VOLUME 30 , NUMBER 2 -February 1999

ON THE RECORD

Heard on the street

"Most people will start lowering standards for what's tolerable...People are going to lie for expediency."

--Psychologist and management consultant Steven Berglas, Harvard Medical School, on the cultural impact of lies told by leaders such as President Clinton (New York Times, Dec. 20).

"He says something designed to lead us to believe nothing at all inappropriate happened, which to me is a lie."

--Psychologist Bella DePaulo, University of Virginia, on President Clinton's refusal to admit he lied to a grand jury about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky (MSNBC, Dec. 15).

"Conceited people get nasty when you burst their bubble of self-love."

--Research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister, Case Western Reserve University, on his finding that children with inflated self-esteem often become hostile and aggressive when somebody rejects or insults them. ("20/20," Dec. 2).

"In the time they hope viewers are absorbing their commercial messages, viewers may actually be trying to calm the anger brought on by what they just watched."

--Psychologist Brad Bushman, Iowa State University, on his study showing that people tend to tune out commercial messages during violent television programs (Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1).

Heard on the Monitor

"There's growing awareness that if your colleague is hurt, you're hurt too. As long as it's bad for somebody else, it's bad for us all, because we are one profession."

APA CEO Raymond D. Fowler on the impact that the changing health-care market is having on psychology, page 11.

What's needed now "is for us in psychology to recognize the piece each of us has to deal with. It will be an integrating of those pieces that will bring us together on this. The system is still changing and evolving. Our goal is to assure that 10 years from now the values upon which the health-care system are based are consistent with the core values of psychology to provide quality care."

APA's Russ Newman on psychology's goals as the health-care market continues to change, page 12.

"If we can help one young person in trouble, this campaign will be a success."

MTV President Judith McGrath about the MTV/APA initiative to reach out to teens about youth violence, page 24.

"In one breath, they'll say their text books are 20 years old, but that the health care is great. Their rationalization is, 'We do our best with what we've got and therefore it's excellent.'"

Psychologist Frank Dattilio on his impression of psychology in Cuba, page 33.

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