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What is PsychWiki? PsychWiki was created as a way to pool our field's collective resources on various topics. As a Wiki anyone with access to the site can edit, correct, or update the information. In a sense, PsychWiki is owned by the community, with input from anyone with experience and knowledge to share. Some of the pages are more developed than others, but no page is complete. If you feel like you'd like to add something to a particular page, please do so. To get things started, we plan on beginning with the topics listed below.

Image:newpages.png "How/where to build your online study"         (...more New Pages)
Image:newfeatures.png " "Did You Know..." archive page"  (...more New Features)
Image:newedits.png "Recent Edits"                     (...more Recent Edits)

Professional Development
Collaborative articles that allow us to pool our field's collective knowledge on topics such as Grant Funding, journals, conferences, how your publication record is evaluated, how to craft your C.V., How to survive in graduate school, etc.


Research Tools
Concrete research tools and articles to assist with conducting research and analyzing data such as Research Tips, Mediation, Meta-analysis, Interaction between continuous variables, Tips on internet research, Archives of data and stimuli, Internet Research FAQ, etc.


Psychology Concepts
Collaborative articles on topics, research areas, and concepts related to Social and Personality psychology such as Happiness, Aggression, Cross Categorization, Computational Modeling, etc.


Virtual Lab Meeting
Why should geographical distance stop people with shared research interests from benefitting from all the advantages a traditional Lab Group has to offer, such as meeting to share research ideas, discuss how to improve research ideas/studies, receive feedback, collaborate on shared research projects, etc.
Research pages: See some of the work done in various labs or share some of your own work.
Researchers pages: See other researchers webpages or start your own.
New Collaborations: In lab meetings people with shared research interests collaborate on new projects by discussing and brainstorming new ideas, materials, procedures, paradigms, etc. With PsychWiki VLM you can collaborate at the level of the entire research field, not just your department/school.

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 PsychWiki Statistics as of July 3
   Pages: 269    Page Edits: 11,173
   Users: 1,779   Page Views: 1,124,070


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fun facts updated weekly every Sunday

... when feeling a loss of control you are more likely to see images in noise, form illusory correlations in stock market information and even perceive conspiracies and develop superstitions. According to a recent news article researchers found that people try to maintain their sense of control and reduce uncertainty by finding patterns when none exist.                                             → more "Did You Know"s...

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  Article of the Month:   July

The Actor- Observer Bias
The actor-observer bias explains the commonly seen errors that one makes when forming attributions about behavior. When a person judges their own behavior, and they are the actor, they are more likely to attribute their actions to the particular situation than to a generalization about their personality. Yet when a person is attributing the behavior of another person, thus acting as the observer; they are more likely to attribute this behavior to the person’s overall disposition than as a result of situational factors. This frequent error shows...   (More...)
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news and updates
  • May 12th, 2009
    PsychWiki reached over 1,000,000 page views today!
  • January 10th, 2009
    Today marks the 10,000th Page Edit. Thank you to all contributors, editors, and reviewers for your hard work and dedication to PsychWiki!
  • March 25th, 2008
    We added a new feature called "Short Titles" where you can use simpler article names in the URL as an alternative to the normal naming system. For example, the PsychWiki page on aggression is "http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/Aggression" but you can also access it now by "aggression.psychwiki.com"
  • November 19th, 2007
    We installed a new footnote function so that you can use footnoting to make it easier for the reader to find relevant information. See the Help! section about how to footnote.
  • August 1st, 2007
    In order to improve the "search" function, we installed "case sensitivity" so that the search function will try to capitalize all words in a string if it does not get a match with regular case sensitivity.
  • January 4th, 2007
    We upgraded the Mediawiki software to provide more functionality to the site. Let us know if you see any errors or bugs caused by the upgrade.
  • September 9th, 2006
    We created a new editing tool where putting double brackets around text that ends in a "date" creates a link to Google Scholar: for example, typing this: [[Baron and Kenny, 1986]], creates this: Baron and Kenny, 1986.
  • August 28th, 2006
    We created a new mainpage today, what do you think! Comments and suggestions are welcome. Contact us here.

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