Friday, May 29, 2009

Patient care, interactions

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Subject: American Psychologist - Volume 64, Issue 4

A new issue is available for the following APA journal:

American Psychologist
Volume 64, Issue 4

Can imagined interactions produce positive perceptions?: Reducing prejudice through simulated social contact.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/231.html
Pages 231-240
Crisp, Richard J.; Turner, Rhiannon N.

Public health significance of neuroticism.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/241.html
Pages 241-256
Lahey, Benjamin B.

Prescriptive authority and psychology: A status report.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/257.html
Pages 257-268
Fox, Ronald E.; DeLeon, Patrick H.; Newman, Russ; Sammons, Morgan T.; Dunivin, Debra L.; Baker, Deborah C.

Jacqueline C. Bouhoutsos (1924–2008).
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/269.html
Page 269
Billet-Ziskin, Mae Lee

Donald H. Kausler (1927–2008).
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/270.html
Page 270
McDonald, David G.

Charles Wenar (1922–2008).
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/271.html
Page 271
Serafica, Felicisima C.

Russell Julian Bent (1929–2008).
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/272.html
Page 272
Goldberg, Robert W.; Cox, David R.

Missing mechanism information.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/273.html
Pages 273-274
Tryon, Warren W.

Using qualitative research to develop culturally competent evidence-based practice.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/274.html
Pages 274-275
Silverstein, Louise Bordeaux; Auerbach, Carl F.

When we research “conditions–treatments,” is there a misnomer?
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/275.html
Pages 275-276
Raps, Charles S.

Bridging science and practice to improve patient care.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/276.html
Pages 276-279
Kazdin, Alan E.

(Over and) beyond high-stakes testing.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/279.html
Pages 279-280
Duckworth, Angela L.

Being creative with the predictors and criteria for success.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/280.html
Pages 280-281
Kaufman, James C.; Agars, Mark D.

The absence of underprediction does not imply the absence of measurement bias.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/281.html
Pages 281-283
Wicherts, Jelte M.; Millsap, Roger E.

Defense of tests prevents objective consideration of validity and fairness.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/283.html
Pages 283-284
Helms, Janet E.

Responses to issues raised about validity, bias, and fairness in high-stakes testing.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/64/4/285.html
Pages 285-287
Sackett, Paul R.; Borneman, Matthew J.; Connelly, Brian S.

June 10, 2009
Volume 54, Issue 23

BOOK REVIEWS

1. Correcting Fallacies About Educational and Psychological Testing
Author: Richard P. Phelps (Ed.)
Reviewer: Christopher A. Was

2. The Neuropsychology of Women
Author: Elaine Fletcher-Janzen (Ed.)
Reviewer: Alejandra Suarez

3. Persuasive Messages: The Process of Influence
Authors: William L. Benoit and Pamela J. Benoit
Reviewer: Isidro Maya Jariego

4. The Others Within Us: Constructing Jewish-Israeli Identity
Author: Dan Bar-On
Reviewer: Jasmin Habib

5. Psychological Aspects of Cyberspace: Theory, Research, Applications
Author: Azy Barak (Ed.)
Reviewer: Matthew G. Hile

6. How Infants Know Minds
Author: Vasudevi Reddy
Reviewer: Barbara Y. Whitman

7. The Science of Compassionate Love: Theory, Research, and Applications
Authors: Beverly Fehr, Susan Sprecher, and Lynn G. Underwood (Eds.)
Reviewer: Jean Henry

8. Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
Author: Neil Gross
Reviewer: Richard W. Bloom

FILM REVIEW

9. Revolutionary Road
Director: Sam Mendes
Reviewer: Karen Conner

Obesity; after war stress; older animals

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May 20, 2009
Volume 54, Issue 20

BOOK REVIEWS

1. A Lifetime of Intelligence: Follow-Up Studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947
Authors: Ian J. Deary, Lawrence J. Whalley, and John M. Starr
Reviewer: Simon Boag

2. Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research
Authors: Regan A. R. Gurung and Beth M. Schwartz
Reviewer: James H. Korn

3. The Social Behavior of Older Animals
Author: Anne Innis Dagg
Reviewer: Ronald Baenninger

4. Clinician's Guide to Treating Stress After War: Education and Coping Interventions for Veterans
Authors: Julia M. Whealin, Lorie T. DeCarvalho, and Edward M. Vega
Reviewer: Jaine Darwin

Strategies for Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to Wellness
Authors: Julia M. Whealin, Lorie T. DeCarvalho, and Edward M. Vega
Reviewer: Jaine Darwin

5. The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology
Author: Ron Sun (Ed.)
Reviewer: Howard T. Everson

6. Obesity: Causes, Mechanisms, Prevention, and Treatment
Author: Elliott M. Blass (Ed.)
Reviewer: Christy Barongan

7. Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Author: Paul Polak
Reviewer: Roseanne L. Flores

