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WikiProject Psychology
The Greek Psi character, often used as the symbol of psychology
This WikiProject is about Psychology.
CategoryPsychology
Portals Psychology
icon Psychiatry
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Psychology Psychology
Project banner template{{WikiProject Psychology}}
Userbox{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/Userbox}}
Category:Psychology user templates
Has goals?Yes
AssessmentWikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/Assessment
Popular pagesWikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/Popular pages


This is a community dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of psychology, including theories, research, disorders and psychotherapy. Its broad goals are:

  1. To assess psychology-related articles and tag them appropriately when there are problems.
  2. To remove vandalism, original research and spam.
  3. To ensure that articles are based on independent reliable secondary sources.
  4. To represent scientific controversies and scientific consensus fairly, writing articles in a neutral style.
  5. To improve and review articles to Good Article and Featured Article quality.
  6. To create a friendly and supportive atmosphere for editors who want to contribute.
  7. To inform the community about issues that need discussion.

Participants are encouraged to be bold, particularly in enforcing Wikipedia's policies across the relevant articles.

Topic

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Psychology is an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of human and nonhuman animal mental functions and behaviors. In this field, a professional practitioner or researcher is called a psychologist. Psychologists are classified as social or behavioral scientists. Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior, while also exploring underlying physiological and neurological processes.

Basic research in psychology includes perception, cognition, attention, emotion, motivation, brain functioning, personality, behavior, and interpersonal relationships. Some, especially depth psychologists, also consider the unconscious mind. Psychologists employ empirical methods to determine causal and correlational relationships between psychosocial variables. In addition, or in opposition, to employing empirical and deductive methods, clinical psychologists sometimes rely upon symbolic interpretation and other inductive techniques.

High-activity pages

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44 edits Holding space
33 edits Alcohol (drug)
26 edits The Nightmare
25 edits Parkinson's disease
25 edits Global Ikhwan child abuse scandal
24 edits Lee Shulman
22 edits Near-miss effect
21 edits Ronald K. Hoeflin
20 edits Chauvinism
18 edits Autism
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last five days. Last updated 3 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
We have two main ways of tracking high-activity pages. We track the pages with the most views over the previous month - the popular pages. This listing has 1000 entries, so it isn't included here, but you can follow the link (which is also in the tabs, at the top of most of the WikiProject pages). If anyone knows how to do a partial transclusion of a table, please do so, noting that the bot over-writes the page so it can't be edited with "include only" etc.
The other measure is articles which have had the most edits over the last few days - the hot articles. There are fewer of these entries, so they have been listed here.

Tasks

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All tasks can be done by any user, whether or not they're a participant of the WikiProject, and regardless of their level of expertise in psychology (although we do ask that users get help if you want to make changes to a template but you're not sure how to). Priority tasks are:

  1. Welcome new users that are interested in psychology by putting {{subst:Psychology welcome}} ~~~~ on their talk page.
  2. Confirm that our Resources are up to date.
  3. Make the Psychology Barnstar less... early 2010s. Does the default one really need moving parts?
  4. Review the article guide to make sure none of it conflicts with the current MOS. It wasn't edited for a good while and may be out of date.

Priority tasks should generally be SMART, and if there are more than 3 to 5 tasks, they stop being priority tasks.

Extended task list

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For a bot-generated list of discussion alerts, see the article alerts for WikiProject Psychology. Relatedly, see the deletion discussions about pages related to psychology and for pages related to behavioural science as they sometimes include articles that don't yet have our banner on it (and that therefore won't be in our article alerts).

Our stubs can be found in Category:Psychology stubs

Article requests are available for topics and psychologists (or anyone working in psychological fields). If you find an entry that isn't appropriate for an article, strike it off on that page, giving reasoning.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

For basically any other issue, see the clean up listing.

