Psychology links

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www.psychwww.com - Psych Web, an excellent resource for students and teachers of psychology. The huge list of links alone would make it a good visit.
www.prisonexp.org - Anyone who has taken Psychology 101 has heard of the prison experiment conducted by Zimbardo et. al. at Stanford. This site gets into much more detail than your introductory psychology class probably did, with a slide show, video clips, and the thoughts of the experimenters while it was taking place. I had a chance to see Zimbardo talk while he was at Baldwin-Wallace College, and he is a dynamic, captivating speaker. His website is just as engrossing.
www.apa.org - The American Psychological Association
www.psych.org - The American Psychiatric Association
www.apsa.org - The American Psychoanalytic Association
www.cwu.edu/~warren/today.html - Today in the history of psychology.
www.keirsey.com - Keirsey Temperament Sorter and Keirsey Temperament Theory web site. Take the test here or get information of the types of personalities revealed by this test. I'm an ENFP.
ibiblio.org/personality - The alt.psychology.personality archives at UNC-Chapel Hill. Their home page, ibiblio.org has a great number of resources on all sorts of other topics.
www.csa.com/discoveryguides/archives/neuroimage.php - "Imagining Imagination" from the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Hot Topics Series. The complete list of topics can be found at www.csa.com/discoveryguides/discoveryguides-all.php.
www.netpsych.com - Net Psychology explores the online delivery of mental health services.
phobialist.com - Names of over 500 phobias, resources for treatment, how phobias are named, and quotes about fear or fearlessness.
http://mensa.dk/testiq.html - An IQ test based entirely on pattern recognition. Have I mentioned how much I hate this section of IQ tests? That may be why I scored only 124, which disqualifies me for Mensa according to this test, which is rather odd, as I am a member of Mensa. The text is in Danish, but the test isn't.
www.emode.com - All sorts of personality, career, interest, and other kinds of tests, usually light-hearted.
www.armory.com/tests/nerd500.html - The 500 Point Nerdity Test is a little like the MMPI, only a lot more fun. But that's not really saying much. I scored 52.2% (261/500), which I think is both a little high and a little low at the same time.
www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdomality.html - The Kingdomality Test from Career Management International will tell you your medieval vocational personality. I am a Discoverer.
quiz.ravenblack.net/videogame.pl - What Pre-1985 Video Game Character Am I? Well, I'm a Breakout Bat.
www.bbspot.com/News/2004/10/extension_quiz.php - Which file extension are you? I'm a .gif.
www.bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php - Which operating system are you? I'm HP-UX. Whew--at least it's a flavor of Unix.
www.bbspot.com/News/2004/04/nigerian_quiz.php - Yet another BBspot quiz: Which Nigerian Spammer are you? Appropriately enough, I'm Larry Koffi.
www.zenhex.com/tests.php - Which tarot card are you? I'm a Strength. There are quite a few more tests here, of varying quality.
www.tk421.net/character/ - Which science fiction character are you? I'm Captain Kirk.
test.thespark.com/gendertest/ - This uncannily accurate gender test works on the principle that "guys and girls are different in ways only we realize. In fact, without asking about your clothes, grooming, or penis, our Gender Test can predict, with 100% accuracy, whether you're a guy or a girl."
www.allthetests.com - Even more self-tests.
tcup.currentform.com - The Collective Unconsciousness Project. A project that attempts to make connections in dream materials by exploring an expanding database that relies on your own contributions of dreams. A flash interface allows you to wander the dreamscape of others.
www.mundanebehavior.org - The Journal of Mundane Behavior from the Department of Sociology at Cal State Fullerton. Their articles focus on "those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals," such as the relationship between social structures inside and outside of elevators in Japan, or a history of human attitudes towards dust. Submissions are also accepted for peer review.
www.total.net/~fishnet/index.html - For Sale By Mental Patient. This is a funny site, with odd items--or regular items taken in odd ways--up for a mock auction. Don't bother going if you take psychology so seriously you can't laugh at it sometimes.
web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/synesthesia.html - A good resource on synaesthesia.
www.asdreams.org - The Association for the Study of Dreams
www.happyhub.com/network/malebrain/ - A lighthearted schematic of the male human brain.
www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html - This is the 3-D anatomy of the brain from the PBS series The Secret Life of the Brain.
www.howstuffworks.com/brain.htm - A very basic primer on the brain. Useful if you're just getting into neuroscience, but not much more.
www.sandlotscience.com - Hundreds of optical illusions.
www.personalityresearch.org - "Great Ideas in Personality Research" contains several modules that sum up the ongoing research in many different fields, such as behavorial genetics, intelligence, interpersonal theory, personality disorders, basic emotion, and several more.
www.closertotruth.com - Although the website takes on such grand questions as the "Grand Questions of Science" and "Why is Quantum Physics So Beautiful?", its divisions called "Brain & Mind" and "Creatitivity and Thinking" make it a good source for state-of-the-art debate on psychological topics.
www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20030107hstupid2.asp - Why do smart people do stupid things?
www.prozacspotlight.org - This website certainly wasn't written by the marketing department of Lilly, the makers of Prozac (fluoxetine). It follows major wrongful death lawsuits that link its use to homicides, suicides and other depravities, raises questions about clinical research findings, drug-prescribing practices and how a nation in malaise deals with individual's depression and anxiety, and includes a group forum for discussion of users' negative and positive experiences.

