Open Educational Resources for Psychology: OER Psychology Textbooks

This textbook by Jorden A. Cummings and Lee Sanders is an introductory textbook. "created from a combination of original content and materials accumulated and tailored from a number of open text publications" ( University of Saskatchewan). This material is intended for first year psychology courses.

This textbook offers a thorough descriptions of core concepts of Psychology. The second edition was published in 2019.

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This link shares open educational resources from the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

This site was last updated in 2024.

"Developmental Psychology, also known as Human Development or Lifespan Development, is the scientific study of ways in which people change, as well as stay the same, from conception to death." ( Lally, 2023)

copywrite: 2022
last update: 2023

This book presents an overview of the contemporary approaches in the departments of child education and psychology, with the hope of them growing up as happy, peaceful, balanced, thoughtful confident and successful individuals.

This textbook introduces students to the underlying principles of what it is like to think like a psychology researcher. There are lecture slides are also available.

Learning Statistics with R covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students, focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective, the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.

Authored by Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani and Dr. Hammond Tarry. This book was adapted by the above authors from Charles Stagnor’s textbook Principles of Social Psychology.

"The 8 units include 27 modules covering key social psych topics such as research methods, group processes, social influence, and relationships." - Authored by R. Biswas-Diener, Portland State University, and E. Diener (Eds), for the Noba Textbook Series. 2024.

This textbook will show you how to analyze, investigate, and address rising problems of economic inequality, violence, substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, and racism. It will provide you with perspectives and tools to promote a fair and reasonable distribution of resources and opportunities.