Consultants for 2001.

An acknowledgement list of those who served as consultants to the American Psychologist during 2001. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Consultants for 2005.

The American Psychologist gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following persons who served as consultants during the period from September 1, 2004, through August 31, 2005. The editorial procedures of the journal are dependent on the effort and time so generously contributed by the consultants. Their contributions are greatly appreciated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Publication Problems and the Annual Convention.

The American Psychologist has published numerous letters and some articles dealing with two separate topics: (a) how to do something about the current publication problems burdening psychology, and (b) ways of improving the annual convention. Our contention is that these two matters are not unrelated. We offer a proposal for a joint solution. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

An obituary section in the American Psychologist.

Starting with this issue, obituaries of recently deceased members of the APA will be published regularly in the American Psychologist. We are initiating this new feature with the encouragement of the Editor of the AP and on the recommendation of the Publications and Communications Board. The growing interest in the history of psychology, enhanced at present by the celebration of the centennial of the founding of Wundt's laboratory, makes the inauguration of the section especially timely. The men and women whose lives have been spent as psychologists reflect history through their contributions to psychology's advance as a science and as a profession. Through their teachers before them and their students and others who have been influenced by them, there are connecting threads from the past into the future. The selection of a few persons whose careers have been sufficiently distinguished to be recognized in this manner is necessarily arbitrary, and no firm and fast rules can be devised for deciding whose obituaries should appear. In order to inaugurate the publication of obituaries, the Section Editor has sought the assistance of an advisory committee of psychologists identified with the history of psychology and with the biographies of psychologists. The final decisions have rested, and will continue to rest, with the Section Editor, concerning those to be included, the length of the obituaries requested, and those invited to prepare them. Full cooperation will be needed to make this section of the AP serve well its intended purposes. Deaths should be reported promptly to the AP office. Comments on published obituaries, looking forward to making future ones more useful, may be sent privately to the Section Editor. After some experiences in publishing these accounts, improved guidelines can be given to those who are invited to prepare them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Proposed bylaw revisions: Commentary.

"The Report of the 1964 Policy and Planning Board which appeared in the March 1965 American Psychologist invited comments to the Board. To date, the Policy and Planning Board has received letters from 5 individuals and 12 state associations regarding the recommended Bylaw changes providing for representation on the Council of Representatives." Representative comments from state associations in Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, and Washington are reproduced. The other responding states are Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. "All 12 state association comments were in substantial agreement." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

About This Special Issue.

When the idea for a special issue of the American Psychologist was discussed among members of the International Affairs Committee of the Association, the major hope of the members was to obtain contributions that would provide the Association with fresh perspectives on psychology, basic and applied. The guest editor discusses lessons learned from the papers in this special issue, and highlights several articles in detail. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Correction to resignation list reported in July.

Due to a communications failure, and to publication deadlines, 68 names appear on the list of 1986 resignations printed on pp. 643-649 of the July 1987 American Psychologist when they should not have been included. This article provides a list of the mistakenly included resignations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial statement of the American Psychologist: II.

Editing a journal that combines professional, scientific, and public policy interests is a strange business, indeed. Although this January 1987 issue of the American Psychologist (AP) begins the second year of my editorship, it is the first issue that actually reflects my editorial input and that of my associate editors. This state of affairs results from both the usual 9- to 10-month publication lag and the normal transition process between two editorial terms. It seems worthwhile to use my "first" issue as an opportunity to comment on the editorial direction of the journal, about the editorial process itself (and some changes we have made in it), and about some specific modifications in format that you will see in coming issues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial statement of the American Psychologist: III.

Presents an editorial statement about the publication policies of the American Psychologist (AP). About half the contents of the AP are documents that report on the activities of the Association—the minutes of the Council of Representatives, the address of the immediate Past President, and those reports of the Association boards and committees of concern to a large percentage of the membership. The remaining pieces are articles that the editorial board and the ad hoc reviewers judge to be of sufficient interest and consequence to appeal to the large and heterogeneous readership of the AP. These articles should explicitly address the broadest scientific and practical implications of the topic under consideration. In addition, a new series, tentatively called "Science Watch," will appear in the AP on an irregular basis. The purpose will be to cover articles that broaden our understanding of the discipline, that enable us to understand the connections between our discipline and others, and that help us glimpse the directions in which our science is moving. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologist and Psychiatrist.

The recent renascence in print in the "American Psychologist" of the issues between psychologists and psychiatrists prompts me to vent my spleen on some of the topics so well brought out by Ausubel et al. in the February, 1956 issue. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lines written on first beholding the November issue of American Psychologist.

Article is a humorous poem regarding the cover color format of the November Issue of American Psychologist. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Contributors.

This page provides biographies and professional information on the contributors for this issue of the American Psychologist. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Consultants for 2010.

The American Psychologist acknowledges the assistance of the persons who served as consultants during the period from September 1, 2009, through August 31, 2010. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)