April 2010 | Monitor on Psychology | Vol. 41 No. 4
COVER: Fostering more successful kids
- Social awareness + emotional skills = successful kids
New funding and congressional support are poised to bring the best social and emotional learning research into more classrooms nationwide.
- Another tool for special ed
Social and emotional learning programs appear to benefit children with disabilities.
SCIENCE WATCH
Psychologists’ research on the power of movement is giving us insight into why we first danced and how cultures built on that ancient impulse.
IN BRIEF
PRACTICE PROFILE
Promoting a ‘mastery climate’ motivates young athletes to do their best, says this scientist-practitioner team.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Why do women have sex? According to sex researcher Cindy Meston, the answers are more diverse and abundant than you may think.
TIME CAPSULE
The author's biting social commentaries have deep roots in psychology.
FEATURES
Today's brain-imaging research could make tomorrow's arguments even more convincing.
Most child-abuse-prevention programs have focused on mothers, but a new crop of psychologist-designed efforts now target Dad.
APA's governing body adopts a model licensing act, a change to its ethics code and a decrease in dues for certain members.
Three promising psychology graduate students won this year’s American Psychological Foundation Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Fellowships — $25,000 scholarships that promote child psychology research. Here’s what the 2010 fellows are working on and plan to do next.
ON YOUR BEHALF
What APA is doing for you
RANDOM SAMPLE
COLUMNS
From the CEO
Remarkable customer serviceIn the Public Interest
Calling more attention to worker stressJudicial Notebook
Can an all-white jury be fair to a black man?President's Column
A new era for collaborationScience Directions
In the heat of the moment
