Cover story: Why we give
• Helping others, helping ourselves
Psychologists are studying why people volunteer, and how organizations can hold onto volunteers in the long term.
• Donating their time
Among the 100 million Americans who volunteer each year are many psychologists and psychology students. Read about three of them.
• Helping kids care
Children may possess more inborn altruism than previously thought, and much can be done to nurture it.
• Altruism: an accident of nature?
Bees, bats, ravens and humans often help one another. But usually there’s a hidden agenda.
In this month's issue
SCIENCE WATCH:
Seeing the forest and the trees
New research sheds light on how we begin to make sense of the world’s confused jumble
of colors and shapes.
MAKING THE TRANSLATION:
Nix the tics
New research debunks Tourette’s syndrome myths and lays the groundwork for a behavioral
intervention.
EARLY-CAREER INSIGHTS:
Climb the funding ladder
Taking advantage of small grant opportunities can help you work your way up to larger grants, say early-career experts.
Not going quietly
I. King Jordan, a psychologist and Gallaudet’s first deaf president, fights one
of his toughest battles as he steps down.
Breaking town/gown barriers
In a top educational post, a psychologist has pushed to make the nation’s universities
more accessible to and integrated with the communities they serve.
Education’s ‘ultimate diplomat’
APA’s Paul Nelson retires this month after 24 years of shepherding psychology education
and training.
Orion’s star
Minnesota psychologist Rebecca Thomley grew her mother’s basement business into a large
human services company serving people with disabilities.
INCOMING JOURNAL EDITORS
• Blanchard-Fields to lead Psychology and Aging
• Rogers to lead Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
• Rao to lead Neuropsychology
PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
Giving credit where credit is due
APA’s Public Policy Office acknowledges psychologists who advocated on behalf of public
interest, education and science in 2006.
ETHICS ROUNDS:
Beyond mere compliance: Three metaphors to teach the APA Ethics Code
Metaphors can help move us beyond a superficial understanding of the Ethics Code to a deeper, more interesting, and ultimately more satisfying way of conceptualizing the code and its role in our professional lives.
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DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• From the CEO
• Science directions
• In the public interest
• Judicial notebook
• Association news
• Division spotlight
• A closer look
• American Psychological Foundation
• People
IN BRIEF
• Men who cheat show elevated testosterone levels
• APA public interest committees advocate on Capitol Hill
• Nurturing the next generation of scientists
• Presidential initiative establishes resources for teaching diversity
• BPD tied to enhanced emotion recognition
• Mental health imparity
• World mental health day emphasizes the link between suicide and mental illness
