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Health Psychology (PS 295)

Resources for study and research concerning the relationship between attitudes and personality factors and health, including stress management and behavioral change.

APA Data Set Links

American Psychological Association Linked Data Sets

HSRIC - NIH Health Services Research Information Center: data, tools, and statistics

Journal of Open Psychology Data

Open Access Directory: Data Repositories - see Social Sciences listings

PLOS ONE Recommended Repositories - see Social Sciences listings

Open Data Handbook - guide, case studies, and resource library

Qualitative Data Repository (Syracuse University) - access to digital data used in qualitative and multi-method social inquiry.

ICPSR (U. Mich) - Consortium for Political and Social Research 

Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research Center (UMass Medical School)

Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (Cornell U)

Pew Research Center

Working with Open Data

SPARC Open Data - policies, handbooks, and guides from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

Open Access Spectrum Guide (PLOS ONE)

Published Data

Major polling organizations and research centers publish tallies of their results which may be useful in developing your thesis or as a statistical reference. Government and NGOs also publish population statistics, both online and in print.

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