The management of Stress Management: A decade of the journal.

It has been more than four years since the last of my infrequent editorials in the International Journal of Stress Management (IJSM) and nearly a decade since my first (Carlson, 1998b). I am writing to you at this time first to inform you of a change in editorship, then to summarize a few high points of the past 10 years of IJSM as they relate to its management and future. My focus will be on matters dear to journal editors and useful to submitters and subscribers concerning submissions, content, and editorial activity, since such issues determine journal policy and direction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Inaugural editorial for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

When applying for the editorship of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, I was asked for my “vision” for the Journal, which I have outlined here as an inaugural editorial. My vision is in essence conservative in that I shall take the core of my brief to be that of maintaining the conception of the Journal established by Allan Wagner over 30 years ago and maintained so admirably by the subsequent editors over the intervening decades. I see this conception as having two main components, the first relating to content and the second to procedures. As far as the content is concerned, the primary aim of the Journal is to publish reports of empirical research that use behavior to investigate the psychological processes mediating learning, memory, motivation, and other forms of cognition in animals as diverse as invertebrates and humans. The criterion for publication is that the experimental research addresses issues of significant theoretical import. Although I shall retain the option of publishing Brief Communications, I intend to maintain a very high criterion for these communications. The primary goal will remain that of publishing substantial reports of integrative research that produce closure on an issue or analysis rather than piecemeal work. As far as procedures are concerned, over the last three decades the Journal’s editorial and refereeing process has made an important contribution to the intellectual climate of the research area. I hope to maintain this tradition by resisting pressures to constrain and truncate the refereeing and editorial processes in service of reducing the feedback and publication lags. The Journal publishes papers that have a substantial and sustained impact and therefore can tolerate a reflective and thoughtful editorial process. It is these two features that have enabled the Journal to maintain its position as the premier archival journal in the field, and I take my prime duty to be that of maintaining this preeminent status. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial.

Once again, a change has occurred. As you probably noticed, the color of the cover for this issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (JCCP) is different, signaling the “changing of the guard” of the editorial team. JCCP has a long-standing legacy of excellence in publishing high-quality, cutting-edge, and innovative research and scholarship in clinical psychology. Its increasing Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) impact factor rating continues to attest to its influence on the field overall. As the new editor, I intend to do my utmost to preserve this reputation. Moreover, I am humbled upon reflecting on those before me in this position, as well as excited about shepherding such a premier journal over the course of the next 6 years. I am cognizant not only of the impact that this journal has on the science of clinical psychology but also of its influence on clinical practice and service delivery via the dissemination and adoption of evidenced-based interventions. In this context, I am grateful for having been able to assemble such a high-caliber team of associate and consulting editors. This editorial presents some ideas for the future of JCCP in terms of content, structure, and format. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Call for papers and proposals for special issues: Expanding the scope of research and theory published in School Psychology Quarterly.

In my editorial statement in the last issue I indicated that "School Psychology Quarterly should be comprehensive in its coverage of our field [and]...it is my perception that the Quarterly needs to improve significantly in this regard" (Gutkin, 1998, p. 4). Extending the breadth of research and theory that appears in our journal is, in fact, one of my most central goals as your new Editor. While extraordinary and superb scholarly work has often been published in the Quarterly, and I have every desire to continue supporting these historically prevalent and crucial lines of scientific inquiry, it is my clear sense that focusing only on "more of the same" will not be sufficient to meet the future needs of either our readership or their clients. A broader array of perspectives and research questions are needed. Thus, I am issuing a "Call for Papers and Proposals for Special Issues" to begin the process of expanding the scope of scholarly work published in the Quarterly. My express purpose is to stimulate an ever-growing range of high quality research and theoretical work being submitted to the Quarterly. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial.

