The Virtual Psychology Museumopens in new window is a product of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay that combines original content with various psychology-related resources from across the Internet. It is a virtual space where anyone who wants to learn more about psychology can read articles, watch videos and even play games. Though it is a website, the museum is designed to feel like a physical space and to give visitors the sense that they are actually at a museum. To do this, visitors start with an interactive map that includes five primary exhibit halls and a “great hall” that includes some of the most significant contributions to the field. From that map, they can dig deeper into specific areas, learning more about topics like the Stanford Prison Experiment, The DSM-5, Learned Helplessness and others.
The Virtual Psychology Museum was created to offer a reliable source of information for anyone who wants to learn more about the fascinating field of psychology. Psychology is one of those areas where there is considerable information available to the public, but much of it hasn’t been vetted by actual experts in the field. This project provided an opportunity to curate those resources to provide reliable information to students, teachers and others.
As of now, the museum includes five exhibit halls, each dedicated to a different subfield in psychology: Social Psychology, Neuropsychology, Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Environmental Psychology and Careers in Psychology. In these different halls, visitors can take interactive quizzes, read up on famous studies and watch videos that introduce different topics or provide interesting demonstrations. Finally, visitors have direct access to over 30-hours of psychology-related podcast episodes from Psychology and Stuff, can watch episodes of Psyched for Careers and can even sign up for weekly Psychology Fact text updates.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay hopes you will visit the Virtual Psychology Museum and see for yourself what a fascinating field Psychology is.
About the authors
Ryan Martin, PhD, is the chair of the psychology programopens in new window at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a nationally known anger researcher. His work focuses on healthy and unhealthy expressions of anger, including how we express anger online. He teaches courses on mental illness, emotion and anger and violence. He also hosts the popular UW-Green Bay Psychology podcasts, Psychology and Stuffopens in new window and All the Rageopens in new window. Ryan received his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi where he first started studying anger with Eric Dahlen, PhDopens in new window, and his BA in psychology from the University of St. Thomas.
Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She received her PhD in social ecology from the University of California-Irvine. Her research interests involve benchmarks of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research, student engagement in college, assessment of undergraduate psychology learning outcomes, and perceptions of sense of community. She has taught statistics, research methods and environmental psychology for over 20 years. Georjeanna is involved in the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, most recently as the director of the SoTL Writing Workshop.
