| Gwendolyn Warnica | My thesis will be on the relationships/connections of
terror management theory (TMT), pain tolerance, and self-awareness. I was
interested to see what was on the web for TMT as I
assumed there would be more on the other two. This is a relevant webpage as it summarizes and presents TMT- http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/courses/TMT2.html This page was not as relevant as it it the site of the Ernest Becker foundation. It is interesting as TMT is rooted in his work but not relevant to my thesis. http://faculty.washington.edu/nelgee/ |
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| Amy Hanisch | Here are my internet pages that I found related to adult
attachment styles:
1) http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Shaver/apasum.html I found this one very relevant. Shaver is one of the leading
researchers for this topic, and it also had different measurements related
to attachment styles, it answered interesting questions from people, and had other info on the topic. There were actually quite a few irrelevant sites. This one focused on
Israeli students assessed following the Gulf War. I don't think it is very relevant for research in adult attachment styles. |
| Lesley Johnson | 1) http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/effpage.html This site was made by a professor at Emory, and gives an overview of self-efficacy, links to other websites, links to researchers and graduate students conducting work in this area, links to institutions where such research is being conducted, information on Bandura, links to various measures of self-efficacy, and instruction on how to find more information (on the web) about self-efficacy. This site could be helpful both in finding relevant research, and in finding interesting Ph.D. programs. 2) http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~health/preprint.htm This site lists abstracts of articles related to stress, health, and self-efficacy. It turned out to be less relevant because none of the abstracts are related to my specific area of focus. (However, it does have other links to health psychology, SE assessments, etc.) |
| Linda Thede | I will be doing my thesis on Asperger Syndrome and have identified two
web sites as follows. The first web site
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism/page10.html is very good. The information contained in it seems empirically sound based on other
reading I have done. The writers are careful to cite researchers who are well-known in this area, and the information offered is up-to-date. The only
limitations are that only Yale studies are discussed. This does not give the reader
the opportunity to see what else is going on in the field. http://sexualhealth.com/autism.htm It is written by a journalist, is somewhat negative and based almost entirely on opinion. It does not
offer much empirical evidence and lacks depth of coverage on the issue. |
| Jessica Corcoran | For my thesis, I am looking at the comorbidity of personality
traits/disorders with particular Axis I Disorders. As such, I found
http://personalitydisorders.mentalhelp.net to be a relevant site for me as it included a wide variety of information concerning the causes, symptoms and treatment of personality disorders. A web site I found concerning personality disorders that is not relevant to my thesis is http://www.verysimple.com/personality/links.html I found this site to be interesting as it allows you to take several different personality tests (determining if you are a
Type A person) but it does not contain any information that is useful to me. |
| Kelley Geddes | I hope it's okay that I chose to do a search on autism. My research here with Tom is based on
romantic relationships and TMT, but I work with autistic children. I'm going to a conference in
Denver in February and I wanted to get some information anyway so I could sound really smart
when I talk to people there! The best site I found was http://www.autism-society.org/ .
I feel that most of the time well known organizations have pretty accurate and reliable information on their
websites. This site tells you how to join the society, get put on a mailing list, be informed of
conferences, and updated on new research ideas. Another pretty good site on autism is It's composed of information compiled by a father It was just a humorous presentation of Gates being |
| Deb Mason |
Employee Assistance Programs Relevant site for the employee. I don't think this sight would be of
benefit to use in a thesis, but for information purposes it appears to be very good. Also relevant for EAP professionals only. |
| Dan Obarski | This first website pertains to my thesis because I am looking at sex
(gender) and politics, and specifically voting behavior and the characteristics
of candidates to the presidency. This website looks generally at women and
politics. http://www.westga.edu/~wandp/w+p.html This second site provides more data on women in politics. A better site
might emphasize the psychological underpinnings of women and candidacy, but
this is basically appropriate (and informative). |
| Rachel Gilbert | I found two sites about drug use, abuse, and addiction. The
relevant site is www.wnet.org/archive/closetohome/home.html based on Bill Moyers' documentary for PBS. It is a good overview of the social, political, and biological issues involved in this area. I was impressed by how much material was covered in an efficient but highly personal manner. I was even more impressed by the irrelevant site, however. www.addiction2.com was a site describing a slightly inaccurate theory of addiction (for instance, that prolonged drug use creates a "biochemical personality" in the user) and advertised Narconon, a non-traditional treatment center for addiction. Perhaps the best feature of this site was Kirstie Alley's assertion that Narconon saved her life. |
