Video Links

The Soldier’s Heart
How are the men and women who serve in the armed forces during wartime changed by their experiences? What is being done to address the social and psychological problems faced by soldiers? This program examines the costs incurred by veterans and considers what is being done (and what should be done) to support them.

Inside the Teenage Brain
Neuroscientists are learning more about the ways in which our brains work and finding provocative explanations for why adolescents think and act in the ways they do. Many of their findings draw attention to the importance of strong family bonds and social relationships for adolescents’ individual development.

Audio Links

Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation
As the United States grows more diverse, more people identify as multiracial. Will the Census keep up?

Learning With Disabilities: One Effort to Shake Up the Classroom
This clip explores the impact of keeping children with disabilities and children without disabilities together during the school day. In so doing, it describes the importance of socialization.

Web Resources

The Society for Personality
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, with over 3,000 members, is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world (self-description).

NORC
The General Social Survey (GSS): The GSS is a regular, ongoing omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. The first survey took place in 1972, and since then more than 40,000 respondents have answered more than 3,500 different questions. From Americans’ racial attitudes to the number of guns owned by women to musical preferences over a lifetime, the General Social Survey measures the trends in American attitudes, experiences, practices, and concerns (self-characterization). 

The Social Psychology Network
The Social Psychology Network is the largest social psychology database on the Internet (self-description).

Implicit Association Test
“It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.”