APF News

• APF grant funds longitudinal research on adoption and same-sex couples
  Psychology professor Rachel Farr, PhD, is conducting the first longitudinal comparison of adoptive families of lesbian, gay and heterosexual parents with school-age children.

• Helping air traffic controllers
  Arathi Sethumadhavan, PhD, studied the cognitive and social issues involved in human-automation interaction in the domain of air traffic control. Her research was supported by APF Graduate Student Scholarships.

Wayne Weiten, PhD

Longtime APF donor and former president of APA Div. 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology) discusses why he supports APF.

• Boosting early career psychologists (March 2013)
• Funding solutions to social problems (March 2013)
• Paving the way for psychology's future (November 2012)
• Stopping stigma at its roots: Promoting mental health education in middle schools (November 2012)

• Big ideas for challenging times (April 2013)
• Committed to kids' well-being (February 2013)
• Grants and opportunities (May 2013)
• How does insight help gifted children? (March 2013)
• Overcoming a fear of mental illness (May 2013)