éditorial.

In this editorial, Peter Dixon expresses what a great honour it is to him to take on the editorship of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. He further remarks that the Journal has a long tradition of scientific excellence and rigour that he intends to uphold and foster. Dixon goes on to discuss various aspects of the Journal's nature, and also touches upon a few topics about the Journal's editorial policies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial.

Along with the new teal cover, the current issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (JCCP) marks the transition of the journal to a new editorial team. Although the discipline of clinical psychology has a diversity of fine journals, JCCP has long been regarded as a premier journal for publishing high-quality, empirical work in clinical psychology. The intention of the new editorial team is to continue the long-established tradition of excellence for JCCP and to ensure its ongoing influence and responsiveness to important innovations and new directions in contemporary clinical psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Lillian Gertrude Portenier (1890-1979).

Obituary briefly characterizes the background of Lillian G. Portenier and her contributions to the field of psychology. Her formal affiliation with psychology began in the fall of 1930, when she became assistant professor of psychology at the University of Wyoming, although she had been involved with psychology prior to that date. At the time, the Department of Psychology was headed by June Etta Downey. Funds were far from abundant and the teaching load was heavy, but Downey had established a tradition of excellence in both research and teaching and Portenier continued in that tradition. In 1934, after earning her doctorate in psychology from Columbia University, Portenier was promoted to associate professor of psychology and in 1939 to professor. During the World War II years of 1942-1944, she also served as acting head of the Department of Psychology and as acting head of Student Personnel Services. Lillian Portenier's major interests in psychology were related to mental testing, mental health, and child psychology. As well as teaching in these fields, she was active in applying the scientific method to society's problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial.

This editorial discusses how editorship of a journal such as JPSP: Attitudes and Social Cognition changes, it maybe be assumed (perhaps only by the new editor) that a new day is surely coming. This feeling is a good sign. However, we should not take the belief that great and new things are coming too seriously. The field of attitudes and social cognition has been doing quite well in recent years. A strong tradition of work has been established under extremely capable researchers and previous editorships, and we expect this tradition to continue. As always, the areas of primary importance will be defined by the research that is done and not by the values of the editor. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Leonard D. Eron.

Leonard D. Eron, Editor of Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1973-1980), died May 3, 2007, of complications of congestive heart failure, at the age of 87. He also served as associate editor of the American Psychologist (1986-90), and president of the Midwestern Psychological Association (1985-86) and of the International Society for Research on Aggression (1988-90). Dr. Eron's research focused on the causes of aggression, conducting an influential 40-year longitudinal study, as well as many collaborative cross-cultural studies with scholars in Europe. His research on the impact of media violence on children's behavior has been widely recognized. During his years as a professor at Yale University, the University of Iowa, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Michigan, he left his mark on countless students who carry on his tradition of merging research with the public policy applications of psychology. He was a Fulbright Scholar twice, and a member of many professional and governmental panels, including the National Research Council Panel on Understanding and Control of Violence and the American Psychological Association's Commission on Violence and Youth, of which he was the Chair. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and a fellow of the Academy of Clinical Psychology, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1980 he was given the APA award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge; in 1995 he received the American Psychological Foundation's Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest; and in 2003 he received APA's award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

La psychologie a l'universite d'Ottawa.

A sketch is made of the historical developments of the Faculty of Psychology and Education of the University of Ottawa. In the last 18 years the teaching of Psychology has taken major proportions at the University. What was a department of the Faculty of Arts until 1949 has now become an autonomous Faculty. Since July of 1967, Education has separated itself from the Faculty of Psychology although through cross-appointments of staff and through courses that are common to both Psychology and Education students, the two Faculties remain close to one another. To complete an M.A. in Psychology, a student must put in three years of residence during which he attends classes, undergoes internship training and finally prepares a thesis. At the Ph.D. level, the residence requirements are of two years (post M.A.). Specialization is offered in the following areas: Counselling, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Clinical Psychology, School Psychology and Child Psychology. More recently (in 1964) the Faculty instituted a research centre in psychophysiology. This centre has developed a section of animal psychology and very recently a cybernetics laboratory which has concentrated its efforts on the electronic measurement of intelligence. Projects are under way for expansion in the form of new buildings and new research centres. The first of these, a Centre for Child Study is being built this year at the cost of $2.5 million. Plans are also drawn for more buildings to house classrooms and laboratories, and these are expected to be completed by 1970. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Race and Political Correctness.

Comments on A. H. Yee et al (see record 1994-09250-001) discussion of psychology's problems with race and the nature and uncritical use of this ill-defined concept. Brace contends that the entire system of hierarchically arranged races, with their assumed differences in cognitive capacity, is the product of a long-continued tradition of political correctness. Psychology can benefit from the concept of race by demonstrating how social circumstances have operated to maintain the correlated differences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Iowa tradition.

Psychology at the University of Iowa began in 1887, when George R. W. Patrick started a psychology laboratory. Since its inception, Iowa psychology has passed through four stages, each with a distinctive emphasis: (a) the establishment of psychology as an independent discipline, (b) the development of psychology as an experimental science, based on natural science methodology, designed to yield reliable knowledge, (c) the formulation of a comprehensive theory, and (d) the current reorientation designed to benefit from the lessons of the past. The Iowa tradition in psychology, most indebted to the efforts and achievements of Carl E. Seashore and Kenneth W. Spence, represents the strivings for a synergistic relationship between experimental and applied psychology, a close and intimate bond between research and comprehensive theorizing, and a continuing methodological clarification of psychology. In line with the tradition of methodological surveillance, some of the major trends of Iowa psychology, during its third stage, are assessed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychology and the law: A shared vision for the 21st century.

