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Making New Years' resolutions stick
featured December 31, 2007

How to manage a difficult boss
featured December 31, 2007

False assumptions: Why we fail to predict what will make us happy
featured December 27, 2007

Alcohol disorders and their treatment
featured December 27, 2007

Why we volunteer
featured December 24, 2007

Test your stress smarts
featured December 24, 2007

Preparing for retirement
featured December 20, 2007

Women's rights in the Middle East
featured December 20, 2007

Is happiness set in stone?
featured December 17, 2007

Parents: Managing holiday stress
featured December 17, 2007

Prenatal alcohol exposure increases teen drinking risks
featured December 14, 2007

Report warns of corporate influence on science
featured December 14, 2007

Integrating eastern traditions in psychotherapy
featured December 11, 2007

Coping with holiday stress
featured December 10, 2007

APA condemns torture
featured December 10, 2007

Psychology's humanitarian heroes
featured December 10, 2007

Humanitarian hero: Helping families around the world
featured December 7, 2007

Managing distress after a mall shooting
featured December 7, 2007

Mall shooting: How to manage distress
featured December 6, 2007

Workplace stress and pain
featured December 5, 2007

Psychological treatment for breast cancer
featured December 5, 2007

Why mental illness and addiction often co-occur
featured December 3, 2007

Questions and answers about homosexuality
featured December 3, 2007

Does Internet use make kids smarter?
featured November 30, 2007

Anxiety: How therapy can help
featured November 28, 2007

Call for comments: Pharmacotherapy guidelines
featured November 28, 2007

Communication tips for parents
featured November 25, 2007

Grit: An essential ingredient for success
featured November 25, 2007

Tips for dealing with holiday stress
featured November 21, 2007

Telecommuting benefits both employees and employers
featured November 20, 2007

How children develop a sense of humor
featured November 19, 2007

Moonbeam award-winner: Full Mouse, Empty Mouse
featured November 19, 2007

Online pornography's effect on children
featured November 16, 2007

Using the Internet to improve patient care
featured November 16, 2007

Bad behavior doesn't doom students
New York Times, November 13
featured November 14, 2007

Helping Virginia Tech heal
featured November 14, 2007

Men and depression
featured November 12, 2007

Helping divorced couples parent better
featured November 12, 2007

Daily weigh-ins help maintain weight loss
featured November 9, 2007

Gesturing helps kids do math
featured November 7, 2007

Counteracting the impact of violent video games
featured November 2, 2007

Understanding hate crimes
featured November 2, 2007

Helping pedestrians stay safe at night
featured October 31, 2007

Handling the stress of being supermom
featured October 31, 2007

Psychologists partnering with environmentalists
featured October 29, 2007

Can animals do math?
featured October 29, 2007

Recovering from natural disasters
featured October 26, 2007

Technological generation gap widens
featured October 26, 2007

American stress on the rise: Effects on health, relationships and work
featured October 24, 2007

California wildfires: Managing stress
featured October 24, 2007

Helping soldiers cope with stress
featured October 19, 2007

Preparing for retirement
featured October 19, 2007

Massage therapy for premature babies
featured October 17, 2007

How discrimination affects family life
featured October 15, 2007

Motivating people to conserve
featured October 15, 2007

APA responds to hate crime at Columbia University
featured October 12, 2007

What makes kids care?
featured October 12, 2007

Darfur: Stopping the genocide
featured October 10, 2007

Help for managing diabetes
featured October 10, 2007

Briefing: Children's mental health
featured October 8, 2007

Psychologists and the U.N.
featured October 5, 2007

Signs of anxiety disorder
featured October 5, 2007

Lead exposure's effect on kids
featured October 3, 2007

Stress may set off tumor development
featured October 3, 2007

What causes evil?
featured October 1, 2007

What men think about marriage
featured October 1, 2007

The cost of multitasking
featured September 28, 2007

How do pigeons find their way?
featured September 28, 2007

What convinces people to save energy?
featured September 26, 2007

Mental health treatment trend: Consumer-driven centers
featured September 26, 2007

