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Where Have All the Critics Gone? Moral Psychology and the Question of Selective Resistance to War: From Vietnam, to an Israeli Vietnam, to the Intifada
War has been particularly a world apart for the vast majority of psychological studies on morality which for the most part were conducted in...
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A Screening Questionnaire for Asperger Syndrome and Other High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders in School Age Children
The high-functioning Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ) is a 27-item checklist for completion by lay informants when assessing symptoms...
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Juries
In 1908, when Hugo Munsterberg, then director of the Harvard Psychological Laboratory, published On the Witness Stand, he claimed that experimental...
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Critical Issues in the Assessment of Child Sexual Abuse
This article explores the feasibility of using standardized psychometric methods in the initial stages of an investigation of child sexual abuse;...
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Neglected Questions at the Interface of Psychology and Religion
Critical questions basic to all research at the interface of psychology and religion are customarily neglected: what does it mean to regard and/or...
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The Impact of HIV Infection on Psychological Functioning and Quality of Life
The HIV-related physical, social, and sexual threats, as well as psychological issues discussed in previous chapters, represent profound threats to...
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The Child Molester Empathy Measure: Description and Examination of Its Reliability and Validity
The aim of the two studies presented here was to produce and refine a measure of victim empathy for the assessment of child molesters. In the first...
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Developmental Contextualism and the Developmental Systems Perspective
Developmental contextualism (Lerner, 1986, 1991, 1995, 1998b) is an instance of a theoretical orientation to human development termed “developmental...
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Implications for Policy Design, Delivery, and Evaluation
From the perspective of developmental contextualism, policies—and the programs that do (or should) derive from them—merge (or, better, synthesize)...
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Theory and Research in the Study of Childhood Exceptionalities
Theory and research in the study of childhood exceptionalities are currently in a state of rapid change (Adelman, 1995; Kazdin & Kagan, 1994; Mash &...
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Attentional Focus of Students with Hyperactivity During a Word-Search Task
Mirrors have been used to focus attention to aspects of the self (e.g., to known strategies, standards). We hypothesized that this could be important...
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Social and Contextual Issues in Interventions with Children and Families
Children and families face unprecedented challenges to their health, positive development, and—most basically—survival. They are confronted by...
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New Approaches to the Study of Mother-Infant Interactions
Dynamic systems theory entails a new approach to the development of social relationships, in fact principles of non-linear dynamics,...
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Empirical Support for the Critical Assumptions of Empowerment Theory
This exploratory case study provides empirical support for three critical assumptions of empowerment theory. Many empowerment theorists have argued...
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Postinjury Marriage to Men with Spinal Cord Injury: Women's Perspectives on Making a Commitment
No previous research seems to have examined why able-bodied women might choose to marry men with a significant, permanent physical impairment. This...
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Personal agency in feminist theory: Evicting the illusive dweller
The growing impact of feminist scholarship, activism, and politics would benefit substantially from input by radical behaviorists. The feminist...
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Predictors of Attrition from an Outpatient Chemical Dependency Program
This study investigated differences between completers and noncompleters of an intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program to identify key...
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Self-Affirmation Reduces Biased Processing of Health-Risk Information
An experiment tested whether a positive experience (the endorsement and recall of one's past acts of kindness) would reduce biased processing of...
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Some cautions regarding statistical power in split-plot designs
We show that if overall sample size and effect size are held constant, the power of the F test for a one-way analysis of variance decreases...