VOLUME 29 , NUMBER 9 -September 1998

Heard on the street

'People know how AIDS is transmitted. What they don?t know is how you can?t get it.'
?Psychologist Gregory Herek, University of California at Davis, on his research showing that many people still believe AIDS can be spread through casual contact, such as putting on a sweater worn by someone with the virus (Dallas Morning News, July 2).

'Kids often demonstrate a radar-like ability to detect hypocrisy.'
?Patricia Dalton, Washington, D.C., clinical psychologist, asserting that parents? behavior, not what they say, is more likely to influence the behavior of their children. (Washington Post, July 5).

'They know marriage is risky, but there?s a stronger sense of commitment?more than we saw in their parents and grandparents. The bad news is, they don?t have a clue how to make their relationships work.'
?Howard Markman, University of Denver, on Generation X and marriage (Newsweek, July 20).

'It looks like cherry picking, like you?re creating a child through a catalog. It?s a concern to us when no one has a legacy or connection to the child prior to fertilization.'
?Psychology practitioner Hilary Hanafin, Center for Surrogate Parenting and Egg Donation, on surrogate pregnancies involving implanted embryos (using sperm and eggs from anonymous donors) instead of artificial insemination (MSNBC, July).

Heard in the Monitor

'Psychology?s future will depend on not doing exactly the same thing we did in the past, but to branch out to other needs.'
?APA President Martin E.P. Seligman, page 20.

'Whether it?s lack of equality between mental and physical health benefits, or a managed-care plan containing costs by denying necessary health care?particularly mental health care?it is still discrimination.'
?APA Executive Director for Practice Russ Newman, page 23.

'Students in psychology, unlike their colleagues in law, medicine and business, don?t have exceptionally high income potential. Assistance is especially important for us because we spend as many as seven and a half years to get a doctoral degree as well as having to do a practicum and internship. That all involves a lot of financial obligation.'
?Scott Hamilton of the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Advocacy Team, which helped secure more access to financial aid for psychology students, page 36.

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