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Welcome to the Psychology Wiki

The Psychology Wiki is one of the largest psychology resources on the internet. It currently has over 8,925 pages covering 34,782 articles. It was started in January 2006.

What is the Psychology Wiki?

The Psychology Wiki is an offshoot of the popular Wikipedia site, which is an online, user contribution orientated encyclopedia. The Psychology Wiki was started by a group of professional psychologists who decided that a single reference site containing all of the information contained within psychology as a discipline would be an invaluable tool to clinical professionals, academics, students and other interested parties.

This site aims to provide an up-to-date, authoritative statement of knowledge, theory, and practice in the whole field of psychology. It is written to serve academic needs at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, to inform professionals, both in training and in the field, and to provide information for the people we seek to help.

Using the same software as the Wikipedia site, the Psychology Wiki is intended to slowly develop through contributions from its users. Initially much of the information is identical to that on the Wikipedia site; however it is envisaged that the Psychology Wiki will go into much greater depth.

As the intended users of the Wiki are professionals and students within Psychology, there is much greater potential for the articles and information to be of a higher standard than is the case in Wikipedia, due to a greater level of expertise. Another aim of the site is allow users of psychologic & psychiatric services to comment on their experiences in seperate discussion areas, linked to each article.

The completed Psychology Wiki is intended to have link every academic reference and paper, either on-site (elsewhere in the Psychology Wiki) or off-site (to external sources, eg. PubMed). This was the original intention of the internet, allowing scientists to quickly cross reference papers with their colleagues in related fields.

Finally, the Psychology Wiki will have extensive indexing, allowing easy navigation from one subject to another, as well as extensive cross-linking of keywords to different subjects, which will be familiar to users of wikipedia.

How do I USE the Psychology Wiki?

Terms and keywords can be searched for in the search box (to the left side of the screen). It is also possible to search for terms using the sites indexing, for example:

For newcomers our orientation section and help section should ease you into the site. If you were looking for it, here is an introduction to psychology.

For a fuller introductory experience go to the Psychology Wiki:Community Portal.

How do I CONTRIBUTE to the Psychology Wiki?

A wiki is a new sort of web page that you can edit and you are cordially invite to contribute to this collaborative project.

All information should be factually correct and properly referenced. However, in the discussion pages for any particular topic, we encourage alternative opinion, proposals for hypotheses requiring verification, practitioner reports, user views, etc.

The main entry links

The links below lead to a series of further links forming a skeleton underpinning the structure of the site.

From here you are no more than five clicks away from any field.

Foundations Philosophy & psychology Psychometric assessment Statistics & mathematics Human experimental psychology Comparative psychology Biological psychology Language & communication Developmental psychology Social processes & social issues Social psychology Psychology of personality	Applied psychology Clinical psychology & psychotherapy Professional items Educational psychology Industrial & organisational psychology Other specialist fields of psychology Transpersonal psychology World psychology