8. How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth
Author: Hervé Kempf (Leslie Thatcher, Trans.)
Reviewers: Marc Pilisuk and Gianina PellegriniSent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:44:18 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: PsycCRITIQUES - Volume 54, Issue 21 is now available online


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May 27, 2009
Volume 54, Issue 21

BOOK REVIEWS

1. Human Development From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood: Findings From a 20-Year Longitudinal Study
Authors: Wolfgang Schneider and Merry Bullock (Eds.)
Reviewer: David Elkind

2. Mindfulness- and Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies in Practice
Authors: Lizabeth Roemer and Susan M. Orsillo
Reviewer: Sheryl Leytham

3. Political Psychology: Situations, Individuals, and Cases
Author: David Patrick Houghton
Reviewer: Ruth Warner

4. Violence and Serious Theft: Development and Prediction From Childhood to Adulthood
Authors: Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, and Helene Raskin White (Eds.)
Reviewers: Jodi Viljoen and Andrew Spice

5. Social Structures and Aging Individuals: Continuing Challenges
Authors: K. Warner Schaie and Ronald P. Abeles (Eds.)
Reviewer: Michael Hogan

6. Envy: Theory and Research
Author: Richard H. Smith (Ed.)
Reviewer: Michael B. Donner

7. Schoolwide Prevention Models: Lessons Learned in Elementary Schools
Authors: Charles R. Greenwood, Thomas R. Kratochwill, and Melissa Clements (Eds.)
Reviewer: Giselle B. Esquivel

8. Preventing Suicide: The Solution Focused Approach
Author: John Henden
Reviewer: Joe Alford

9. Brain, Behavior, and Learning in Language and Reading Disorders
Authors: Maria Mody and Elaine R. Silliman (Eds.)
Reviewer: Lowell Brubaker

FILM REVIEW

10. Waltz With Bashir
Director: Ari Folman
Reviewer: Keith Oatley




FILM REVIEW

9. Valkyrie
Director: Bryan Singer
Reviewers: Joachim I. Krueger and Jan Rummel
A new issue of PsycCRITIQUES is available online at http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePQ.home
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May 20, 2009
Volume 54, Issue 20

BOOK REVIEWS

1. A Lifetime of Intelligence: Follow-Up Studies of the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947
Authors: Ian J. Deary, Lawrence J. Whalley, and John M. Starr
Reviewer: Simon Boag

2. Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Practicing Pedagogical Research
Authors: Regan A. R. Gurung and Beth M. Schwartz
Reviewer: James H. Korn

3. The Social Behavior of Older Animals
Author: Anne Innis Dagg
Reviewer: Ronald Baenninger

4. Clinician's Guide to Treating Stress After War: Education and Coping Interventions for Veterans
Authors: Julia M. Whealin, Lorie T. DeCarvalho, and Edward M. Vega
Reviewer: Jaine Darwin

Strategies for Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to Wellness
Authors: Julia M. Whealin, Lorie T. DeCarvalho, and Edward M. Vega
Reviewer: Jaine Darwin

5. The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology
Author: Ron Sun (Ed.)
Reviewer: Howard T. Everson

6. Obesity: Causes, Mechanisms, Prevention, and Treatment
Author: Elliott M. Blass (Ed.)
Reviewer: Christy Barongan

7. Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Author: Paul Polak
Reviewer: Roseanne L. Flores

8. How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth
Author: Hervé Kempf (Leslie Thatcher, Trans.)
Reviewers: Marc Pilisuk and Gianina Pellegrini

FILM REVIEW

9. Valkyrie
Director: Bryan Singer
Reviewers: Joachim I. Krueger and Jan Rummel

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

smiling, hating and unblundering

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May 13, 2009
Volume 54, Issue 19

BOOK REVIEWS

1. Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians
Authors: Edmund S. Higgins and Mark S. George
Reviewer: Victor A. Colotla

2. The Invisible Smile: Living Without Facial Expression
Author: Jonathan Cole (with Henrietta Spalding)
Reviewer: Leslie B. Rosen

3. Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective
Author: Melvin Sabshin
Reviewer: C. Robert Cloninger

4. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour
Author: Alan Lewis (Ed.)
Reviewer: Margery Lucas

5. Eleven Blunders That Cripple Psychotherapy in America: A Remedial Unblundering
Authors: Nicholas A. Cummings and William T. O'Donohue
Reviewer: Jean Carter

6. The Nature of Hate
Authors: Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Sternberg
Reviewer: Arthur G. Miller

7. Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies
Author: James E. Katz (Ed.)
Reviewer: Stuart Fischoff

VIDEO REVIEW

8. Working With Anger
with Lorne Korman
Reviewers: Robert Furey and Colleen Furey

Monday, May 11, 2009

Success and other options

BOOK REVIEWS

1. When the Opposite Sex Isn't: Sexual Orientation in Male-to-Female Transgender People
Author: Sandra L. Samons
Reviewer: Jessye Cohen

