Kurt Salzinger

APA Council activites from August 2011 through February 2012 include discussion on how to make the council more representative of APA membership, a new journal co-sponsored by APAGS and APA, and changes to the APA Convention.

This book surveys quantitative and qualitative research designs to isolate and identify mechanisms that mediate behavior in a variety of psychopathologies and behavioral disorders.

We don't all have to become applied researchers, but we've been able to connect the relevant experts with the right government agencies to show how psychology can help.

My jaundiced view of people's responses to psychology has been largely colored by my personal experience on occasions when I meet nonpsychologists.

Everybody wants to tell us when we've done it wrong, rather than help us get it right.

The fable describes a mythical kingdom whose advisors are chosen for their competence, not just for agreeing with the king.

Many people are prone to accept events that happen to them personally as more believable sources of general principles than the effects established by scientific procedures.

I do find from time to time that my colleagues are not keeping up with what we think of as our literature that we send out so religiously, but then I do get literature from other places and do not always read it.

The media reports unfavorably on psychological research without understanding what results it can provide.

Because we've given psychology away, we have had wardens in prisons do behavior modification by placing prisoners in solitary confinement, substituting torture for behavior modification while calling it by a psychological name.

In this column, I will describe the work of scientists in fields other than psychopathology who can help.

I appeal to all scientist psychologists to think about how your research can help.