This is the first issue of Behavioral Neuroscience in which my name appears on the masthead as Editor. I am very pleased that Mark Blumberg, University of Iowa; John Gabrieli, Stanford University; Ann Kelley, University of Wisconsin; and Jeanne Wehner, University of Colorado, have agreed to serve as Associate Editors for the journal. Their research expertise reflects my interest in maintaining the strengths of the journal in the behavioral neuroscience of development (Mark Blumberg) and appetitive behavior and learning (Ann Kelley), as well as increasing our coverage of studies related to human and primate behavior and imaging (John Gabrieli) and mouse behavior and genetics (Jeanne Wehner). My own research program focuses on the neural mechanisms of learning and aging. We would like, of course, to invite all our readers to continue to submit some of their best work in the area of brain and behavior to Behavioral Neuroscience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Response to book reviews: Relating to my reviewers.

Responds to the reviews by K. O'Doherty (see record 2011-04026-005) and J. W. Clegg (see record 2011-04026-006) of the current author's book, Relational being: Beyond self and community (see record 2009-10534-000). One of my chief reactions to the resistances represented in these reviews is that the volume failed to make clear a vision of how we might go on together in the academic world where different viewpoints dominate. To elaborate: both reviewers take issue with my relational account in terms of its seeming dismissal or eradication of cherished concepts—including for Clegg, personal experience, genuine selfknowledge, and independent moral agency; and for O’Doherty, individual awareness, agency, and causality. In a certain sense their resistances are justified. My account raises critical concerns with such concepts, and in certain cases offers a radical reconceptualization. Both reviewers also suggest that these are questions of fundamental ontology, and offer arguments against what they see as my faulty foundations. However, as I tried to explain in the work, I approach theory development from a social constructionist perspective. This means replacing the traditional goal of the theorist to “tell the truth” about the world, with the attempt to generate an intelligibility that may foster different—and possibly more viable—forms of life. In effect, I am not attempting to articulate a final philosophy; I neither propose nor wish to argue ontology. From a constructionist perspective such arguments are futile; on what grounds other than those we construct could we settle such differences? Now to be fair, both Clegg and O’Doherty recognize this constructionist background, and my attempt to avoid eliminating alternative traditions or conceptions. However, this recognition does not deter them from returning to questions of fundamentals; they seem to want a knock-down conflict in which “justified true belief” will win out. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Measurements, causes, and effects of creativity.

In this article, I express my appreciation for the Korean teacher who recognized my potential and my American mentors who helped me identify the creative energy in myself. I discuss how living a “wonderful” Korean life smothered the essence of my being. Next, the overview of my research in creativity is discussed in 3 categories: measurement of creativity, causes of creativity, and effects of creativity. One effect of creativity summarizes how creativity can manifest itself as either a gift or a curse. The article ends with affirming that individualism promotes creativity and a discussion of the direction of my future research, which centers on helping students and adults identify the creative energy in themselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial policy of the Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

This issue marks the beginning of my editorship of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. Each incoming editor of a journal puts a new stamp on it, emphasizing continuity in some areas and undertaking new directions in others. In this statement of editorial policy for my tenure as the journal's editor I identify planned changes and new directions for the journal as well as editorial policies. I base these approaches both on my sense of the journal's needs and on issues I consider important for advancing the intellectual vitality of the field of consulting psychology. Outgoing editor Richard Diedrich's stewardship of this journal for the past 10 years is recognized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Racial microaggression? How do you know?—Revisited.

Comments on a reply by Sue et al. (see record 2008-05553-013). Sue, Capodilupo, Nadal, and Torino replied to four commentaries on their racial microaggressions article published in an earlier issue of the journal (Sue et al., May–June 2007). Sue et al. (2008) referred to three of the four authors, Schacht (2008), Thomas (2008), and Harris (2008), as “well-intentioned Whites”. The author states that After reading Sue et al.’s (2008) comments, I must admit to some anger and even more disbelief at a significant error. I am a native of La Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela and as such identify as a LatinoAmericano. While I personally dislike the term POC, the fact remains that per Sue et al.’s use of the definition, I fit into that categorical nomenclature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Incoming editorial: Bigger, purple, pragmatic, and parsimony.