Focus on: Kids & the media
featured September 26, 2007

Why mental health insurance matters
featured September 23, 2007

Psychologist wins National Medal of Science
featured September 23, 2007

Senate passes mental health parity bill
featured September 19, 2007

Statement from APA
featured September 19, 2007

How does stress affect us?
featured September 19, 2007

Mental health treatment trend: Consumer-driven centers
featured September 19, 2007

What primates tell us about parenting
featured September 17, 2007

Cell phones and unsafe driving
featured September 17, 2007

What military psychologists do
featured September 14, 2007

Caring for aging family members
featured September 14, 2007

Focus on: How to choose a psychologist
featured September 14, 2007

Practicing together: Psychologists and physicians
featured September 12, 2007

What makes kids care?
featured September 12, 2007

Can ads affect boys' self-esteem?
featured September 10, 2007

Psychologist supports her local soldiers
featured September 10, 2007

Chess protects aging minds
featured September 7, 2007

TV violence harms children
featured September 7, 2007

Helping inmates be better dads
featured September 5, 2007

How to control your anger
featured September 5, 2007

Coping with a coworker's death
featured September 5, 2007

A psychologist in Iraq
featured September 3, 2007

Why we point when we count
featured September 3, 2007

Focus on: Mind/body health
featured September 3, 2007

Making stepfamilies work
featured August 31, 2007

How hypnosis can relieve pain
featured August 31, 2007

Focus on: Trauma
featured August 31, 2007

How to: Tackle emotions behind overeating
featured August 28, 2007

Obesity rates climb
HealthDay News, Aug. 27
featured August 28, 2007

Focus on: Back to school
featured August 28, 2007

Labor Day weekend: Stamp out work stress
featured August 26, 2007

Convention highlights
featured August 26, 2007

Press release: APA reaffirms position on torture
featured August 26, 2007

Finding help through psychotherapy
featured August 26, 2007

Stay-at-home dads just as happy
USA Today, August 21
featured August 23, 2007

APA reaffirms position against torture
featured August 23, 2007

Iraq war takes toll on Guard members
USA Today, August 21
featured August 22, 2007

APA reaffirms position against torture
featured August 20, 2007

Cancer: Getting beyond "Why me"
featured August 17, 2007

Back-to-school stress: Coping tips
featured August 15, 2007

Warning signs: Youth violence
featured August 15, 2007

Batter's up! Aggression and baseball
featured August 13, 2007

Focus on: Gender differences
featured August 13, 2007

Schoolyard blues: The impact of exclusion and gossip
featured August 10, 2007

Focus on: Bullying
featured August 10, 2007

Helping kids adjust to middle school
featured August 9, 2007

Focus on: Choosing a therapist
featured August 9, 2007

Memory boosters: Physical and mental exercise
featured August 6, 2007

Focus on: Resilience
featured August 6, 2007

Plenary session: Designing college campuses
featured August 3, 2007

Good moods make some more superstitious
featured August 3, 2007

Focus on: Anxiety
featured August 3, 2007

New research on Latino health
featured August 1, 2007

Is inequality making us sick?
featured August 1, 2007

Focus on: ADHD
featured August 1, 2007

Researchers contest negative views of grief counseling
featured July 30, 2007

Satisfy your inner scientist
featured July 30, 2007

Coping with serious illness
featured July 30, 2007

Ethics and interrogation 'miniconvention'
featured July 27, 2007

Predicting aggression in pro baseball
featured July 27, 2007

Focus on: Stress at work
featured July 27, 2007

Roundtable: College student mental health
featured July 25, 2007

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman
featured July 25, 2007

Focus on: Depression
featured July 25, 2007

APA's action against violence
featured July 23, 2007

Public interest programming
featured July 23, 2007

Focus on: Marriage & divorce
featured July 23, 2007

Environment affects animal learning
featured July 20, 2007

President's program
featured July 20, 2007

Focus on: Aging
featured July 20, 2007

Plenary session: The emotional power of place
featured July 18, 2007

Teen girls: The downside of commiserating
featured July 18, 2007

Focus on: High stakes testing
featured July 18, 2007

Teen girls: The downside of shared rumination
featured July 16, 2007

Focus on: Intelligence
featured July 16, 2007

Focus on: Sexual Orientation
featured July 13, 2007

Leadership: What makes women successful
featured July 13, 2007

Big benefits for healthy workplaces
Washington Post, July 9
featured July 11, 2007

