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80 STUDY SKILLS FOR PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS
3.3 Surfing the web and evaluating what you find
We have given this a section on its own because although it is largely common
sense, it is really important that you develop your critical skills for distinguishing
the wheat from the chaff. All sources on the web should be treated with great
caution unless you know who set them up and edits them. There are plenty
of nutters out there and psychology attracts its share of them. Web addresses
are a good guide and some reliable and valuable resources include those listed
below.
• Websites of other universities and research institutes:
in Britain these have .ac.uk in their web address
in the United States and Australia, they have .edu in their address.
If you have read a paper on a topic you are researching, put the author’s name
and their university into Google and you will usually come up with their web
page. Many researchers, keen to have their papers read as widely as possible,
will have electronic copies of their papers available through this page, usually
as pdf files.
• Websites set up by researchers whose papers you have read: so, for example,
Simon Baron Cohen who works in the Department of Experimental
Psychology at Cambridge University, as well as being Ali G’s cousin, has