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Monitor on Psychology
Volume 31, No. 2, February 2000
 
Science Watch

Wanted: Behavioral researchers with a penchant for genetics
Powerful genetic techniques are helping researchers tease apart key aspects of behavior, but a shortage of behavioral experts may set the field back.

Fitting 'PSY' into DNA
Francis Collins invites psychologists to help his genome institute 'sift through' the behavioral, social and legal consequences of genetic testing.

Norman Anderson steps down
After five years, he's left behavioral and social sciences at the National Institutes of Health in a much stronger position.

Science watch
Our inability to remember particulars about spinning objects may help explain why the physics of rotation elude so many.

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