Focus on: Parenting
featured July 11, 2007

Rebuilding New Orleans: How psychologists are helping
featured July 9, 2007

Focus on: Natural disasters
featured July 9, 2007

Predicting schizophrenia's onset
featured July 6, 2007

Focus on: Shyness
featured July 6, 2007

New study: Repeat testing more accurate
featured July 3, 2007

Focus on: Emotional health
featured July 3, 2007

Psychology's new women leaders
featured July 1, 2007

Focus on: Death & dying
featured July 1, 2007

Divorce: Putting kids first
featured June 29, 2007

Focus on: Panic disorder
featured June 29, 2007

Psychology in the crime lab
featured June 27, 2007

Focus on: Sleep
featured June 27, 2007

Therapy improves diabetes management
featured June 24, 2007

Building bridges: International programming
featured June 24, 2007

Focus on: Ethics, interrogations and national security
featured June 24, 2007

Why we tell 'big fish' stories
featured June 20, 2007

Soldiers struggle to get psychological care
Washington Post, June 17
featured June 18, 2007

How dads can manage stress
featured June 15, 2007

Why 'dad time' is good for kids
Wall Street Journal, June 14
featured June 14, 2007

The problem with DNA
featured June 12, 2007

Methods to identify at-risk readers
featured June 10, 2007

Ethics, interrogations and national security
featured June 10, 2007

Search the online convention program
featured June 6, 2007

Police training improves shoot-no shoot decisions
featured June 6, 2007

Harboring hostility may be bad for your lungs
featured June 3, 2007

Summer camp: Avoiding homesickness
featured June 3, 2007

Help for soldiers with traumatic brain injury
featured May 31, 2007

Summer camp: Avoiding homesickness
featured May 31, 2007

Cultural background shapes when children lie
featured May 28, 2007

Psychology topic: Kids & the media
featured May 25, 2007

Bill would boost mental health after disasters
clinton.senate.gov, May 23
featured May 25, 2007

Repeated exposure to one viewpoint can mislead
featured May 23, 2007

Careers in psychology
featured May 23, 2007

Preventing Elder Abuse
featured May 21, 2007

More about aging
featured May 21, 2007

People 'on hold' prefer information to apologies
featured May 18, 2007

Six myths about stress
featured May 18, 2007

Seven steps to stomp out debt
featured May 14, 2007

Mother’s Day: Stress management tips for moms
featured May 10, 2007

Meditation training changes the brain
New York Times, May 8 (free subscription required)
featured May 8, 2007

Tips for recovering from natural disasters
featured May 8, 2007

Psychology topic: Natural disasters
featured May 8, 2007

Fussy babies affect marriages
featured May 3, 2007

Volunteer in the community
featured May 3, 2007

A Path to Mental Health
U.S. News & World Report, May 7
featured May 3, 2007

Exploring social injustice
featured May 1, 2007

Making sense of semantic memory
featured May 1, 2007

Meeting the military's mental health needs
featured April 29, 2007

Making college campuses safer
featured April 29, 2007

An evening of laughter with Bob Newhart
featured April 26, 2007

Clinicians slower to diagnose ethnic-minority children
featured April 26, 2007

Time to turn off the television
Newsday, April 22, 2007
featured April 23, 2007


How exposure to violent TV damages children
featured April 23, 2007


More on kids & the media
featured April 23, 2007

New psychology faculty salary surveys posted by APA’s Center for Psychology Workforce Analysis and Research
featured April 22, 2007

Coping tips for parents of college students
featured April 16, 2007

Talking to your kids about the recent school shootings
featured April 16, 2007

Managing stress after traumatic events
featured April 16, 2007

Tax-day strategies to manage money stress
featured April 15, 2007

Continuing education enrollment now open
featured April 15, 2007

Behavior experts analyze Imus impact
USA Today, April 12, 2007
featured April 13, 2007

