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  Monitor on Psychology
Volume 38, No. 2 February 2007

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Table of Contents
Print version: page 6

Cover story: The love drug
More than a feeling
Love's not sex
The eternal question: Does love last?

In this month's issue

Science Watch:
Your brain on video games
After only 30 hours playing video games, healthy adults process visual information faster. Could brain injury patients benefit too?

Science Leadership Conference:
Former presidential adviser urges researchers to stay relevant
Overcoming science stumbling blocks
Psychologists face resistance to some of their research in both the political and public arenas.
Psychological science can improve IRBs
Balancing tenure and family—do academic parents need a break?

Working together to support teachers
A University of Maryland-based program involves school psychologists, teachers and administrators in classroom interventions.

'A struggle for hope'
Armed with funding and cultural insights, psychologist-designed programs seek to reduce the alarmingly high suicide rate among American Indians.

Little girls lost
Psychologists are confronting another ugly truth of war: young girls who are coerced into the fight.

Ferreira to edit JEP: General

Ethics Rounds:
Adolescents and confidentiality: Letter from a reader
Bringing together clinical, legal and ethical perspectives on confidentiality offers both challenges and opportunities in the treatment of adolescents.

APA seeks nominations for 2008 awards
Nominate your colleagues now for next year’s Annual Convention.

Apply for 2007 scholarships and academic awards

$20,000 fellowships awarded to promising graduate students
APF Koppitz Fellowship winners will use the funding for their research on children.

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

IN BRIEF
Infants take particular note of parents' disgust
Disseration prize recognizes positive psychology research
IES-PERT fellows move on to new challenges
APA board meeting includes initiation of American Psychiatric Association board collaboration, receipt of Red Cross award
New APA center analyzes psychology employment and training trends
Pain education video appears effective in whiplash treatment
Accentuating the positive—why older people are happier
Therapy is twice as effective in clients' native language
Members approve new Membership Board
Ethics and international humanitarian response

 

 
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