In this special collection of essays, leading psychologists share what
they see as the next big research questions in the coming decade.

Each week through 2009, a new article will be featured
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The Next
Big Questions
in Psychology

This Week's Discussion
Know Thyself
Timothy D. Wilson
How well do you know yourself? A new report discusses theories of how people form beliefs about themselves and challenges to the study of self-knowledge, and also offers some ways that can help us learn more about ourselves.
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Featured articles are from a special issue of
Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 4, Issue 4).
The contents of the full issue is below

Table of Contents

Volume 4, Issue 4
Editor Ed Diener

Perspectives on
Psychological
Science is a journal
of the Association for
Psychological Science.

Editor's Introduction

The Future of Psychology:
Connecting Mind to Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett

Naive and Obvious Questions
David C. Funder


The Nature (and Nurture?) of Plasticity
in Early Human Development
Jay Belsky and Michael Pluess

The "Humpty Dumpty Problem" in the Study of Early
Cognitive Development: Putting the Infant Back Together Again
Lisa M. Oakes

How Can Evolutionary Psychology Successfully Explain
Personality and Individual Differences? 
David M. Buss

Psychoneuroimmunology:
Psychology's Gateway to the Biomedical Future
Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser

How to Tell If a Particular Memory Is True or False
Daniel M. Bernstein and Elizabeth F. Loftus

Can We Improve Our Physical Health by Altering Our Social Networks?
Sheldon Cohen and Denise Janicki-Deverts

How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, and Max H. Bazerman
 
Know Thyself
Timothy D. Wilson

Giving Debiasing Away: Can Psychological Research
on Correcting Cognitive Errors Promote Human Welfare?
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Rachel Ammirati, and Kristin Landfield

Unpacking Intuition: A Conjecture
Martin E.P. Seligman and Michael Kahana

Perspectives on Preference Aggregation
Michel Regenwetter

Mechanisms of Gene-Environment Interaction Effects in the Development of Conduct Disorder
Kenneth A. Dodge

Why Do Different Individuals Progress Along Different Life Trajectories?
Gregory T. Smith

Achieving and Sustaining a Good Life
Nansook Park and Christopher Peterson

Human-Android Interaction in the
Near and Distant Future
Neal J. Roese and Eyal Amir

What Kind of Empirical Research Should We Publish, Fund, and Reward?: A Different Perspective
Paul Rozin