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Monitor on Psychology
Volume 31, No. 1, January 2000
 
Public Interest

Bringing law and psychology together
At a conference co-sponsored by APA and the American Bar Association, lawyers and psychologists focus on improving the legal system.

Cops trust cops, even one with a PhD
Psychologist and police officer Alan Benner helps San Francisco police cope with stress on the job.

Suddenly, a big impact on criminal justice
Work by experimental psychologists may forever change the way police gather eyewitness testimony--and help prevent the wrong person from being indicted for a crime.

© Lloyd Wolf

Staying in control
Behavioral interventions put older people back in the driver's seat, in more ways than one.

How to live a century
Highlights from a recent survey on centenarians.

Advocating for older people's mental health
APA puts training on the agenda as the Older Americans Act moves toward reauthorization.





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