| Linda Najjar | My topic is "Gender Bias and Age Bias in Diagnosis." I searched through
Yahoo and found 5 sites, 4 of which were not useful and 1 that was. A relevant site: http://www.mmhc.com/jgsm/articles/JGSM9902/andersen_jan.html This site is relevant to my research topic because it discusses the This site is also a journal article, however it is not related to my |
| Brian Bianco | My thesis proposal will focus mainly on the application of jury instructions by jurors and how they use these instructions to make decisions in jury trials. The first site I found, http://matrixcognition.com/PARALLEL.HTM was interesting because it went into the dynamics of decision-making and how a jury goes about making decisions-going first from individual thought processes on the making of a decision to a more comprehensive group effort. This site is relevant because it deals with how juries make decisions and how they make decisions is a function of the instructions they receive and how they use them. The second site I found, http://www.forensic-psych.com/articles/artRxjury.html was interesting because it explained how attorneys can manipulate emotions in jurors to get them to make decisions in their favor. It also goes on to suggest how to make jurors better decision-makers by involving them more in the trial process, such as the judge using questions for witnesses that were posed by members of the jury and so forth. This site is not relevant, however, because my focus is on the application of jury instructions to make them better decision-makers, not how lawyers can manipulate them into making decisions or how to involve them more in the courtroom experience. |
| Nicole Hetz | The following are different websites that I found to be relevant and irrelevant to my thesis proposal. The first one contains a survey conducted on the web to find out about characteristics of pedophiles. The survey results are found at: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~gravilabs/pedophilia/stats.html (Note: There apparently was some problem with the survey. The n of respondents was set back from 117 to 0 on 1/25/2000 and people are being asked to fill out the survey again. You can look at the survey itself by clicking on the "Back to the survey page" link at the bottom of the results page. This is an interesting use of survey methodology on the web. -L.A.B.) This is the mental health net web on pedophilia symptoms: http://suicide.mentalhelp.net/disorders/sx63.htm Answers to Commonly Asked Questions About Child Sexual Abuse: http://www.stopitnow.com/answers.html
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| Mark Landau | Recently, social
psychological research has begun to broaden its focus to include the role
of self-processes in social behavior (for a review, see Baumeister, 1999.
The Self in Social Psychology). Of course, the challenge is to
operationally define abstract "self-processes" and their
subsequent effects on social behavior. In other words, delineating the
structure of the self is most likely a necessary prerequisite for
understanding its place in social spheres. Still regarded as a major
contribution, William James postulated the distinction between the
"I" and the "Me" aspects of self, the I being the
subjective agent, the Me being the "empirical aggregate of things
objectively known." An interesting consideration would be to see how
the distinct processes associated with the I and the Me would affect,
among other things, interpersonal attraction and feelings of closeness. My
research proposal attempts to fill these theoretical and empirical gaps.
So far, I have found James' original explication of this subtly nuanced I/Me distinction to be useful (#3). (1) and (2) provide a wealth of information concerning contemporary thought and research on the self and its social implications. So, why is #4 "bad"? In distinguishing valuable internet resources from dross, I think its necessary to consider (at least) two factors: ethical neutrality (precise and cautious analysis instead of difference to authority or preaching what "ought" to be), and adequate regard to existing work (instead of perpetually re-inventing the wheel). Sites 1,2, and 3 have these qualities, 4 does not. good: 1. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/inner.htm 2. http://weba.uwgb.edu/humdev/gurung.htm#soc 3. http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/classics/James/Principles/prin10.htm bad: |
| Ivan Molton | I am presently looking at the relationship between Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory and goal setting behavior in predicting PTSD symptoms for disaster victims. I am using some of Chip's data on the Oklahoma City bombing and the Buffalo Creek fire & floods... Most disaster PTSD info on the web is pretty general; not a lot of work has been done in this area. This is a link to the Australasian journal of Traumatic Stress http://www.massey.ac.nz/~trauma A general reference data base on disaster PTSD articles, based This site isn't very useful for my applications... |
| Alicia Coughlin | These are the websites I found interesting: http://www.msbp.com/Ericmart.htm This website was interesting because it explained how Munchausen This website provides several interesting case studies of |
| Dina Dunn | http://www.ncjrs.org Justice Information Center. Information about courts, corrections, victims, research
and evaluation, abstracts database. Very interesting and many, many links. ASAM: American Society of Addiction Medicine. This includes an on-line journal with web links (University & Research Institutions, Professional organizations). A great deal
of information on addictions, some info. on research/money for doctoral work, etc. The Mission of the American Society of Addiction Medicine:
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