Useful Links & Info

Useful Links

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Professional Organizations

American Psychological Association

Association for Psychological Science

Turkish Psychological Association

Society for Research in Child Development

International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development 

Society for Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology (APA Division 53)

Developmental Psychology (APA Division 7)

Zero to Three: National Center for Toddlers, Infants, and Families

National Institute of Mental Health

International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Psychonomic Society

Recommended Contemporary Popular Psychology Books [and most relevent area(s)]

Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (Banaji & Greenwald, 2013) [Social]

Whistling Vivaldi:  How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Steele, 2011) [Social]

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty:  How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves (Ariely, 2012) [Social]

Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert, 2007) [Social, Cognitive]

Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman, 2013) [Social, Cognitive]

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Cialdini, 2006) [Social]

Strangers to Ourselves:  Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (Wilson, 2004) [Social, Clinical]

The Illusion of Conscious Will (Wegner, 2003) [Social, Cognitive, Neuroscience]

The Two Sexes:  Growing Apart, Coming Together (Maccoby, 1999) [Developmental, Social]

Cindrella Ate My Dauther: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture (Orenstein, 2012) [Developmental]

Love at Good Park: Harry Hallow and the Science of Affection (Blum, 2011) [Developmental]

Lost Boys : Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them (Garbarino, 2000) [Developmental, Clinical]

Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting (Gottman, Declaire & Goleman, 1998) [Developmental, Clinical]

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Turke, 2012) [Developmental, Social]

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (Sacks & Davis, 1995) [Clinical, Psychobiology]

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Jamison, 1997) [Clinical]

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (Jamison, 1996) [Clinical]

Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Damasio, 1995) [Cognitive, Neuroscience]

Looking for Spinoza:  Joy, Sorrow, and the Brain (Damasio, 2003) [Cognitive, Neuroscience]

A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers (Ramachandran, 2004) [Cognitive, Neuroscience]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Sacks, 1998) [Cognitive, Neuroscience]

The Man With A Shattered World: The History of a Brain Wound (Luria, 1972) [Cognitive, Neuroscience]

Consciousness Explained (Dennett, 1993) [Cognitive, Neuroscience]

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human (Ridley, 2003) [Genetics] 

The Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859) [Evolution]

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Wells, 2002) [Evolution]

Understanding Evolution (Kampourakis, 2014) [Evolution]

Recommended Psychology Classics

Man's Search for Meaning (Frankl, 1946)

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Rogers, 961)

Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Milgram, 1974)