Franklin & Marshall College

Information About Graduate School in Psychology
 

Finding and applying to graduate programs:

http://www.psychgrad.org/
This site is an excellent place to start.  It is one of the best on the Web.

http://www.apa.org/students/student3.html
The American Psychological Association's tips on getting into graduate school.  Also includes guidelines for accepting offers from graduate programs.

http://www.rider.edu/%7Esuler/gradschl.html
Excerpt from the Rider University student handbook, with a summary of the graduate school application process and explanations of different types of graduate programs.

http://www.gre.org 
Homepage for the Graduate Record Examinations.  Free practice exams are available.

Writing a personal statement for graduate applications:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_perstate.html

http://chronicle.com/jobs/2004/02/2004021901c.htm

http://psych.hanover.edu/handbook/applic2.html

Careers in Psychology

General information:

http://www.socialpsychology.org/career.htm#careertips

http://www.apa.org/students/

http://www.apa.org/students/student1.html

http://www.psychwww.com/careers/index.htm

Clinical/counseling psychology:

http://www.noctrl.edu/academics/departments/psychology/department_site/Careers.Counseling.htm

Social work:

http://www.socialworkers.org/profession/overview.asp

Industrial/Organizational psychology:

http://www.siop.org
The Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

http://www.siop.org/
GTP Graduate training programs in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

General Psychology

http://www.psychologicalscience.org
Homepage for the American Psychological Society.

http://www.apa.org
Homepage for the American Psychological Association.

APA style guide

http://www.wooster.edu/psychology/apa-crib.html
Useful site for understanding and using the APA Publication Manual.

Personality Psychology

http://www.spsp.org
Homepage for the Society on Personality and Social Psychology. Includes useful links to related organizations, Psychology journals, and departments of Psychology, as well as resources for teaching and advising.

http://personality-project.org/personality.html
An excellent general source for information in Personality Psychology.

Archives for Psychological Data

http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/overview/index/htm
The Murray Center contains over 270 datasets which can be accessed after registering on the site.

http://www.uakron.edu/ahap
Archives of the history of Psychology

http://www.fmridc.org
Images from the functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Center at Dartmouth College, operated by Michael Gazzaniga et al.

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACDA
National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, maintained by the Inter-University Consortium for political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.

http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth
Database of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. It contains data from a longitudinal, school-based survey of the social context, personal decisions, and health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7-12, as well as associated personal and personality variables for the 90,000+ respondents.

Grant Information

http://www.nsf.gov
Homepage for the National Science Foundation.

http://www.nih.gov
Homepage for the National Institutes of Health.

http://www.cur.org
Homepage for the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). This national organization helps to strengthen the research programs of faculty in predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and promotes research by undergraduate students of the natural and social sciences, as well as of mathematics. The CUR believes that education is best served by faculty-student collaborative research combined with investigative teaching strategies. The CUR generates awareness and national support for undergraduate research.

/departments/grants/Default.html
Page on the F&M site with links to sites on internal and external grants for students and faculty. A good source.