TCNJ Research & Related Links

The College of New Jersey:

Research Labs
Psychology Faculty
Psychology Club
PIPER (the research participant pool for the TCNJ Psychology Department)
Psychological Counseling Services at TCNJ

Research resources:

PubMed           PsychInfo           TCNJ Library Journal Search


Internships, Jobs, Grad School

Summer research/internship opportunities for undergraduates

Site #1
Site #2 (national science foundation)
Site #3 (biology focused)
Site #4 (neuroscience focused)

Graduate School and Job Opportunities

GPA Calculator from Iowa State University.
GRE exam and practice materials
Personal Statement (SOP) advice

Research Assistanships (postings from CNS)
Grad programs in Neuroscience (postings from ANDP)
Graduate School (powerpoint presentation)
Job Interviewing (powerpoint presentation) -- coming soon!

Graduate School Survival Guide
How to Thrive in Graduate School


Reading List

Society Journals

Eye on Psi Chi (look for print copies around the department)
APS Observer
APA Monitor on Psychology
CNS Newsletter

Cheaper Books and Textbooks (...reading is good for you!!)

Half.com           Textbook X           ABE Books           Amazon (look at the used books option)

Books

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Color Blind by Oliver Sacks
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The Totem Pole by Paul Pritchard (surviving brain damage)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (depression)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (autism/asperger's)
Losing My Mind : An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's by Thomas DeBaggio (alzheimer's)
Sybil by Flora Rheta Schrieba (dissociative identity disorder)
Was It a Rat I Saw? by Sue Perry (split brain surgery to cure epilepsy)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green (schizophrenia)
Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought by Louis A. Sass (schizophrenia and art/literature/modernism)
Opening Skinner's Box by Lauren Slater (see also: controversy)


Fun Stuff

Piled Higher & Deeper (Ph.D. Comics)
The Lighter Side of Psych
Cafe Press (clothes, mugs, magnets, etc. relating to psychology)
Brain & Cognitive Sciences free lecutres from MIT pdf/audio