Assessment

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Index · Statistics · Log


Psychology articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 4 11 18
FL 1 1 2
GA 5 15 27 69 10 126
B 29 187 310 312 93 931
C 29 337 1,089 1,934 1 450 3,840
Start 6 164 850 3,285 2,268 6,573
Stub 6 120 1,349 1 1,851 3,327
List 7 11 47 100 1 10 176
Category 2,964 2,964
Disambig 30 30
File 38 38
Portal 100 100
Project 23 23
Template 227 227
NA 7 44 154 720 925
Other 161 161
Assessed 76 730 2,492 7,215 4,266 4,682 19,461
Unassessed 1 12 396 409
Total 76 730 2,493 7,227 4,266 5,078 19,870
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 71,223 Ω = 4.81

Like many other WikiProjects, we have an assessment project. Any Talk page with the {{WikiProject Psychology}} template on it gets assessed for quality and for its importance to our project. This section summarises statistics about psychology articles, based on the assessments.

The {{WikiProject Psychology}} template is also used to populate these:

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Psychology task forces

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The following taskforces are inactive. When the WikiProject is bigger, they can be restarted if there's enough interest.

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It turns out that the study of human behaviour is related to a lot of human activities - who knew!

Other

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Participants

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Please add yourself to the end of the first list using ~~~~ if you are interested in participating - anyone can join! Don't forget to mention your areas of interest, or any expertise you have. Consider adding the WP:PSYCH page to your watchlist so that you can see updates there.

Active

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  1. MPascale (contribs) 19:43, 21 November 2024 (UTC) PhD Student in cognitive neuroscience and psychology: Intrinsic motives, curiosity, information-seeking, exploration.[reply]

User boxes

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Badges that you can add to your user page

Psychology user templates
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{{User psychologist}}
This user is a psychologist.
{{User psychotherapist}}
This user is a psychotherapist.
{{User counselor}}
This user is a counselor.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology/Userbox}}
This user is a member of
WikiProject Psychology.

Currently inactive

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Users who have made no edits in a year or more are moved here. If you have become active again, please move your name to the active list, and welcome back!

