November 2010 | Monitor on Psychology | Vol. 41 No. 10

COVER: Veterans who changed psychology
- The veterans who transformed psychology
A look at the powerful role the GI Bill and the then-Veterans Administration had in shaping today’s psychology field.

SCIENCE WATCH
The burgeoning field of cultural neuroscience is finding that culture influences brain development, and perhaps vice versa.

IN BRIEF

QUESTIONNAIRE
Microsoft psychologist Kevin Larson teams with typographers and computer engineers to improve our ability to read onscreen.

TIME CAPSULE
Is it time to bring raccoons back to the psychology laboratory?

FEATURES
Psychologists are helping astronomers create pictures that inform and awe.
Psychologists’ interventions could help save an endangered species — and transform wildlife management worldwide.
Psychologists’ research is pointing to ways Americans can find balance between online and offline worlds.
Lifestyle interventions show promise, but the research remains inconclusive.
A new generation of philosophers is using behavioral science tools to test long-standing questions about human morality.
Demand for life coaches is growing, but the area remains poorly regulated and researched — therein creating an opportunity for psychologists.
Psychologists in the burgeoning field of dissemination and implementation science are testing creative ways to improve health care and lower costs.
This intervention framework seeks to overcome the barriers to putting effective prevention and treatment programs in place.
A special journal issue examines the complexities that ethnicity and culture bring to clinical supervision.
APA’s offerings grow more varied — and more interactive.


ON YOUR BEHALF
What APA is doing for you

RANDOM SAMPLE
COLUMNS
From the CEO
Data at your fingertipsJudicial Notebook
Violent video games: Are kids playing their hearts out?Perspective on Practice
Where has all the psychotherapy gone?President's Column
More accurate diagnoses ahead
