Psychological Science in the Public Interest Archive

The following issues of Psychological Science in the Public Interest are available through the APS Website as PDF documents.

Volume 26 – 2025

• The Scammers’ Psychological Warfare: A Call to Arms
  December 2025 (Vol. 26, No. 3) PDF & HTML
  • Editorial: Fraud in the Age of AI: Commentary of “The Scammers’ Psychological Warfare”
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
• The Political Psychology of Economic Inequality
  September 2025 (Vol. 26, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: A PUBLIC Framework for the Political Psychology of Inequality
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
• What the Science of Learning Teaches Us About Arithmetic Fluency
  April 2025 (Vol. 26, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: The Importance of Early Mathematical Foundations, Sensemaking, and the Home Environment for Children’s Development of Arithmetic Fluency: Commentary on McNeil et al. (2025)
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 25 – 2024

• The Psychology of Framing: How Everyday Language Shapes the Way We Think, Feel, and Act
  December 2024 (Vol. 25, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: How Frames Can Promote Agency: Response to Flusberg et al. (2024)
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Addiction: Where Framing Can Be a Matter of Life and Death: Response to Flusberg et al. (2024)
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
• Cultural Defaults in the Time of COVID: Lessons for the Future
  October 2024 (Vol. 25, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: COVID and Cultural Defaults: A Public Health Officer’s Personal Perspective
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  • Editorial: Culture as a Social Determinant of Health
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  • Editorial: Cultural Psychology in the Interest of Public Health
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• Preventing Sexual Violence: A Behavioral Problem Without a Behaviorally Informed Solution
  May 2024 (Vol. 25, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 24 – 2023

• Adolescent Contact, Lasting Impact? Lessons Learned From Two Longitudinal Studies Spanning 20 Years of Developmental Science Research With Justice-System-Involved Youths
  December 2023 (Vol. 24, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Juvenile Justice: Meeting the Needs of Incarcerated Adolescent Populations
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
• Stigma Toward Substance Dependence: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Interventions
  November 2023 (Vol. 24, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Stigma Related to Substance Use and Addiction: The Long Journey Ahead—Commentary on Krendl and Perry (2023)
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: The Heterogenous Nature of Substance Use and Substance Use Disorders: Implications for Characterizing Substance-Related Stigma
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration
  July 2023 (Vol. 24, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial An Academic Career in Science Continues to Be a Hard Sell for Women: Putting Ceci et al. (2023) Into a Broader Perspective
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  • Editorial: Masculine Defaults in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fields
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 23 – 2022

• Stories in Action
  December 2022 (Vol. 23, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Call for Commentaries

• Scaling Up Change: A Critical Review and Practical Guide to Harnessing Social Norms for Climate Action
  October 2022 (Vol. 23, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Interventions Based on Social Norms Could Benefit From Considering Adversarial Information Environments: Comment on Constantino et al. (2022)
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Implicit-Bias Remedies: Treating Discriminatory Bias as a Public-Health Problem
  May 2022 (Vol. 23, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Implicit Bias Is a Public-Health Problem, and Hearts and Minds Are Part of the Solution
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 22 – 2021

• The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works
  December 2021 (Vol. 22, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: The Practice of Visual Data Communication: What Works
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Test a Witness’s Memory of a Suspect Only Once
  November 2021 (Supplemental Online Issue) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Psychological Interventions for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Adults
  September 2021 (Vol. 22, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Psychological Treatment for Chronic Pain: Improving Access and Integration
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• The Curious Construct of Active Learning
  April 2021 (Vol. 22, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: How Can We Make Active Learning Work in K–12 Education? Considering Prerequisites for a Successful Construction of Understanding
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 21 – 2020

• Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools
  December 2020 (Vol. 21, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Recognizing the Role of Psychological Science in Improving Online Spaces
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• Persistence and Fade-Out of Educational Intervention Effects: Mechanisms and Potential Solutions
  August 2020 (Vol. 21, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Interventions to Do Real-World Good: Generalization and Persistence
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  • Editorial: What We Are Learning About Fade-Out of Intervention Effects: A Commentary
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• Education and Cognitive Functioning Across the Life Span
  August 2020 (Vol. 21, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: How Do Cognitively Stimulating Activities Affect Cognition and the Brain Throughout Life?
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 20 – 2019

• Psychological Assessment in Legal Contexts: Are Courts Keeping “Junk Science” Out of the Courtroom?
  December 2019 (Vol. 20, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Expert Evidence: The (Unfulfilled) Promise of Daubert
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• A Neurobehavioral Approach to Addiction: Implications for the Opioid Epidemic and the Psychology of Addiction
  October 2019 (Vol. 20, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Commentary on Bechara et al.’s “A Neurobehavioral Approach to Addiction: Implications for the Opioid Epidemic and the Psychology of Addiction”
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• Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements
  July 2019 (Vol. 20, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Mapping the Passions: Toward a High-Dimensional Taxonomy of Emotional Experience and Expression
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Volume 19 – 2018

• Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control
  December 2018 (Vol. 19, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Self-Control and Its Discontents: A Commentary on Duckworth, Milkman, and Laibson
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Advancing the Science of Collaborative Problem Solving
  November 2018 (Vol. 19, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Collaborative Problem Solving: Social and Developmental Considerations
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert
  June 2018 (Vol. 19, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: What Research Tells Us About Reading Instruction
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 18 – 2017

• Increasing Vaccination: Putting Psychological Science Into Action
  December 2017 (Vol. 18, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Vaccines—Protecting Health and Saving Lives
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Three Approaches to Understanding and Classifying Mental Disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
  November 2017 (Vol. 18, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Moving Toward the Future in the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders
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• The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis
  April 2017 (Vol. 18, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: If I’m Certain, Is It True? Accuracy and Confidence in Eyewitness Memory
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Better-Informed Juries Will Yield More Reliably Just Outcomes: A Commentary on Wixted and Wells (2017)
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Distilling the Confidence-Accuracy Message: A Comment on Wixted and Wells (2017)
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 17 – 2016

• Do “Brain Training” Programs Work?
  October 2016 (Vol. 17, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Brain-Training Pessimism, but Applied Memory Optimism
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science
  September 2016 (Vol. 17, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Sexual Orientation: Categories or Continuum?
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• So Much To Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?
  May 2016 (Vol. 17, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Speed Reading: You Can’t Always Get What You Want, but Can You Sometimes Get What You Need?
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 16 – 2015

• The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States: Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Effective Law Enforcement
  December 2015 (Vol. 16, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Will the Current Crisis in Police Legitimacy Increase Crime? Research Offers a Way Forward
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• How Effective Is Telecommuting? Assessing the Status of Our Scientific Findings
  September 2015 (Vol. 16, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Commentary on How Effective Is Telecommuting? Assessing the Status of Our Scientific Findings
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Putting Education in “Educational” Apps: Lessons From the Science of Learning
  April 2015 (Vol. 16, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Educational Apps: What We Do and Do Not Know
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 15 – 2014

• Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape
  November 2014 (Vol. 15, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: It’s Complicated–In Fact, It’s Complex: Explaining the Gender Gap in Academic Achievement in Science and Mathematics
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care
  October 2014 (Vol. 15, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Creating and Changing Public Policy to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness
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• Cognitive Style as Environmentally Sensitive Individual Differences in Cognition: A Modern Synthesis and Applications in Education, Business, and Management
  May 2014 (Vol. 15, No. 1) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Adopted at Last!
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 14 – 2013

• Cooperation, Trust, and Antagonism: How Public Goods Are Promoted
  December 2013 (Vol. 14, No. 3) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Human Cooperation: Challenges for Science and Practice
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Challenges and Successes in Dissemination of Evidence-Based Treatments for Posttraumatic Stress: Lessons Learned From Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
  April 2013 (Vol. 14, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Achieving the Promise of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Conditions for Veterans
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology
  January 2013 (Vol. 14, No. 1) PDF & HTML(Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Applying Cognitive Psychology to Education: Translational Educational Science
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 13 – 2012

• Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing
  September 2012 (Vol. 13, No. 3) PDF & HTML(Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Knowing Our Options for Setting the Record Straight, When doing So Is Particularly Important
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• The Science of Training and Development in Organizations: What Matters in Practice
  June 2012 (Vol. 13, No. 2) PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Commentary on  The Science of Training and Development in Organizations: What Matters in Practice
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Online Dating: A Critical Analysis From the Perspective of Psychological Science
  March 2012 (Vol. 13, No. 1) PDF & HTML(Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Online Dating: The Current Status —and beyondPDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 12 – 2011

• Psychopathic Personality: Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Evidence and Public Policy
  December 2011 (Vol. 12, No. 3) PDF & HTML(Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Current Scientific Views of Psychopathy
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth? A Systematic Assessment of the Evidence
  August 2011 (Vol. 12, No. 2) PDF & HTML(Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Are Mentoring Programs a Worthwhile Social Investment?
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Science
  January 2011 (Vol. 12, No. 1) PDF & HTML(Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Educating the Gifted
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 11 – 2010

• Pitfalls and Opportunities in Nonverbal and Verbal Lie Detection
  December 2010 (Vol. 11, No. 3)
  PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Catching Liars
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death: How Researchers in Differential Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Are Collaborating to Understand and Address Health Inequalities
  August 2010 (Vol. 11, No. 2)
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  • Editorial: Commentary on “Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death”
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• Weighing the Costs of Disaster: Consequences, Risks, and Resilience in Individuals, Families, and Communities
  January 2010 (Vol. 11, No. 1)
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  • Editorial: Learning New Ways to Do Good
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 10 – 2009

