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PsycArticles (APA) This link opens in a new window From the American Psychological Association (APA), this database is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed, scholarly, and scientific articles in psychology. Contains full text from nearly 80 journals and coverage spans from 1894 to present.
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Films On Demand (Psychology) Contains over 1,500 videos on many areas of psychology such as abnormal, applied, biological, developmental and social.
Alexander Street Videos (Psychology & Counseling) Includes therapy sessions, documentaries, interviews, keynote presentations, transcripts, client narratives and psychological experiments online. The content covers a vast range of client issues such as addiction, autism, depression, grief, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide. It also highlights the psychology behind human behavior with studies on conformity, power, obedience, responsibility, aggression, and conditioning.

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Behavioral Neuroscience Academic journal from the American Psychological Association
Evolution and Human Behavior A peer reviewed journal, presenting research reports and theory in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior (full text from 1997 to present).
Journal of Comparative Psychology Peer reviewed journal covering original empirical and theoretical research from a comparative perspective on the behavior, cognition, perception, and social relationships of diverse species (full text from 1983 to present).
Learning and Motivation A peer reviewed journal publishing articles concerned with learning, cognition, and motivation, based on laboratory or field studies of either humans or animals.
Physiology & Behavior A peer reviewed journal covering the causal physiological mechanisms of behavior and its modulation by environmental factors.
Behavioral Neuroscientist and Comparative Psychologist (Newsletter) A newsletter of Div. 6 of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Experimental Psychology Bulletin (Newsletter) A newsletter of Division 3 of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Division 3: Experimental Psychology From the American Psychological Association
Division 6: Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology From the American Psychological Association
Division 25: Behavior Analysis From the American Psychological Association
Interview with Dr. Alligood From the American Psychological Association

Have you ever seen this hidden camera show on ABC? It is amazing to see what motivates some people to speak up and others to stay quiet.

PSY420: Human Motivation
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