Promoting mental health care in Afghanistan
featured April 9, 2007

How neighborhoods influence health
featured April 5, 2007


April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
featured April 3, 2007

Get involved: ACT Against Violence
featured April 3, 2007

America: A toxic lifestyle?
featured April 1, 2007

Psychological science's new research tool: fMRI
featured April 1, 2007

Can monkeys count?
featured March 29, 2007

Sports psychologists help athletes leap higher
featured March 28, 2007

Research tries to measure how we find life's meaning
Chicago Tribune (free registration required), March 26, 2007
featured March 25, 2007

Mental maps: Psychologists and geographers team up
featured March 25, 2007

A new diagnosis for childhood trauma?
featured March 22, 2007

APA and psychiatric association urge Congress to end insurance discrimination
featured March 20, 2007

Virtual racing games linked to risky behavior
featured March 18, 2007

Effective therapy for borderline personality disorder
featured March 16, 2007

APA's Annual Convention:
Online Registration| Hotel Reservations | Convention details
featured March 15, 2007

A new diagnosis for childhood trauma?
featured March 15, 2007

Convention registration begins March 15
featured March 11, 2007

Love lab: What do men and women prize most?
featured March 11, 2007

Workplaces that promote well-being
featured March 8, 2007

APA Convention registration begins March 15
featured March 8, 2007

How we make mental maps
featured March 6, 2007

Military's mental health care system strained
featured March 6, 2007

Robots help unravel infant learning
featured March 4, 2007

APA opposes teaching intelligent design as science
featured March 1, 2007

Drug may reduce prenatal alcohol exposure's effects
featured March 1, 2007

Could video games help brain injury patients?
featured February 27, 2007

Military's mental health care system strained
featured February 27, 2007

Psychologists aid girls in war-torn nations
featured February 27, 2007

Military families and mental health care
featured February 25, 2007

Long Iraq tours can make home a trying front (New York Times, February 23, 2007)
featured February 25, 2007

Men & depression: Facing darkness (Newsweek, February 26, 2007)
featured February 22, 2007

Sexualization of girls
featured February 18, 2007

Prisons and mental illness: APA's statement regarding 60 Minutes report
featured February 18, 2007

Working together to support teachers
featured February 15, 2007

The eternal question: Does love last?
featured February 13, 2007

Experiences in infancy shape adult approach to romance
Read the APA press release
featured February 13, 2007

Extra cortisol protects women's mood under stress
featured February 11, 2007

Battling suicide in the American Indian community
featured February 8, 2007

Love doesn't have to hurt teens (PDF)
featured February 6, 2007

What makes a good leader?
featured February 4, 2007

Romantic love's powerful hold on the brain
featured February 1, 2007

Psychological issues in Kenya
featured January 30, 2007

More from APA's Office of International Affairs
featured January 30, 2007

Severe maternal stress can harm fetal brain (BBC, January 26, 2007)
featured January 28, 2007

Cheerleader-partners boost relationship satisfaction
featured January 25, 2007

Don't be mad: Hostility and coronary risk
featured January 23, 2007

Students: Boost your job search with a Web site
featured January 21, 2007

Bilingualism delays onset of dementia (Reuters, January 12, 2007)
featured January 19, 2007

Imaginative play increases children's academic success
featured January 16, 2007

Is expert testimony on memory valid?
featured January 14, 2007

Surprising findings on procrastination research
featured January 11, 2007

APA's response to Washington Monthly article regarding interrogations
featured January 10, 2007

More on APA's position on interrogations
featured January 10, 2007

Why people make poor investment decisions
featured January 9, 2007

Alzheimer's gene often doesn't kick in until old age
featured January 9, 2007

Alzheimer's gene does not cause cognitive decline before old age
featured January 7, 2007

The psychological needs of military personnel and families
featured January 7, 2007

The new academic job market
featured January 4, 2007

APA Science: Early researcher award winners announced
featured January 4, 2007

Psychologists take on heart disease
featured January 2, 2007

Uric acid blood check a marker for dementia
featured January 2, 2007


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