A capital convention
The opening session of APA’s 113th Annual Convention explored the association’s connections to its hometown--Washington, D.C.--and featured speeches by politicians, honors for prominent psychologists and a performance by Arlo Guthrie.

Overheard at convention
Convention speakers had some strong points to make on everything from conflicts with clients to career decision-making to happiness to obesity.

Council moves to bolster APA’s diversity, among other actions

Linear or logarithmic?
Inaccurate mental number-line representations may hinder children’s math-skills development.

Gestures give learning a hand
Hand movements prove a pathway to shifts in thinking.

Where did that idea come from?
Researchers are searching for the seat of creativity and problem-solving ability in the brain.

Why we can’t remember when...
The hippocampus’s role in memory may help explain why we cannot remember our early childhood, and why stress affects our memory later in life.

Probing the depression-rumination cycle
Why chewing on problems just makes them harder to swallow.

’I felt like a survivor, rather than a victim’
The Central Park jogger shared her story of recovering from trauma.

Cosmetic surgery’s dark side
A cultural trend challenges the feminist ideals of the original ’Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ symposium panelists said.

A community reborn
Former Penn President Judith Rodin used her psychology background to engage and transform the campus’s surrounding community.

Empirical research and family policy
The U.S. Assistant Secretary for Children and Families says empirical research is improving family services.

Culture affects reasoning, categorization
A Northwestern University professor finds that people’s culturally shaped perceptions have profound effects on cross-cultural research.

Cultural education goes both ways in U.S. prisons
Psychologists walk a line between educating prison officials about Latino culture, and explaining U.S. laws and culture to Latino inmates, said a convention panelist.

Striking a balance between correction and care
Convention speakers examined the challenges of providing mental health care in correctional facilities.

Instilling skills for treating minority elders
It takes practice to gain cultural astuteness in clinical work, said a convention speaker.

Weeding out cheaters
Psychology teachers shared strategies for preventing plagiarism and copyright violations.

Beyond reading, writing and ’rithmetic
An APA project is training Maryland teachers to bring ’the other three Rs’--reasoning, resilience and responsibility--into their classrooms.

A learning-disability dialogue
Experts debated learning-disability assessment at APA’s 12th Annual Institute for Psychology in the Schools.

Envisioning psychology’s future
APA conventioneers aired thoughts on where the field should go--and there’s still time for input.

PRESIDENTIAL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
• A four-point plan
• Enhancing diversity in APA
• The testing code changes are coming!
• Intervention, earlier
• Where psychotherapy meets neuroscience

ETHICS ROUNDS:
Ethics at APA’s Annual Convention
The many ethics programs at convention demonstrate that ethics is increasingly perceived as part of the fabric of psychologists’ work, rather than a set of external constraints on what we do.

Leaders in the field
Congratulations to the psychologists recognized at APA’s 2005 Annual Convention for their outstanding achievements and contributions to psychology.

Easing worker fears in Serbia
With State Department backing, psychologist Ivan Kos is helping citizens of Serbia, Croatia and other such countries reduce fear and work more productively.

DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• Judicial notebook
• Association news
• Division spotlight
• American Psychological Foundation
• People

IN BRIEF
• Prize-winning paper explores the ethics of marketing to children
• Video-based therapy helps mothers better negotiate stress
• Music motivates impulse buyers, not thoughtful shoppers
• Movies' critical acclaim depends on strength of storytelling
• How the Beck model can counter angst, help students learn
• 'Appropriate' negativity necessary for people to prosper
• Simple steps could remedy blood-donation shortages
• Investors sell winning stocks too early, regardless of demographics
• Reminder: Exercise helps with therapist self-care
• Exercise may protect against brain-cell loss
• People evaluate candidates' emotions based on gender, research suggests
• Guilt can do good
• Psychologists receive $2.2 million payout in CIGNA settlement; VACP case appeal concludes
• Assistant surgeon general honored for ensuring integrated health care for the underserved
• Federal funding available for psychology training
• Former Irish president calls for human rights protection
• Group suggests ways to internationalize undergrad psychology