication and give you a chance to try to guess the meaning of some real nonverbal communication.

Is that smile real or fake? This website examines research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology regarding how to detect a real from a fake smile.

This web page analyzes cognitive consistency theories and explores the question of whether cognitive consistency needs can be used to increase retail sales.

This web page maintained by the Association for Psychological Science contains articles on social influence.

This web page contains an analysis of common propaganda techniques, historical examples, and a bibliography of relevant publications.

The American Psychological Association has web pages that explore a number of issues related to prejudice and discrimination. For example, one web page analyzes whether all of us have some degree of prejudice, as well as the possibility that we can break our prejudicial habits. Another web page explores the history of hate crimes, including their prevalence, perpetrators, and emotional effects.

This website for the American Association of University Women has separate pages devoted to sexual harassment (Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America’s Schools) and gender discrimination in education (Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children).

This website features the work of Dr. Gregory Herek, a noted authority on antigay prejudice, and his Northern California Community Research Group. A number of the studies conducted by Herek and this group are cited in the present chapter.

This is the website of Awareness Harmony Acceptance Advocates, an organization dedicated to spreading awareness around prejudice and discrimination.

This website is devoted to the psychological study of social influence, examining everyday and interpersonal influence, mindful versus mindless behavior, and the influence tactics used by cults.

Among other things, this large social psychology database offers links to other websites dealing with social influence, including those that discuss marketing and sales techniques, social influence countermeasures, and relevant research.

Saul McLeod created this website to describe Stanley Milgram’s obedience research and to discuss its implications, including the ethical issues raised by this study.

This is a website for psychologists interested in group dynamics. Division 49 promotes group psychology and group psychotherapy through research, education, and clinical practice.

This website for the Center for Leadership Studies contains the findings of recent studies on the social psychological dynamics of leaders as instruments of change within a group.

This website for the American Psychology-Law Society contains information about how the organization advances the contributions of psychology to the understanding of law and legal institutions; promotes education of psychologists in matters of law and of legal personnel in matters of psychology; and informs about current research and educational and service activities in the fields of psychology and law.

This website for the International Association for Relationship Research lists information about interpersonal relationship publications and conferences, as well as links to other relevant sites.

This web page is a gathering of network resources for people seeking information and services for shyness and social anxiety.

The American Psychological Association website contains a web page that discusses research indicating that the internet increases social isolation among users.

This web page for the Adult Attachment Lab, which is directed by Dr. Phillip Shaver at the University of California at Davis, advances understanding of adult attachment dynamics. Here you will find an overview of self-report measures of adult attachment security, as well as recent studies conducted by the lab.

This website is devoted to stimulating and supporting scholarship and research on personal relationships.

At this website you can learn about the formation, evolution, maintenance, and dissolution of intimate relationships.

This website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the U.S. Surgeon General contains information on the healing effects of social connection and its critical role in individual, community, and societal health.

This is the website for the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, which lists links to education and training resources, papers and reports on aggression, and resource materials for teaching about family violence.

The American Psychological Association website has a number of relevant web pages, including one that examines research on the psychological effects of television violence and another on how to control anger before it leads to aggression.

This website is devoted to the scientific study of aggression and violence around the world.

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is an anti-sexual violence organization that operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline, partners with other organizations to operate the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense, and offers programs on prevention and help for survivors of sexual violence.

This page on the American Academy of Pediatrics website contains evidenced-based research and other resources about the impact media has on children’s lives.

This web page contains the media violence statement of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

This website by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contains information and contacts to help keep people safe if they feel they are being bullied.

The American Psychological Association has a web page that offers suggestions on how to raise children to be more altruistic, and supports the suggestion with relevant theories.

This website highlights the personal life stories of people who stick their necks out for the common good.

This website is devoted to the institute founded in 1982 by Dr. Samuel Oliner and Dr. Pearl Oliner, who recognized the need for more research into the areas of altruism and prosocial behavior.

This is an education and training page about bystander intervention on the sexual misconduct site for the University of Illinois at Chicago.

This website contains resources and publications for survivors, friends and family, and advocates and educators.