July/August 2000 | Monitor on Psychology | Vol. 31 No. 7

July/August 2000 Monitor cover

COVER:
Research for the real world

SCIENCE WATCH

The key to learning latitudes lies in correcting misconceptions

Cognitive inertia and mental biases may thwart our abilities to correctly map even the world's best-known cities.

TIME CAPSULE

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FEATURES

Course exposes hidden racial prejudices

Students confront their hidden biases to better prepare for psychology practice.

Education convention programming 2000

Education programs are geared for all levels.

APF hosts distinguished speakers at convention

Wide variety of programming is offered.

APF recognizes psychologists for life achievement

Foundation bestows medals on psychologists at convention

'Valuing diversity'

U.S. Surgeon General to be key speaker at Aug. 8 event

Psychology's largest prize goes to four extraordinary scientists

The Templeton Positive Psychology Prize will support research on positive emotions, optimism and intellectual precocity.

A new stress paradigm for women

Rather than fighting or fleeing, women may respond to stress by tending to themselves and their young and befriending others.

Bringing minorities into the research fold

The main mission of the APA/National Institute of General Medical Sciences program is to expose minority students to the rigors of research early in their academic careers. An APA program attracts minority students to biomedical research through teamwork among institutions.

APA is key to anti-stigma campaign

A White House initiative aimed at teens seeks to prevent discrimination against people with mental illnesses.

The mental/dental connection

More psychologists and dentists are working together to help patients--and their own practices.

Long-term care: dire need for services, inadequate pay for psychologists

Psychologists band together to advocate for comprehensive mental health services for people in long-term care settings.

A court that sentences psychological care rather than jail time

A mental health court in Broward County, Fla., provides a much-needed service for the community and a learning opportunity for psychology doctoral students.

How do parents matter? Let us count the ways

A forthcoming book details evidence of how, when and in what context parents influence child development--and where they might not.

If I'd only known...

Wish you'd known the secrets of faculty life before you started your first job in academe? Faculty who know the ropes pass on their collective wisdom.

Easing new faculty into departmental life

Psychology departments are going to greater lengths to help new hires fit in.

E-dissertations

Two up-and-coming professionals are breaking new ground by generating Web sites rather than papers.

APA task force considers changes to proposed ethics code

After gathering member feedback, the task force continues to refine its plans to alter the code, and seeks more member input during APA's Annual Convention.

Focus on Science at convention

The human genome project, a talk by Steve Hyman and 'a beginner's manual' for academics headline this year's programming for scientists.

CANDIDATES FOR APA PRESIDENT

APA BOOK NOTES

Statistics you can get excited about

A new book makes multivariate statistics more accessible to those with little or no formal training in statistics.

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