Psychology
On this page you will find OER specific to psychology that include ebooks, lectures, videos, tutorials and other supplemental materials for use in your classroom or for independent learning, plus other useful resources.
Open Education Resources (OER) in Psychology
Watch this video to discover a range of OER available for psychology courses:
Ebooks
Psychology (OpenStax)
"Psychology is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe."
Psychology Textbooks (Noba)
A platform where you can browse psychology modules and open digital texts. All materials are licensed under Creative Commons that lets you use, reuse, adapt, and remix chapters and whole texts to customize your classroom.
Lectures, Tutorials, and Online Courses
The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food (Open Yale Courses)
"This course encompasses the study of eating as it affects the health and well-being of every human. Topics include taste preferences, food aversions, the regulation of hunger and satiety, food as comfort and friendship, eating as social ritual, and social norms of blame for food problems."
Supplemental Materials
Cogent Psychology is an open access journal replete with articles dealing with various topics in psychology, all of which are freely available to everyone.
Other Useful Resources
The Many Faces of Psychological Research in the 21st Century (Society for the Teaching of Psychology)
This freely available ebook, edited by Jane S. Halonen & Stephen F. Davis contains 13 chapters by psychology teachers, each covering a different topic. The book is on a website that contains many other resources tailored to teachers of psychology.
License
The resources used in this guide are released under Creative Commons Licenses.
This guide was adapted by Sarah Guy from the UNCG Guide "Open Educational Resources" by Beth Bernhardt.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.