Jim, the link to your user account doesn't work. Please fix the link or get an account so we can contact you and see your edits. Thanks for your contributions, MartinPoulter (talk) 13:06, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Jim Council 27 January 2013. I am still figuring things out. Thanks Martin.
  • Burriloom (talk) High school junior, studied psychology independently for approximately three years. Specialize in sociology, criminology, cognitive psychology, suicidology?. Average grasp on anthropology, physiology, and abnormal psychology. Large amount of references available.
  • Denverkris (talk) BA in Psych from ECU, 22 years of life experience after college (including several "nutty" ex's). Primary areas of interest are behavioral psychology and personality disorders.
  • Stephanie Henry Senior Psychology student at Clemson University
  • Morell21 I am an undergraduate student at Rice University interested in emotional labor.
  • Naomi FK I am an undergraduate student at Rice University interested in social psychology.
  • PsicoFS Clinical Psychology. Anxiety disorders
  • Snagglepuss24 (talk) I am a psychology major, with a focus on cognitive/behavioral modalities for counseling psychology.
  • QueenoftheWags (talk) 01:41, 15 April 2013 (UTC) Grad student[reply]
  • Mbama7 (talk) 04:40, 4 July 2013 (UTC) I have a B.S. in psychology. Interest in personality, abnormal psychology, criminology[reply]
  • depthdiver (talk) - neuroscience and depth psychology; intersection of psychology, philosophy and politics
  • Adam Blake (talk) - PhD student, primarily cognitive psychology (learning, memory, metacognition), but can/do help with social
  • Byrappa - Behavioral and organisational psychology
  •   M aurice  10:37, 14 February 2014 (UTC) - Technical Assistant in a High School, interested in relations between quantum physics and depth psychology[reply]
  • jeanygina (talk) - I am an undergraduate at Rice University, also studying Psychology and Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities.
  • Allisonshields (talk) - I am an undergraduate at Rice University. I am studying Psychology and I am interested in autism.
  • Dsimpson492 (talk) 27 February 2014. - Psychology professor at Carroll University. Expertise in Social Psychology, Statistics, and Internet learning tools.
  • geordiex8 (talk) 4 April 2014. - PhD Performance Science; music psychology
  • Shannon Garcia (talk) - Undergraduate at University of Washington; focused on neuropsychology and psychiatric genomics (schizotypy, bipolar, and autism spectrum)
  • Let99 (talk) 17:41, 11 May 2014 (UTC) - human memory[reply]
  • Erikbaer (talk) 03:37, 14 May 2014 (UTC) - Psychology Undergrad. Interests in existentialism, phenomenology, philosophy, ADHD, abnormal psychology, humanistic psychology, mythology, pragmatism, personality theories[reply]
  • DrSocPsych (talk) - Social psychology, learning, influence, persuasion, new religious movements.
  • Dubey (talk) 14:01, 14 July 2014 (UTC) Learning, consumer psychology, psychological research.[reply]
  • CleopatraGG(talk) B.S. Psychology; Interested in Behavioral Statistics, Psychometrics, Quantitative Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Consumer Psychology
  • LaurentS76(talk) 16:34, 28 July 2014 - PhD in psychology; Interested in Positive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, counseling psychology, psychometrics
  • kguan10 Clinical psychology PhD student, expertise in child and adolescent clinical psychology, treatment, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatments.
  • WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 19:55, 30 November 2014 (UTC) Independent researcher and popular author on gifted education, psychology of individual differences, and behavior genetics. Weekly participant during the school year at a university journal club (graduate seminar course) on behavior genetics hosted by a university department of psychology. I edit on my own behalf as one volunteer Wikipedian among many and don't speak for anyone else on Wikipedia. I keep a source list on psychology in user space for all Wikipedians to share.[reply]
  • psychmajor22 New to Wikipedia so I hope I'm doing this right. I am a passionate student of psychology. I have finished my BA Hons. with specialization in Psychology and I am looking to become a clinical psychology (MA/PhD) candidate. I understand this program is incredibly competitive - so I know it's not going to be easy. If anyone has psychology research, journal opportunities, need someone with experience in editing, or have any projects that they would like to start and want someone to work with - I am very open to talk to. I have diverse research interests. To put it in general terms: I am interested in the etiological and maintaining factors in clinical disorders, especially anxiety-streamed ones, and to further that - the malleability of self-reported attitudes/personality traits and their role in therapy, self-help, dysfunction/optimal functioning.
  • Ongmianli (talk) 02:11, 16 January 2015 (UTC) I'm a Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate focusing on accurate assessment and dissemination of evidence-based medicine. My research focuses on pediatric bipolar disorder, but my interests in accurate assessment extend beyond this disorder. Looking forward to be able to help out![reply]
  • Babajobu (talk) 14:33, 21 January 2015 (UTC) I'm a professional in the mental health field, and a Wikipedia administrator interested in getting back involved in the wiki after an extended hiatus.[reply]
