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Finding a topic upon which you wish to base your research can be challenging. Finding background information or an overview of the topic is useful. Use the topics listed in the boxes on this page to get you started thinking about a topic.
Here is a list from which you might find a topic in which you are interested in for your research.
| 7-Step programs | Eating disorders | Post-traumatic stress syndrome |
| Addiction | Emotional intelligence | Postnatal/postpartum depression |
| Allure of scent | Extrasensory perception | Primate language-learning |
| Alzheimer's | Extreme makeovers | Private vs. public self |
| Androgyny | Family therapy | Psychology of music |
| Anger | Fear of flying | Retail therapy/shopaholism |
| Asperger's Syndrome | Gambling | Resilience |
| Attention Deficit Disorder | Grief | Revenge |
| Autism | Group therapy | Rumours |
| Beauty Pageants | Guilt | Rx for children with ADHD |
| Behaviourism | Hirsute-attractive? | Sadism |
| Bipolar Disorder | Histrionic personality disorder | Schizophrenia |
| Birth order | How music affects learning | Self-esteem |
| Body modification | humour | Senses & the Psyche |
| Body piercing | Hypochondriasis | Serial killers |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | Indigo children | Sexual assault victims |
| Bullies | Internet addiction | Sibling rivalry |
| Celebrity | Jealousy | Sleeping disorders |
| Child prodigies | Kleptomania | Smoking cessation |
| Communication differences - male/female | Laughter | Social anxiety disorder |
| Competition | Love in cyberspace | Somnambulism |
| Complaining behaviour | Mass suicides | Spousal abuse |
| Compulsive behaviours | Megalomania | Stammering |
| Concept of Self | Memory | Stereotyping |
| Corporeal punishment | Mind-body connection | Subliminal advertising |
| Criminal mind | Mindfulness | Suicide |
| Cross-dressing | Multiple personalities | Surrogate mothers |
| Cults | Obsessive-compulsive disorder | Teen suicide |
| Cyberbullying | Occultism | Terrorism -- effects of |
| Deja vu | Optimism/pessimism | Transsexuals |
| Depression | Panic attacks | Transvestites |
| Divination | Pedophilia | Twins |
| Dreams | Peer pressure | Visual perception |
| Dyslexia | Pets & the elderly | War -- effects on individuals |
| Phobias |
Topics listed offer you the option to be redirected to the American Psychological Association's Psychology Topic page where you will find up-to-date information including definitions and short online articles.