Dr Michelle Borba’s Parenting Secrets

Each week Michele Borba (author, parenting expert and educational psychologist) answers parenting questions on her blog. One of a number of blogs appearing on iVillage. The RSS feed contains the latest posts added to her blog.

Improved Lives

Improved Lives is a blog by university graduate “Stu”. It focuses on how psychology (and especially positive psychology) can be used for personal growth and covers topics typically addressed in self-help blog such as creativity, goal setting, happiness, productivity, motivation, life purpose, health & relationships. The RSS feed contains the latest posts added to the blog.

Positive Psychology News Daily

Positive Psychology News Daily is the work of multiple authors, most of whom are graduates of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program at the University of Pennsylvania or guest authors. In their own words, the blog/website “provides the latest news about happiness, the “science of happiness,” and Positive Psychology. Our goal is to be your fun, collaborative place for a research-based daily boost of happiness. In writing about positive psychology, we are strongly influenced by some of the wonderful speakers at the MAPP program, and by other positive psychology, psychology, sociology, neurobiology, computer science, and other researchers whose work we highlight on this daily news site”. The RSS feed contains the latest posts added to the blog.

University of Warwick: Psychology Society

The society of Psychology students at the University of Warwick have set up their own homepage/blog which acts as a forum where students can talk amongst themselves about whatever fascinates them; a blog where students can share interesting info, videos, songs, essays and whatever really gets them going about psychology; and a calendar where members can see what is happening and get involved. The RSS feed contains links to the latest content added to the site.

Illusion Sciences

Illusion Sciences is a blog by Associate Professor Arthur Shapiro from Bucknell University, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience. His blog is a place to showcase and discuss the various “illusions” that he (along with his vision scientist colleagues) create in order to study visual perception. The RSS feed contains the latest illusions added to the blog.

Dr Mezmer’s Bad Psychology

Dr Mezmer’s Bad Psychology contains “satirical and otherwise ironic comments on psychology, from the idiot who brings you Dr. Mezmer’s World of Bad Psychology (drmezmer.com)”. An opportunity to explore the amusing and absurd in the world of psychology. The RSS feed contains the latest posts added to the blog.

Blogs @ Psychology Today

Psychology Today, popular online and print psychology magazine now publishes a range of blogs across multiple topics from “Addiction” to “Young Americans”. Multiple authors contribute to their large blogging sub-site. There are multiple RSS feeds (for each individual blog) as well as an aggregated RSS feed for all the blogs combined. I will slowly get around to including all the blogs in the database!

Woman and Child First

Woman and Child First is a blog by Australian psychologist Alison Tuck. Her blog focusses on issues relating to women and children, but with a strong Arts angle as well. As Alison puts it “this blog delves into the psyche of its author who is a woman with children and who has made a life’s work out of the study and practice of psychology and writing”. The RSS feed contains the latest posts added to the blog.

The Sex Addicted Brain

The Sex Addicted Brain is a blog by clinical psychologist/neuropsychologist Dr Sarah Ullman. Sarah specializes in the “social neuroscience of sexual addiction, trauma, and arousal dysregulation” and her blog provides social, legal, community, political & scientific commentary on adult disorders arising from childhood trauma. The RSS feed contains the latest content added to her blog.

Dr. Deb - Psychological Perspectives

Dr. Deb - Psychological Perspectives is a blog by psychologist Dr Deb Serani. The blog addresses “current issues and articles that impact the human psyche” and traverses a wide range of topics. A popular/award winning consumer-oriented blog. The RSS feed contains the latest posts added to the blog.