Save the date for psychology's regional meetings
This year's meetings will offer top speakers and networking opportunities.

SCIENCE WATCH:
Hard-hitting hormones: The stress-depression link
Stress-hormone injections result in depressive behavior affecting male rats more than females ones.

The science of savoir faire
Psychologists from varied fields work to define and understand charisma.

The politics of mortality
Some psychologists say that Americans' fears of death could have given President Bush the edge in the 2004 election.

Online lab lessons
APA is developing a Web site of interactive experiments to help instructors show students what psychology's all about.

Building a mentally healthy work force
Psychologists highlight effective interventions to help counter the rising cost of mental health problems in the workplace.

SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS
• Serious rehabilitation
   Psychologist-developed treatments are providing hope for people with serious mental illness.
• Filling a training gap
   Specialized training programs give new psychologists a leg up in treating and researching serious mental illnesses.

HIPAA: Safeguarding information
Practitioners must consider the security of their electronic patient information under latest HIPAA rule.

A niche that puts children first
Psychologists in many states are becoming parenting coordinators to help divorcing parents focus on their children's needs.

APA'S NEW PRESIDENT
Taking psychology to the people
APA's 2005 president--family psychologist Ronald F. Levant--aims to show the public that psychology's science-based resources can benefit everyone.

EARLY CAREER INSIGHTS
Things I wish I'd learned in grad school
Experts advise new psychologists on finances, office politics and professional growth.

Psychologist, heal thyself
Addiction researcher Bonnie Spring loosens nicotine's grip on herself and her clients.

INCOMING JOURNAL EDITORS:
• A journal 'coming to its senses' about the future
   JEP:HPP's incoming editor envisions a journal more focused on research that spans the brain and behavioral sciences and merges the senses.
• Mello to edit Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
• Extending psychology's rehabilitation reach
   RP editor Timothy Elliott hopes to stimulate more research on boosting quality of life for those with chronic disease or disability.

Looking back, looking forward
Four longtime APA employees reach career milestones this year.

ETHICS ROUNDS:
Diagnoses, record reviews and the new Ethics Code
Ethical Standard 9.01 guides psychologists in rendering diagnostic opinions.

DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• From the CEO
• Speaking of education
• Professional point
• Association news
• Division spotlight
• American Psychological Foundation
• A closer look
• People

IN BRIEF
• Koocher will be APA's 2006 president
• Negative thoughts, not overthinking, spur 'choking' on tough math tests
• TOPSS workshop promotes active learning for students
• Automatic racial stereotyping appears based on facial features in addition to race
• Racial stereotypes can speed visual processing
• Women report greater moral traditionalism, social compassion than men
• Phobias may hijack control of eye-gaze
• Psychologists earn new Medicare testing supervision privileges
• Imaginary friends last into the school-age years
• NIMH seeks teleheatlth research proposals
• New law bolsters treatment of mentally ill offenders
• Integrating research into teaching
• A single, direct strategy motivates students best
• Provisions from APA-spearheaded Campus Counseling Act become law
• Women's facial expressions interpreted as angrier, less happy than men's