September 2004
Volume 17, Number 9
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The AP Psychology Reading
By Charles T. Blair-Broeker Life's a beach for Charles T. Blair-Broeker and Advanced Placement Psychology test readers. (News) |
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Mickey Mantle's Greatest Error
By Eric Jaffe Yankee star's false belief may have cost him years. (News) |
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It Is the Best of Times, It Is (Not Quite) the Worst of Times
By Robert W. Levenson With apologies to Charles Dickens, APS President Robert W. Levenson discusses the state of psychological science in his first Presidential Column. (Presidential Column) |
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Forum Letters
Endel Tulving's gorilla, the 1904 World's Fair, and behaviorism are topics of discussion in the Observer Forum. (Letters) |
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Beyond the Classroom
By Merry J. Sleigh and Darren R. Ritzer Developing students' professional social skills. (Teaching Tips) |
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Navigating Your First IRB Review
By Aaron S. Richmond Tips on how students can mentally and physically prepare for an IRB review. (Student Notebook) |
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Psychology All-Stars: Susan T. Fiske
By Jennifer Thorpe In an ongoing APS Student Caucus series, Susan T. Fiske shares her advice for success and challenges facing graduate students. (News) |
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September 2004 People
Influential Researcher Phillip Holzman Dies at 82. APS Fellows Greenwald and Pepperberg Named Radcliffe Fellows. Blackwell Publishing's acquisition of Personnel Psychology and Rosalind D. Cartwright's sleep research award. (News) |
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Ramirez First Psychologist to Receive NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching
APS Member Julio Ramirez became the first psychologist to receive the NSF award for combined excellence in teaching and research. (News) |
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Those Who Can, Teach
By Eric Jaffe Chronicling the careers of veteran researchers who are master teachers. (News) |
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Ways of the Master Teacher
By William Buskist In 1998 William Buskist traveled the country studying the behavior of master teachers. This is his first material published about that journey. (News) |
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Robert W. Levenson Becomes APS President
By Hannah Sanderson Michael S. Gazzaniga is President-Elect; Richard R. Bootzin and Elizabeth Phelps are elected to APS Board. (News) |
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Toward a Psychology of Human Agency
By Kate Volpe Albert Bandura's James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Address at the 16th Annual Convention. (News) |
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Deconstructing Depression
By George M. Slavich George M. Slavich, first recipient of the Psi Chi/APS Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award, examines a diathesis-stress perspective. (News) |
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A Psychologist in Charge
By Dave Wilson A profile of National Cancer Institute division director Robert T. Croyle. (News) |
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Life After the Ivory Tower
By David C. Geary APS Fellow Donald Kausler's second career is as a guru on aging. (News) |
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Dating the Data
By Traci Y. Craig A case for including temporal information in research articles. (News) |