Inside

• Psychologist and architect Roberta Feldman helps design living spaces that refelct the way people view themselves
• Psychologists are identifying antismoking advertising campaigns that deter teen smoking
• New pieces filling in addiction puzzle

Newsline

• Researchers envisions a new doctorate for a changing work world
• Hostile audiences may spark superior performances
• Minority researchers can get help studying HIV in ethnic-minority communities
• Happiness may increase with age
• More countries move to financial aid, tuition to expand higher-education
• Abnormal movements in infancy predict autism, study suggests
• American Psychologist publishes special section on domestic violence around the world.
• Ethics report recommends restrictions on research with people with impaired decision-making ability.
• New program offers a postdoctoral manster's in clinical pharmacology.

Science

• Nicotine as a performance enhancer? Research results are spotty
• Men cite nicotine, women say social intangibles are behind urge to smoke

Practice

• Practitioners may need to ask vendors for proof their computer's billing system won't fail
• Patients rights likely to be a higher priority with election of a new House speaker.
• The reorganization of the veterans Health Administration offers new opportunities for psychologists.

Public Interest

• As America celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.'s fight against racism and discrimination, psychologists worry about subtler forms of prejudice

Education

• More professional schools are trying a mentoring tactic that's long been a staple of research programs: the research team.
• New online mentoring resource for clinical science students
• A new report extols the merits of training psychologists and physicians side-by-side.
• Changes coming soon in academic tenure system
• APA effort leads to boost in congressional funding for education and training.

Association

• APA President Richard M. Suinn announces presidential initiatives
• Patrick DeLeon elected APA president for 2000
• Under Rosenbaum, performance research to blend with perception.
• Editor explores new ways to diversify the Journal of Counseling Psychology
• The new editor of APA's psychopharmacology journal plans to push for innovative content.
• APA election guidelines.
• Software helps writers conform to APA style

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