Psychology Resources
YouTube Videos
RSA Animated "Smile or Die"
Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking.
RSA Animated "Drive"
Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
RSA Animated "Empathetic Civilisation"
Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
RSA Animated "Choice"
Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?
Malcolm Gladwell on Spaghetti Sauce
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness. This link takes you to Ed.Ted lesson plans and resources about this piece.
Martin Seligman on Positive Psychology
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become? This link takes you to Ed.Ted lesson plans and resources about this piece.
Books, Movies, & Documentaries
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Sybil
- American Graffiti
- Nutty Professor
- Flowers for Algernon
- Frankenstein
Websites
- Psychology Today- Extensive resource of articles that focus both on the content area and popular culture.
- Here is an example of the type of material that you can find on YouTube already organized for the classroom. This is a automatically compiled list (done by YouTube) is devoted to the Milgram Experiment, and features videos of the experiment, about the experiment, explanations on various levels, and pieces about the implications. It needs to be gone through to find the most appropriate video, however, it does give a number of options.
- Google Books offers online versions of many books free because they have gone past their copyright date. For example, here is the link to Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. Some of the books are complete, some are excerpts, and you can copy & pasted from many of them.
- There are some great infographics out there about different theories that may be helpful, here is just one example about consumers.