Psychology

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  • A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Psychology of Eyewitness Memory [ ] - As the defense attorney, review testimony and decide if your client is the victim of mistaken identity. Includes links to cited sources and questions to assist in making a decision.
  • Beautycheck [ ] - Details a research project at two universities in Germany on facial attractiveness. Includes why some faces are considered more attractive, average faces, morphing of images, and social perceptions.
  • Being Left Handed [ ] - Simple explanation for elementary school students of what it is like to be left-handed. Includes examples of famous lefties.
  • Classics in the History of Psychology [ ] - Offers full texts of documents significant in the history of psychology by author or by topic. Includes ancient, medieval/renaissance, and modern thought; behaviorism, cognition, intelligence testing, personality, and social psychology.
  • Color Matters [ ] - Learn how color affects appetite, vision, and energy conservation. Includes color's relationship to architecture and interior design.
  • Correlation [ ] - Examines the relationships between variables in psychological studies. Includes an exercise in which students determine the correlation between two variables and offer possible explanations.
  • Epsych: Journeys in Mind [ ] - Teaches about psychological processes and the nature of thinking via interactive demonstrations, experiments, and video clips.
  • Extrasensory Perception [ ] - Provides synopsis of psychological research from a professor of psychology. Includes whether it really exists, claims of ESP, perception versus pretention, and experiment results.