- Abstinence message is less effective than teaching about safer sex
- Police investigators can bias witnesses' memory of criminals
- Psychologists can control costs without HMO oversight, study indicates
- Behavioral health benefits cut by half in last decade, analysis shows
- Study finds evidence that affirmative action may undermine worker confidence
- Research reveals potential cause of youthful impulsiveness
- Exercise improves psychological well-being in patients with lung disease
- High school athletes may be more drawn to alcohol and drugs
- Ethnopolitical Warfare
- Emotions and negative group identity are at the root of ethnic violence
- Experts connect psychological theories of ethnic conflict with the cruel realities of war
- Changing diapers in war pushed Mari Fitzduff into psychology
- Marketing Your Research
- Agencies urge scientists to translate research into practice
- Psychologist use research on motivation to design educational computer games
- Treatment for stroke patients moves from bench to bedside
- Protecting participants is the goal of recent ethics initiatives
- NIH's overhaul of peer-review is nearing completion
- NIH now works to revamp its grant proposal structure
- APA sponsors its fourth Summer Science Institute
- Undercapitalizaton
- The undercapitalization of some managed-care plans is behind their financial woes
- Outcries over managed care spur action in Congress
- States continue their push for health-care reform
- Study probes how patients are affected by telehealth
In this issue
EXPERTS SCRAMBLING ON SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
The recent youth homicides in rural schools represent a violence puzzling to psychologists.
HISTORIC CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON CREATING A NEW DISCIPLINE
Meeting in one of the world’s fiercest trouble spots,
experts laid the groundwork for hope in ethnic warfare.
MAKE THE MOVE
A new plan aims to end the hassles and frustrations of getting licensed in another jurisdiction
FOSTERING A NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS
A couple's wisdom and generosity is opening doors for Asian-Pacific American mental health professionals
TECHNOLOGY:VICE OR VIRTUE?
A new course urges psychology students to step back and ponder technology's effects
- Association news
- Calendar
- Division spotlight
- In the public interest
- Judicial notebook
- Letters
- On the record
- People
- President's column
- Professional point
- Running Commentary
- Science directions
- Speaking of education
- Time capsule
- Web site of the month
- Convention speaker Howard Gardner to discuss the crossroads of creativity and responsibility
- APA's Board of Directors approves tight budget, new association rules
- APF honors Gantz for her generous gift to support research
- 1998 APA Division Officers and Council of Representatives election results
- Your Golden Gate: APA publications
- Visit New Zealand
- Welcome to the University of Otago, home of the world's southern-most psychology department
- The latest high-tech tool: essay-grading computers
- Integrating aging issues into the introductory psychology class
- Psychology's voice in sexual harassment law
- She faced skepticism and sarcasm-and then came Anita Hill