Open Educational Resources (OER) by Subject: Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

• Principles of Abnormal Psychology (Noba)

General Psychology

• Discover Psychology 2.0: A Brief Introductory Text (Noba/Open Textbook Library)
• Introduction to Psychology (Open Textbook Library)
• Introduction to Psychology (Boundless/Lumen Learning)
• Introduction to Psychology: The Full NOBA Collection (Noba/Open Textbook Library)
• Psychology (OpenStax)
• Psychology as a Biological Science (Noba/Open Textbook Library)

Developmental Psychology

• Human Development (2021, TLG, CC BY-NC-SA)
• Lifespan Development (2019, CLCF, CC BY-NC-SA)

Community Psychology

• Introduction to Community Psychology (2021, Rebus, CC BY)
• Case Studies in Community Psychology Practice: A Global Lens (2022, Rebus, CC BY)
• Media, Society, Culture and You (2021, Rebus, CC BY)

Educational Psychology

• Educational Psychology (Saylor Foundation/Open Textbook Library)

Family Psychology

• Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens (2020, Linn-Benton Community College, CC BY)

Personality

• Personality Theory in a Cultural Context (OpenStax CNX/Open Textbook Library)
• Personality Theory (2021, CC BY, Kelland)

Positive Psychology

• The Tao of Positive Psychology (2021, CC BY, Kelland)

Psychobiology

• Psychology as a Biological Science (UMN, 2020, CC BY-NC-SA)

Research and Statistics

• R for Data Science (2017, CC BY-NC-ND) This book will teach you how to do data science with R: You’ll learn how to get your data into R, get it into the most useful structure, transform it, visualize it and model it.
• Research Methods in Psychology, 4th. ed. (2020, KPU, CC BY-NC-SA)
• Collaborative Statistics (OpenStax)
• Introductory Statistics (OpenStax)
• Learning Statistics with R: A Tutorial for Psychology Students and Other Beginners (Open Textbook Library)
• Research Methods in Psychology, 3rd American edition (Open Textbook Library)

Social Psychology

• Culture & Psychology (2020, Worthy, Lavigne, & Romero, CC BY-NC-SA)
• Principles of Social Psychology (Open Textbook Library)
• Psychology as a Social Science (Noba/Open Textbook Library)
• Together: The Science of Social Psychology (Noba/Open Textbook Library)

• Introduction to Psychology (Lumen Learning) A template course developed for the Virginia Community College System based on the OpenStax Psychology textbook as well as other OER resources.
• Noba Project (Diener Education Fund/Creative Commons) Noba is a free online platform that allows teachers to use, adapt or create high-quality, flexibly structured psychology textbooks and educational materials.

• OpenStax Psychology 2e Video Guide
• Introduction to Psychology (University of Saskatchewan)