'Trust your first instincts': fallacious folklore?
Research shows that first instincts can stink, but we trust them anyway. Why?

When sitar meets guitar
New research suggests that people can glean emotional content from an unfamiliar culture's music.

Chemobrain: the hunt for answers
Is it more chemotherapy or the body's response to cancer that could sometimes affect the brain?

SCIENCE WATCH:
Probing the puzzling workings of 'depressive realism'
New studies hint depressed people may not factor context into judgments as much as the ondepressed--putting a new twist on the 'real' part of depressive realism.

Friends indeed
Two psychologists founded the first university-based chapter of a group that taps volunteers to befriend people with mental illnesses.

A new kind of war
With thousands of returning troops who may need help battling trauma, civilian and military psychologists alike are finding new ways to help.

Resilience: The mental muscle everyone has
APA staff took its resilience message to military children by teaching them how to 'bounce back' from stress.

An alternative IDEA
Changes to the disabilities education law mean psychologists might need to learn and support different assessment methods.

Educating students about everyday math
Psychologist Neil Lutsky has made quantitative reasoning a priority at Carleton College.

Psychology in the stadium
Psychologist and former track star Nicki Moore helps the University of Oklahoma athletics department better serve its student-athletes.

Hidden corners of the capital
Visit Washington's hidden treasures during APA's 2005 Annual Convention.

A song for then and now
Arlo Guthrie reflects on bringing 'Alice's Restaurant' out of retirement for his upcoming tour, which stops at this year's APA convention.

A rare breed
A small but growing pack of psychologists works to improve animal-human interactions as certified applied animal behaviorists.

REDIRECTING RESEARCH DOLLARS:
Fresh funding for translational research
Meet three psychologists tapping into federal dollars by making the bench-to-bedside bridge.

PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
FY 2006: A funding squeeze
The administration's budget presents challenges for psychology.

ETHICS ROUNDS:
Disclosing confidential information in consultations and for didactic purposes: Ethical Standards 4.06 and 4.07
Disclosing confidential information involves psychology's core values. Psychologists therefore consider the nature, purpose and manner of the disclosure when sharing confidential information outside the treatment relationship.

Exploring mistaken memories
A decision many questioned led Kathleen McDermott to win the $25,000 McGuigan Young Investigator Prize for her research on memory flaws.

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IN BRIEF
• 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
• IOM calls for more complementary and alternative medicine research
• 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
• Harkin receives Integrity Award
• Aging lessens tendency to take others' perspectives
• Researchers question validity of dieting measures
• Survey finds professional benefits to Psi Chi membership
• Soy's health benefits may not extend to reduced anxiety
• College students with psychological impairments need more services
• Social exclusion reduces people's willingness to self-regulate
• Free experimental psychology archive launched
• Happy employees make happy families, study finds