  • Magenstat (talk) 07:53, 26 February 2015 (UTC) I'm an undergraduate student at Rice University interested in writing an article about mental health and the American prison system.[reply]
  • Agrizz (talk) 17:58, 28 April 2015 (UTC) Neuroscience researcher: Foci - behavior, stress, endocrinology, limbic system, and their intersection at psychiatric disorders.[reply]
  • Laura L. C. Johnson (talk) 31 May 2015 (UTC) Cognitive Behavior Therapist and Licensed Psychotherapist. Interested in contributing to Wikipedia's psychology knowledge based in the evidence-based treatment of anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders and personality disorders, particularly using cognitive behavioral therapy and schema therapy.
  • AeAnBr (talk) 18:30, 31 May 2015 (UTC) Msc in Psychology, starting PhD in Perception & Cognition at NYU this fall; projects so far covered: eye movements, face perception, (social) developmental psychology, assessment methodology (emotions, vocabulary); PhD project will focus on (neuro-)aesthetics[reply]
  • Egoldman3 (talk) 18:54, 26 June 2015 (UTC) I am a postbaccalaureate interested in clinical assessment and diagnosis and the incorporation evidence-based practices into these areas to increase consistency and improve patient outcomes. I hope to contribute to Wikipedia and help add even more reliable and up-to-date content to its psychology- and medicine-related pages.[reply]
  • User:Airhyryuk I am interested with psychology since I was young because I always experience lucid dreaming. Since then, I want to know more about this.
  • Permstrump (talk) 18:02, 13 December 2015 (UTC) Adolescents and transitional age youth with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, general child & adolescent mental health, clinical social work[reply]
  • Yash! - a Prof II MBBS student with general interest in psychology.
  • LoudLizard - Developmental, Social, Memory & Biopsychology
  • Emily.marie94 (talk) 23:15, 24 February 2016 (UTC) - Final year undergraduate student in psychology. Interested in human sexuality, developmental and abnormal psychology.[reply]
  • Commissaress - I'm interested in social and theoretical psychology and can also help with translation or anything related to autism.
  • Neezes. Cognitive psychology, especially human memory. Evolutionary psychology. Also the teaching of pre-university level psychology. Teacher and PhD candidate.
  • Seba5tien (talk/contribs) 17:23, 25 July 2016 (UTC) – primary focus/interest areas include personality, social, forensic and criminal[reply]
  • Tricksnbricks (talk) 23:41, 20 October 2016 (UTC) - PhD student in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, with focus on professional identity formation in software engineering.[reply]
  • MamaDoc. (talk) Neuroscience, Psychology, Behavior formation, eating disorders, computational neuroscience, experimental design.
  • TopCipher (talk) 13:17, 25 March 2017 (UTC) Interested in working on and expanding Forensic Psychology[reply]
  • Dr.khatmando (talk) a.k.a Jdcounselling PhD peer reviewed published author, university Professor. Contributing to psychometrics, clinician education, psychotherapy, therapeutic common factors, acculturation psychology. Will do proof reading upon request.
  • Di4gram (talk) 03:05, 28 April 2017 (UTC) Academic focus: Behavioral neuroscience, developmental psychopharmacology, refining and validating animal models of anxiety/panic disorders and PTSD. I'd like to help make related articles more accessible! BSc Psychology (Hon)[reply]
  • Dr_Ashton (talk), August 18, 2017. My main strength is in Social Psychology. Secondary area is I-O Psychology (OB and Consumer Behavior) and I often work with students at my institution editing pages on this topic.
  • Abelsalt, June 18th, 2018. I'm a doctoral candidate in cognitive neuroscience, focusing on attention, perception and awareness. Experience with behavioral, fMRI and EEG designs. Some experience with clinical work (schizophrenia).
  • eldeane, July 20th, 2018. I'm a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I edit pages related to evidence-based assessment and make EBA more accessible/understandable for clinicians. I also am interested in how the microbiome and immune system impacts mood and anxiety.
  • KnightDeathAndTheDevil (talk), October 25th, 2018. I'm a behavioral scientist focused on causal reasoning, risk, ambiguity, and incentives. My formal training is in psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational behavior.
  • Aymp458 (talk) 18:53, 8 November 2018 (UTC) I'm a cognitive scientist with a focus on memory, specifically the social aspects of memory. My background and training is in psychology and cognitive science.[reply]
  • drjchill (talk) 17:47, 23 August 2019 Primary interest is in cognitive or development articles
  • banawan primary interest is anxiety, OCD, and other mood/anxiety disorders
  • ithaker (talk) 17:45, 19 September 2019 (UTC) Adolescent mood disorders, evidence based assessment, cultural variances in mental health[reply]
  • Scamper88 (talk) 15:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC): Clinical Psychologist - predominately focused on mental health - mood & "personality disorders," AOD, psychosis. Particular interest in evidence based practice[reply]
  • Mrakia: Pathopsychology, psychiatry, mental and behavioural disorders.
  • MCJones20 (talk) 02:43, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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