Monitor on Psychology: April 2007 Table of contents

Monitor on Psychology
Volume 38, No. 4 April 2007

Table of Contents
Print version: page 6

Cover story: Toxic America
• America: A toxic lifestyle?
• APA task force decries culture's sexualization of girls
• Detoxing the built environment

In this month's issue

Science Watch:
A case for angry men and happy women
Observers are quicker to see anger on men’s faces and happiness on women’s. A simple case of gender stereotyping, or something more deeply rooted?

That teenage feeling
Harvard researchers may have found biological clues to quirky adolescent behavior.

Introduction to science
Educators are increasingly using intro psych to teach the fundamentals of scientific inquiry.

The union label
While some professors favor unionization, others question its value.

APA council adopts reports on military mental health, sexualization of girls
Other action includes opposing the teaching of intelligent design as scientific theory and endorsing record-keeping revisions.

An unmet need
APA task force recommends more military-sponsored research and programs to meet the mental health needs of service-members and their families.

Operation cope and heal
A federally funded center is training psychologists to help military families and service members cope with the stress of deployment.

A towering figure
Daniel Kahneman will receive APA’s lifetime contributions award at convention for his work challenging human rationality and decision-making.

Remembrance and renewal in Southeast Asia
A group of psychologists travels to Vietnam and Cambodia to learn more about each country’s response to trauma.

Giving something back
An Afghanistan-born psychologist helps an effort to establish mental health care in her native land.

Carving out a new technology path
APA’s new CIO will work to engage members through technology.

Public policy update:
A mixed bag
Here’s a look at proposed federal funding levels for programs affecting psychology.

Ethics Rounds:
Disclosures of information: Thoughts on a process
The possibility of disclosing information always invites a thoughtful process of considering values central to our profession.

A Closer Look:
The psychology behind the Scantron
Div. 5 psychologists develop and evaluate new assessment measures ranging from essays to personality inventories.

DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• Science directions
• In the public interest
• Judicial notebook
• Association news
• American Psychological Foundation
• Division spotlight
• People

IN BRIEF
• Schema-based instruction improves math skills

• Clinicians slower to diagnose ethnic-minority children

• Differences in heavy alcohol use can jeopardize marriages

• Forest Institute honored for integrated health-care program

• Low glucose levels compromise self-control

• Denmark wins 2007 Fowler Award

• Videotape may avert therapy dropout

• Social relationships matter in job satisfaction

• Pediatrician tool screens for mental health

• Women need sustained exercise programs after heart surgery

• Dizziness rehab makes some too wobbly

• U.N. report outlines strategies to end violence against children