Link for this Post: yourpsyche.org

Here is an excerpt from the site:

YourPsyche.org is a place where you can learn about yourself and your fellow human beings. We enable you to get information about your personality, beliefs and behavioral tendencies (as well as those of others) by participating in our surveys and experiments. A list of the currently available studies is available to give you a better idea of the kinds of things we're trying to understand. 

Looks like a good place for psychological research to get exposure to their projects.

Link for this Post: Typealyzer

Can a blog have a personality. After all, it is written by a person and the person has a personality.

Tyepealzer is an online program that ventures to analyze the unique personality of a blog, based on the personality model of Carl Jung.

According to Typealyzer, this blog is a stolid hardworking type called the ISTJ. The "I" is for introverted so that the blog or author or both are more introverted than extroverts.

The Psychology of Blogging has an "N" which means that the personality ot the weblog relies more on se on its immediate sensations rather than on intuition. It lacks that "visioin thing.".

The "T" stands for thinking. This blog thinks rather than feels. Thanks a lot.

Finally the  J means that this blog relies more on judgment than perception. I'd have to go a nd look that one up.

The self-improvment genre weblog has become one of the dominant themes in the blogosphere. Personal development blogs of every type abound.

One of them, Self Improvement Sites offers a top ten list of the 10 best personal development web logs on the web.

I've been stuck in the twilght zone with that regard. I've been working on the same essay, a literature review about studying writers for the past three years. I am on a third draf. Each of the previous two drafts were extensivly revised.

Tedious is a good way to describe the process of writing this literature review. A literature review has the most references of any type of psycology paper and this one is no exception. Revising the paper required returning to the original sources for many of the references.

Add to the tasks already mentioned, the difficulty of working with a variety of PDF formats, some of which contain no text, ust an image  and the work becomes full of stops and starts.

Link for this post : Pocket Full of Words by Holly Lisle.

Holly Lisle is  author of Midnight Rain, Last Girl Dancing; Talyn; and Locus fantasy bestsellers Diplomacy of Wolves, Vengeance of Dragons, Courage of Falcons, and Fire in the Mist, as well as many more novels.

Here site is quite elaborate including an extensive catalog of books and workshops, an online community and much more.

Ken Gofmann also known as RU Sirius interviews several of his writing buddies including: Erik Davis, Mark Dery, Jay Kinney, Paul Krassner, Adam Parfrey, Douglas Rushkoff and John Shirley

Note: Image from 10 Zen Monkies website

This site is a basic resource for essay writing. I've put the links page as at the top of this post.

This is what the site says about itself:

An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. You may be writing an essay to argue for a particular point of view or to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, your essay will have the same basic format. If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself. You will be responsible only for supplying ideas, which are the important part of the essay anyway.

Use the link at the top to access this sie.

Here is an article which surprisingly opened me up to a whole new field of psychological study: called "Virtual Environments and Behavior" at one of my Alma Matters UC Santa Barbara (I got my Masters in Psychology there in 1981).

Here is an excerpt from the beginning of the EWeek piece:

Money is the motivation for scam-spam. The motivation for clicking on it is far less straightforward, and none of us is immune.

"It's not like certain people are going to be nailed by spam all the time. Or that there are certain motivations that will just [always] trigger people [who respond] to spam scams. It's really the interplay between personality and motivation, emotion—all sorts of things," said Dr. James Blascovich, professor of psychology at UC Santa Barbara and co-director of the university's Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior.

"It's a little more complex, but not much different from the complex interplay of psychological factors that get people to succumb to any sort of scam."

The idea that none of us are immune is the main takeaway from a report titled "Mind Games: A psychological analysis of common e-mail scams," that Blascovich and McAfee published on June 25 . . .

Note: The picture at the top is from the article and introduces an interesting slide-show series done in conjunction with the article called  "Sucking the Gullible Into 'Scam-Spam'

The PsyBlog psychology blog have made their picks for the best web logs on the subject of psychology in various categories. Here is an excerpt from part one of their awards show:

Discover the most accessible, well-written psychology blogs available on the web. Every now and then, as every good blogger should, I update my links to other psychology blogs - that's the list of links on the far right of the page. It's a real treat to see the breadth, quality and sometimes sheer quirkiness of the psychology blogging going on out there. To help you navigate all this fabulous information, I'll be compiling a list of my favorites over the next few posts.

As nowadays there's loads of good blogs around, this is only a small sample that concentrates on blogs that are accessible to everyone.So here's the first part of my guide to both what's new and cool and what's well-established and still cool in the psychology blog-o-sphere.

Read the rest at the top of this post