Psychology blogs

I try and encourage my students to read about psychology in the media as well as their additional textbook reading. Although there are often newspaper articles relating to psychology, there are also a lot of blogs about psychology out there, of varying qualities & interest to a-level psychology. I discussed using delicious.com to save bookmarks to posts like this in an earlier post.

A few blogs I often link from are:

BPS research digest – on current research, written for non-specialists

Mental Health Update – short posts on mental health research

Mind Hacks – brilliant blog which often throws up interesting psychology, current and historic

Neuro images – not updated so frequently, but a nice selection of brain pictures – artistic, neuroimaging and anatomical

Teaching High school Psychology – American equivalent of this blog I suppose, has nice teaching ideas and occasionally resources

There’s quite a nice category-specific list here:

http://generallythinking.com/blog/the-28-best-psychology-blogs-on-the-internet-organised-by-topic/

Fuller list here (which should also get updated):

http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Psychology_blogs

The researchdigest recently posted a list of psychologists who tweet, which includes me (tweeting on a-level related psychology news). I turned that into a twitter list (so you can see all their tweets in one place).

To follow these links, I use googlereader, there are alternatives but they’re all fairly similar – the video below shows how I use this to:

1) follow blogs I want to read

2) read them & mark them as unread or starred

3) send specific posts to delicious/twitter/email

Sorry this video is a bit long – if I get time/remember I’ll try and create a shorter version.

If you use any other blogs for psychology teaching, do comment.

The movie was made using the opensource CamStudio and (also opensource) Virtual Magnifying Glass with editing in Windows Live Moviemaker.