Traces how the interface between psychology and law has emerged as a unique speciality within psychology, and notes initiatives by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) on regarding legal issues. James Ogloff, president-elect of the CPA, has launched an initiative, "Taking Psychology and Law into the 21st Century," which includes a focus on "Law and Psychology: A Bridge to the Future." This project will review the field, with the goal of determining where areas of research have been, are now, and should head. The APA presidential initiative started with the appointment of a working group that is planning for the first APA miniconference on Psychology and Law at the annual convention in 2000. The conference theme will be "Law and Psychology in the Workplace." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Annual Review of Psychology Vols. 5 & 6.

Reviews the fifth and sixth volumes of the book "Annual Review of Psychology," edited by Calvin P. Stone, and Quinn McNemar (1954, 1955). Where the topic itself provides the organization, as for instance in the chapters on the special senses, the factual approach works admirably, and the relevance of the data presented is established by a fairly well-articulated context. Looking back over this review it seems that too much time has been spent trying to tell a body of able and energetic psychologists how to do better what they are already doing extremely well. The Annual Review fulfills an indispensable function in the psychological world, and the 1955 volume worthily continues a short but honorable tradition. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial announcement.

The new editor of Health Psychology, Neil Schneiderman, acknowledges the contributions of George C. Stone, the founding editor of the journal, and discusses his own plans for seeing that the maturation of Health Psychology continues. The journal's emphasis will be upon strong, empirical research contributions, but space will also be allocated to other aspects of scholarship that appeal to a sophisticated readership. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Correction to Lombardo and Foschi (2003).

Reports an error in the original article by G. P. Lombardo and R. Foschi (History of Psychology, 2003, 2, 123-142). In the reference list, several works by Pierre Janet were identified as being Paul Janet. The correct references are provided, where Paul Janet is identified by the initial P. and Pierre Janet is identified by the initials P. M. F.. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 2003-03729-003.) Since the 1920s, the road to the acknowledgment of personality psychology as a field of scientific psychology that has individuality as its object began with the founding of the discipline by Gordon W. Allport. Historians of psychology have made serious attempts to reconstruct the cultural, political, institutional, and chronological beginnings of this field in America in the 20th century. In this literature, however, an important European tradition of psychological studies of personality that developed in France in the 2nd half of the 19th century has been overlooked. The aim of this article is to cast some light on this unexplored tradition of psychological personality studies and to discuss its influence on the development of the scientific study of personality in the United States. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Journal of Abnormal Psychology: Editorial.

In keeping with tradition, the editor of the current issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (1980, Vol. 89, No. 4) presents an account of his policies and goals for the benefit of readers and potential authors. The author discusses the Journal's coverage, criteria for acceptance, types of articles, evaluation procedures, and the blind review process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Comment policy.

Commentary on articles published in the journal makes a scientific contribution when it (a) brings to light critical controversies, (b) identifies important misconceptions or errors of inference, and/or (c) clarifies the implications of findings. Decisions about whether to publish occasional commentaries in the Journal of Applied Psychology have been guided more by tradition than by an explicit editorial policy. With the encouragement of the APA Publications and Communications Board, I have formulated a comment policy for the journal. There are two types of comments that the journal will consider for publication. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Distinguished contribution to education and training in psychology: Philip R. Laughlin.

Presents a brief overview of the career of Philip R. Laughlin. Philip R. Laughlin has made an outstanding contribution to the education and training of professional psychologists through his leadership in the Veterans Administration. As Chairperson for the Psychology Representation Training Committee, he has advised the VA on policy, affiliated programs, distribution of funds budgeted for psychology interns, and related matters. As Chair of the Committee on Psychology Training of the Association of VA Chief Psychologists and as a member of a number of VA committees and task forces, he has been a strong and articulate voice for psychology training in the VA system. He has also served as a member of the APA Committee on Accreditation, the Executive Committee of the Association of Psychology Internship Centers, and as recorder at the National Internship Training Conference in 1987. In all these roles, as well as in his work as Executive Officer for the Iowa Psychological Association, he has worked for the strengthening of support for, and excellence of, internship training in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychology and Aging: The first 20 years.

This article provides a review of the first 20 years of Psychology and Aging, the American Psychological Association's first and only scholarly journal devoted to the topic of aging. The authors briefly summarize its history, its contributions to the study of aging, and its broader status as a scholarly publication. One theme highlighted in our review is the diversity of content in the journal throughout its history. Another is the strong impact that articles published in the journal have had on both basic and applied topics in aging. Efforts to encompass the breadth of topics and methodologies in aging research while retaining excellent quality remain the exciting but essential challenge for Psychology and Aging. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The role of the American Board of Professional Psychology in professional mobility.

This article describes the role of certification by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in easing the process by which psychologists move beyond their original jurisdictional boundaries to practice psychology. Meeting the requirements for licensure or certification in the various jurisdictions can be a difficult task because these requirements vary considerably from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Other mechanisms that are available to facilitate this process include the Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology issued by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards and certification by the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. The ABPP certificate/diploma has been regarded by many state psychological associations and state boards of psychology as an appropriate way in which to recognize psychologists who are eligible for licensure/certification in a jurisdiction because of the examination requirements for board certification. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)