It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that I write to you regarding several updates, new initiatives and changes with our journal. As you may have already noticed, this includes the change to a larger format, and a return to the color purple that helped define this journal from the early 1980s through the turn of the century, as well as to the original title “Psychotherapy.” The change in format will allow us to benefit from the standard American Psychological Association (APA) journal design and layout, leading to more efficient processing and arrangement within their electronic journal system. I have found this first year as the Incoming Editor of Psychotherapy to be as challenging, rewarding, and intellectually stimulating as I imagined it would be, and I remain quite excited and enthusiastic about the work ahead. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Disturbances of the mind.

Reviews the book, Disturbances of the mind by Douwe Draaisma and translated by Barbara Fasting (see record 2010-04898-000). Draaisma is an excellent storyteller. He gets the reader to stand on tiptoe to look over the barriers of time and place into specific biographic scenes and then quickly zooms out for a historical perspective. For North American readers, this Dutch psychologist and historian is a welcome guide on the journey to understand the work and lives of 11 European eponym-bearers: Bonnet, Parkinson, Broca, Jackson, Korsakoff, Gilles de la Tourette, Alzheimer, Brodmann, Clérambault, Capgras, and Asperger. Draaisma notes that he strove to be a “resurrectionist” (p. 3) of the thoughts, feelings, and context of these individuals. In achieving this objective he engenders empathy for past and present clinician-scientists and their patients and creates a work that will interest, engage, and even inspire educated readers outside the health professions as well as students and professionals in neurology, psychiatry, and psychology. Single chapters might be useful for support groups dealing with one of the eponymous disorders. My most serious criticism is Draaisma’s lack of a clear statement of the limits of his coverage of current research. His brief summary of current understanding of each eponymous disorder provides a welcome sense of integration, but, without qualification by the author, some readers may mistake this material for a comprehensive review. In particular I worried about this possibility when I read the Alzheimer’s disease chapter, in which Draaisma writes that research to date “has not created a single opening in the direction of treatment” (p. 225). I strongly urge that any recommendation of the book to lay readers or undergraduate or early graduate students be accompanied by the caveat that readers not rely on the book as the sole or even primary source of information regarding the current state of knowledge regarding a given disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial.

With this volume, the 47-year old Canadian Journal of Psychology takes a new name and makes a renewed commitment. In retitling the journal the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, the intention is to reflect more clearly what has always been the major goal of the journal--to publish the best new research in experimental psychology, both Canadian and international, in both French and English. I am honoured to become the tenth editor of the major journal for experimental psychology in Canada. CJP has served the field very well; my primary goal is to ensure that CJEP continues to do so. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Cultural influences on the process of conducting psychotherapy: Personal reflections of an ethnic minority psychologist.

I was asked to reflect how being a member of an ethnically diverse minority group, that is, Japanese American, may have influenced my clinical practice as a psychologist and psychotherapist. I first define the various facets of my “diversity status,” followed by an offering of reflections on how being a member of this group impacted both myself as a therapist and my clients. I conclude with several general recommendations geared to enhance a positive therapeutic alliance and client outcome. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Against the grain: “Matter” and “spirit”.

Comments on the original article, "Implications of near-death experiences for a postmaterialist psychology," by B. Greyson (see record 2010-03251-005). Although I will only comment on the paper by Greyson (2010), my initial thoughts pertain to the whole section, which explicitly framed itself as a repudiation of materialism and a defense of spiritual psychology. I find neither of these positions palatable or fair to the nature of reality, which seems to scoff at our pedestrian attempts to tame it, whether by crass materialism or spiritualism. Both “spiritual materialism” and “crass materialism” are but different manifestations of the same maladies: The refusal to consider data that do not fit preconceptions (i.e., that one’s beliefs, whether spiritual or “scientistic” may be wrong or, at least, incomplete), methodological poverty (i.e., that one’s method of knowledge, whether experiential or experimental is the only or the best way to apprehend all of reality), and philosophical shallowness (e.g., the “secret” that we attract what happens to us, which is an insult to the countless victims of genocides and brutalities throughout history, or the pronouncements that consciousness has been “explained” when we have no idea even how electrochemical impulses become experiences). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

