Research Digest:

Research Digest is a psychology blog that each week breaks down a psychology study.  The blog publishes the results of the study as well as highlighting issues with the research methods.  The website also has a link to the magazine ‘The Psychologist’ which is a magazine that publishes recent studies each month, this is a great way for psychology students to access information easier and can offer ideas as to what include in assignments.  Each month the website publishes a blog by a guest writer, either a popular psychologist or writer.  The website provides readers with interesting information about everyday psychology and this weeks study is about the psychological benefits of having a Facebook hiatus.

The website has categories to help navigate the reader to what type of studies they would like to read such as: personality, cognition, social, mental health, developmental, emotion, brain Et cetera.,  You can also find jobs in the field under the section ‘Jobs In Psychology’ which links the reader to The British Psychological Society home page.

The website is avaliable as an app to download on mobile phones which is really handy and you can also subscribe to weekly emails but lets face it no one likes recieving subscription emails so it’s probably more convenient to download the app if you want to access the site regularly.

One downfall of the website is there is a lot of meaningless advertisements which takes up a lot of space on the web page.  However, fortunately the app layout is rather neat.  The studies are listed under the sections and you can simply slide across to which ever you would like to read.  Their is a brief description and images whereas on the actual website this layout is not available.

The website is a brilliant tool for psychologist and psychology students to keep up to date with information and the critical analyses of the studies published on the website is interesting and convenient.