• Bilingual Minds
  December 2009 (Vol. 10, No. 3)
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  • Editorial: The Consequences of Bilingualism for the Mind and the Brain
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Media Coverage

• The Effects of Preschool Education: What We Know, How Public Policy Is or Is Not Aligned With the Evidence Base, and What We Need to Know
  August 2009 (Vol. 10, No. 2)
  PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Starting Early on a New Educational Agenda for the United States
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
  • Editorial: Preschool Promises: An Introduction, Commentary, and Change
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Psychology, Financial Decision Making, and Financial Crises
  January 2009 (Vol. 10, No. 1)
  PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: The Crisis in Economics, a Challenge for Psychology
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 9 – 2008/2009

• Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence
  December 2009 (Vol. 9, No. 3)
  PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Editorial: Advances in Applying the Science of Learning and Instruction to Education
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Current Status and Future Prospects of Clinical Psychology: Toward a Scientifically Principled Approach to Mental and Behavioral Health Care
  October 2009 (Vol. 9, No. 2)
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  • Editorial: Connecting Clinical Practice to Scientific Progress
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Enrichment Effects on Adult Cognitive Development: Can the Functional Capacity of Older Adults Be Preserved and Enhanced?
  October 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 1)
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  • Editorial: Prospects for Improving Cognition Throughout the Life Course
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 8 – 2007

• What Should This Fight Be Called? Metaphors of Counterterrorism and Their Implications
  December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 3)
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  • Editorial: What’s in a Name? When It Comes to Terrorism and Counterterrorism, a Great Deal
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics
  November 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 2)
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  • Editorial: Statistical Literacy: A Prerequisite for Evidence-Based Medicine
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• The Science of Sex Difference in Science and Mathematics
  August 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 1)
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  • Editorial: Complex Questions Rarely Have Simple Answers
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 7 – 2006

• Enhancing the Effectiveness of Work Groups and Teams
  August 2006 (Vol. 7, No. 3)
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  • Editorial: The Science of Team Effectiveness
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• Eyewitness Evidence: Improving Its Probative Value
  November 2006 (Vol. 7, No. 2)
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  • Editorial: The Science of Eyewitness Testimony Has Come of Age
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
    
• Risk and Rationality in Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Theory, Practice, and Public Policy
  September 2006 (Vol. 7, No. 1)
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  • Editorial: Rationality and the Adolescent Mind
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

Volume 6 – 2005

• Neurotoxicants, Micronutrients, and Social Environments: Individuals and Combined Effects on Children’s Development
  December 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 3)
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  • Editorial: An Unhealthy Start in Life– What Matters Most?
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• What Differences Make a Difference? The Promise and Reality of Diverse Teams in Organizations
  October 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 2)
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  • Editorial: Diversity in Teams: A Two-edged Sword Requires Careful Handling
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• A Critical Assessment of Child Custody Evaluations: Limited Science and A Flawed System
  July 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 1)
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  • Editorial: A Cogent Case for a New Child Custody Standard
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Volume 5 – 2004

• Flawed Self-Assessment: Implications for Health, Education, and the Workplace
  December 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 3)
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  • Editorial: Blissfully Incompetent
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)

• The Psychology of Confessions: A Review of the Literature and Issues
  November 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 2)
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  • Editorial: The Devil in Confessions
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• Beyond Money: Towards and Economy of Well-Being
  July 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 1)
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Volume 4 – 2003

• The Influence of Media Violence on Youth
  December 2003 (Vol. 4, No. 3)
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  • Editorial: Science, Politics, and Violence in the Media
    PDF & HTML (Available to the Public)
  • Author’s Note
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• Does Early Psychological Intervention Promote Recovery From Posttraumatic Stress?
  November 2003 (Vol. 4, No. 2)
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• Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness or Healthier Lifestyles?
  May 2003 (Vol. 4, No. 1)
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Volume 3 – 2002

• Treatment and Prevention of Depression
  November 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
  PDF (Available to the Public)

• Ginkgo Biloba: A Cognitive Enhancer?
  May 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 1)
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  “Brain Specific” Nutrients: A Memory Cure?
  May 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 1)
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  • Editor’s Foreword
    PDF (Available to the Public)

Volume 2 – 2001

• How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading
  November 2001 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
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• Class Size and Student Achievement
  November 2001 (Vol. 2, No. 1)
  PDF (Available to the Public)

Volume 1 – 2000

• The Scientific Status of Projective Techniques
  November 2000 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
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• Psychological Science Can Improve Diagnostic Decisions
  November 2000 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
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