“一带一路”背景下陕西矿产资源国际合作共同体研究

陕西省一直坚持“主合作并购、辅承包转让”的模式与其他国家进行国际矿产资源合作,并取得较多良好成绩。但是,陕西省矿产管理工作中仍存在诸如缺乏完善的风险防范机制、政府服务职能以及有待精简的审批流程等问题。作为“新丝绸之路”的重要组成部分,陕西省在“一带一路”背景下需要开发出一条更加适合未来发展方向的新型矿产资源国际合作之路。研究认为,构建矿产资源国际合作共同体能够从“共担命运”“共同发展”“共享利益”3个方面解决陕西省矿业发展中遇到的问题,应全面坚持政企联动、多元合作、夯实合作关系、强化投资区位选择的方向,积极构建矿产资源国际合作共同体。     

Editorial for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition has long held the position as the premier international outlet for psychological studies of memory and cognition. The journal publishes work that is programmatic, rigorously designed and analyzed, and of great theoretical importance. The work published here is widely cited and includes some of the most influential studies in the field of cognitive psychology. The journal has a fairly rapid turnaround time, and the reviews are typically of high quality. As editor, I will work to ensure that all of these positive aspects remain in place, and to make changes that I believe will help the journal maintain its leadership position in the future. There are two main innovations that I will bring to the journal. The first is to broaden coverage to include more articles related to cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. The second is to encourage the submission of shorter empirical articles through the initiation of a Brief Reports section. I also hope to attract some of the highest quality papers in cognitive neuroscience. I encourage my colleagues whose work includes both behavioral and neuroscientific approaches to submit their best papers to JEP: LMC. I hope to be able to continue the journal's long tradition of publishing some of the best and most influential papers in experimental psychology, while opening the door a bit wider to newer perspectives. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On being a Latina healer: Voice, consciousness, and identity.

A Latina psychotherapist relates her journey of becoming a healer. I discuss how my diversity status impacts on my life and on my approach to psychotherapy. My story offers clinical suggestions for therapists working with multicultural clients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Imagined interactions.

Social scientists have been studying imagined interactions since the mid-1980s and have measured numerous physiological correlates (Honeycutt, 2010). In this commentary I assess the research reported in Crisp and Turner (May–June 2009) and highlight the underlying mechanisms of imagined interactions that have empirically been laid out across Thailand, Japan, and the United States through confirmatory factor analyses (e.g., McCann & Honeycutt, 2006). The research in imagined interactions has been so extensive that “II” is a common acronym for the construct. Crisp and Turner’s (2009) article is excellent in its premise that prejudice may be ameliorated through IIs. I agree with their contention that “imagined contact is . . . an exciting prospect because it provides a simple, flexible, and effective means of promoting more positive perceptions”. Continued research on IIs is needed to further our understanding of conflict persistence, whether individuals can be taught to utilize IIs in a constructive manner for the purpose of creating quality relationships, and how IIs are used to adjust to life events. Interpersonal communication is informed by a better understanding of intrapersonal processes affecting daily experiences (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

“I have always thought about death, a death that I might give myself”.

This article, as well as the publication of a previously unpublished personal letter written by Jacques Derrida in his youth, relate to my thinking and research regarding the existential questions raised by philosophy and the act of suicide. Both the personal letter and the correspondence between Derrida and his close friend Michel Monory invite us to reflect on death and the enigma that suicidal ideation can take when presenting itself to a subject, while at the same time they provide us with valuable information about the origins of Derrida's oeuvre to come. Giving us a glimpse into the universe of a young tormented soul, who has already dreamed of “a book of extraordinary philosophy,” Jacques Derrida confides some of his philosophical, psychological, and—interesting in light of what we know will be his future—autobiographical reflections to his friend. I situate the context of this correspondence more precisely and give shape to the distant, buried form of what will have been friendship allowing us to gain a greater understanding of the act of autobiography, as well as the autobiographical pact—as Philippe Lejeune has theorized it—and how it relates to the work of mourning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)