2. Psychotherapy With Cardiac Patients: Behavioral Cardiology in Practice
Author: Ellen A. Dornelas
Reviewer: Robert Allan

3. Positive Psychology: Exploring the Best in People
Author: Shane Lopez (Ed.)
Reviewer: Michael F. Steger

4. Explaining the Breakdown of Ethnic Relations: Why Neighbors Kill
Authors: Victoria M. Esses and Richard A. Vernon (Eds.)
Reviewer: Jeffrey Noel

5. New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education
Authors: Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope
Reviewer: Stephen P. Hampe

6. Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion: A Conversation Between the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman, Ph.D.
Author: Paul Ekman (Ed.)
Reviewer: Andrew Nocita

7. Outliers: The Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Reviewers: Mike Knight and Robert D. Mather

8. Afterimages: A Family Memoir
Author: Carol Ascher
Reviewer: Alejandra Suarez

FILM REVIEW

9. Australia
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Reviewer: Catherine Scott

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Memory, ADDD, and Schitzophrenia

A new issue is available for the following APA journal:

Neuropsychology
Volume 23, Issue 3

Predicting longitudinal patterns of functional deficits in children with traumatic brain injury.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/271.html
Pages 271-282
Fay, Taryn B.; Yeates, Keith Owen; Wade, Shari L.; Drotar, Dennis; Stancin, Terry; Taylor, H. Gerry

Neurocognitive outcomes and recovery after pediatric TBI: Meta-analytic review of the literature.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/283.html
Pages 283-296
Babikian, Talin; Asarnow, Robert

Memory efficiency and the strategic control of attention at encoding: Impairments of value-directed remembering in Alzheimer’s disease.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/297.html
Pages 297-306
Castel, Alan D.; Balota, David A.; McCabe, David P.

Neuropsychological impairment in patients with schizophrenia and evidence of hyponatremia and polydipsia.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/307.html
Pages 307-314
Torres, Ivan J.; Keedy, Sarah; Marlow-O’Connor, Megan; Beenken, Beth; Goldman, Morris B.

Neurocognition in first-episode schizophrenia: A meta-analytic review.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/315.html
Pages 315-336
Mesholam-Gately, Raquelle I.; Giuliano, Anthony J.; Goff, Kirsten P.; Faraone, Stephen V.; Seidman, Larry J.

Neuropsychological decline in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: A longitudinal analysis.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/337.html
Pages 337-346
Libon, David J.; Xie, Sharon X.; Wang, Xingmei; Massimo, Lauren; Moore, Peachie; Vesely, Luisa; Khan, Alea; Chatterjee, Anjan; Coslett, H. Branch; Hurtig, Howard I.; Liang, Tsao-Wei; Grossman, Murray

Prospective memory in Parkinson disease across laboratory and self-reported everyday performance.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/347.html
Pages 347-358
Foster, Erin R.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Repovš, Grega; Hershey, Tamara

Tourette’s syndrome (TS): Inhibitory performance in adults with uncomplicated TS.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/359.html
Pages 359-366
Channon, Shelley; Drury, Helena; Martinos, Marina; Robertson, Mary M.; Orth, Mike; Crawford, Sarah

Delay and reward choice in ADHD: An experimental test of the role of delay aversion.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/367.html
Pages 367-380
Marco, Rafaela; Miranda, Ana; Schlotz, Wolff; Melia, Amanda; Mulligan, Aisling; Müller, Ueli; Andreou, Penny; Butler, Louise; Christiansen, Hanna; Gabriels, Isabel; Medad, Sheera; Albrecht, Bjorn; Uebel, Henrik; Asherson, Phillip; Banaschewski, Tobias; Gill, Michael; Kuntsi, Jonna; Mulas, Fernando; Oades, Robert; Roeyers, Herbert; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Rothenberger, Aribert; Faraone, Stephen V.; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.

Attention problems, inhibitory control, and intelligence index overlapping genetic factors: A study in 9-, 12-, and 18-year-old twins.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/381.html
Pages 381-391
Polderman, Tinca J. C.; de Geus, Eco J. C.; Hoekstra, Rosa A.; Bartels, Meike; van Leeuwen, Marieke; Verhulst, Frank C.; Posthuma, Danielle; Boomsma, Dorret I.

Activity inhibition: A predictor of lateralized brain function during stress?
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/392.html
Pages 392-404
Schultheiss, Oliver C.; Riebel, Kathrin; Jones, Nicolette M.

Parallel recovery in a bilingual aphasic: A neurolinguistic and fMRI study.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/neu/23/3/405.html
Pages 405-409
Marangolo, Paolo; Rizzi, Christina; Peran, Patrice; Piras, Fabrizio; Sabatini, Umberto


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