Cover story: Funny but true
• The formula for funny
• A laughing matter
• The chuckle connection
• How laughing leads to learning
• The anatomy of funny
In this month's issue
SCIENCE WATCH:
On the other hand, maybe I do remember…
Mixed-handed people may be better able to remember early childhood memories than strong righties, according to new research.
MAKING THE TRANSLATION:
Taking it 20 minutes at a time
A lab-based insight—that focusing on time goals can reduce pain—helps chronic pain patients reclaim their lives.
It takes a community
School psychologists are linking parents with community resources to head off mental illness in children and adolescents.
Lowered expectations
At the Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Joshua Aronson suggested ways to counteract the harmful affects of stereotypes about minorities’ intellectual abilities.
New needs in New Orleans schools
School psychologists help Katrina-evacuated children express their feelings and tell their stories.
Prevention as intervention
Through CDC-funded programs, psychologists are teaching parents strategies to avoid physical child abuse.
RxP legislation made historic progress in Hawaii
A bill authorizing prescriptive authority for psychologists was approved by the House but held back by a Senate committee.
PSYCHOTROPIC PARTICULARS:
Psychologists and psychotropic medication
This new Monitor series offers readers news and information about psychotropic medications their clients may take.
HIPAA Enforcement Rule issued
Feds seek compliance, but fines are possible for practitioners who don’t protect information.
Still a system in need of repairs
Mental health experts meet to discuss the state of national mental health care three years after the President’s New Freedom
Commission report.
Name that tune
Findings on how people identify familiar songs may lend insight into the workings of musical memory.
Emerging adults: The in-between age
A new APA book makes the case for a phase of development between adolescence and adulthood.
APA divisions, groups to sponsor convention programming
Attend symposia, conversation hours, lectures and other programming sponsored by APA’s divisions and affiliated groups.
PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
An aging America
Psychologists are assisting policy-makers in meeting the needs of older Americans.
APA presidential elections: Candidates answer first two questions
ETHICS ROUNDS:
The discipline of ethics and the prohibition against becoming sexually involved with patients
The discipline of ethics entails giving reasons, which can be a valuable exercise in regard to even the most fundamental of our ethical standards.
DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• From the CEO
• Science directions
• In the public interest
• Judicial notebook
• Association news
• Division spotlight
• A closer look
• American Psychological Foundation
• People
IN BRIEF
• Meetings frustrate task-oriented employees, study finds
• APA's Annual Convention will offer early-career programming
• Psychologists testify at Senate video-game hearing
• Burnout harms workers’ physical health through many pathways
• APA provides coping tips for MTV's alternative spring break participants
• Music lessons may boost IQ and grades
• APA Practice Organization voices opposition to health insurance act
• Prenatal alcohol exposure variably affects children’s attention
• Early intervention benefits heavier low birth-weight babies longer
• People who self-identify as proactive make better job hunters
• Irrelevant information blurs judgments, study suggests
