April 2005 | Vol. 36 No. 4
COVER STORY:
Psychological science for the 21st century
IN BRIEF
- IOM calls for more complementary and alternative medicine research
- Older consumers factor more positives, specifics into product choices
- People's performance slows, falters when switching to a new task
- Tomes to retire from APA public interest post
- Board and Council address psychologists' involvement in military and security concerns and call for comprehensive sex-education programs, among other actions
- People in poor health are happier than others think
- Psychologist introduces mixed-age crowd to mysteries of the mind
- Task force seeks to bolster APA's diversity
- APA hosts session to inform recommendations of White House aging conference
- Department of Education renews APA's accreditation
- Students require tailored interventions for their different drinking styles
- Aging lessens tendency to take others' perspectives
- Harkin receives Integrity Award
- Researchers question validity of dieting measures
- Soy's health benefits may not extend to reduced anxiety
- Survey finds professional benefits to Psi Chi membership
- College students with psychological impairments need more services
- Free experimental psychology archive launched
- Social exclusion reduces people's willingness to self-regulate
- Happy employees make happy families, study finds