Freud

users.rcn.com/brill/freudarc.html - A very comprehensive catalogue of links to Freud’s works, including the complete text of The Interpretation of Dreams.
freud.t0.or.at - The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna. Contains some video and audio clips as well as other information.

Artificial Intelligence

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Artificial_intelligence - The Wikipedia category page for AI.
arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/experiments.htm - Experiments in Musical Intelligence, a program written by David Cope that generates musical compositions based on certain styles. In 1997, this program passed a musical Turing Test.
www.turing.org.uk/turing/scrapbook/test.html - The Turing Test page from the Alan Turing Scrapbook contains a wealth of information about this crucial test of intelligence, video, commentary, and a whole lot more.
www.captcha.net - The CAPTCHA project at Carnegie Mellon University is like a reverse Turing Test: instead of trying to determine which is the computer, it concentrates on creating things that are telltale signs of computers. If you've registered at some sites lately, it may be familiar to you.
www.aboutai.net/DesktopDefault.aspx - All about AI on the Net.
www.timestocome.com/software/aisoftware.html - A whole bunch of AI applications, with their C++ and Java source code.
www.mark-weeks.com/chess/97dk$$.htm - Deep Blue vs. Kasparov: the rematch.
www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/learn/html/e.html - IBM's exhibit on the Deep Blue vs. Kasparov match includes the games and essays, including one on the cognition of chess.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/ - A huge article on game theory.
learner.isi.edu - Learner 2.5: A Game of Knowledge. A game where you help to tune an AI's knowledge by answering questions. The closer your answer is to the most common answer, the more points you get for it.
www.logopoeia.com - You can create some computer-generated prose or wisdom here. Racher is much more impressive--especially considering it's about two decades older--but this is an example of how poor the state of automatic prose generation remains to this day.
www.agentland.com - Intelligent agents like Cybelle the chatbot, along with some short articles about agents.
www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/download/ws4LS - IBM's Web Services for Life Sciences, a "collection of examples of Web services for life sciences: Pubmed, GenBank, BLAST, Phylogenic Tree, and ClustalW."
www.arch.columbia.edu/DDL/cad/A4513/S2001/r7/ - John Holland's classic paper on genetic algorithms.
www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2747 - A Novermber 2005 article on a computers vs. humans team match. The computers thoroughly trounced the human team 8-4 even though it consisted of three former FIDE World Champions!

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