Annual Review of Psychology articles from January 1 2001

Annual Review of Psychology archives from January 1 2001

PREFACE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... We shall cope with the information explosion, in the long run, only if some scientists are prepared to commit themselves to the job of sifting, reviewing, and synthesizing information; i.e., to handling information with sophistication and...

SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY: An Agentic Perspective.
January 1, 2001... Key Words biosocial coevolution, collective efficacy, emergent properties, human agency, self-efficacy Abstract The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the essence of humanness. Human agency is...

NATURE AND OPERATION OF ATTITUDES.
January 1, 2001... Key Words belief, evaluation, attitude strength, accessibility, attitude-behavior relation Abstract This survey of attitude theory and research published between 1996 and 1999 covers the conceptualization of attitude, attitude formation...

META-ANALYSIS: Recent Developments in Quantitative Methods for Literature Reviews.
January 1, 2001... Key Words effect size, graphic displays, contrast analysis, moderator analysis, heterogeneity analysis Abstract We describe the history and current status of the meta-analytic enterprise. The advantages and historical criticisms of...

ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT.
January 1, 2001... Key Words adolescence, problem behavior, parenting, context, puberty Abstract This chapter identifies the most robust conclusions and ideas about adolescent development and psychological functioning that have emerged since Petersen's 1988...

EMPIRICALLY SUPPORTED PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS: Controversies and Evidence.
January 1, 2001... Key Words empirically supported therapies, empirically validated treatments, psychotherapy efficacy, psychotherapy effectiveness Abstract Efforts to increase the practice of evidence-based psychotherapy in the United States have led to the...

PROBLEMS FOR JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING.
January 1, 2001... Key Words values, utilities, preferences, expectations, uncertainty, decision weights, probabilities reference point, emotions Abstract This review examines recent developments during the past 5 years in the field of judgment and decision...

ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE.
January 1, 2001... Key Words dual-task interference, psychological refractory effect, task switching, attentional control, reflexive orienting Abstract Recent progress in the study of attention and performance is discussed, focusing on the nature of...

EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: Toward a Unifying Theory and a Hybrid Science.
January 1, 2001... Key Words social behavior, inclusive fitness theory, systems, cultural evolution, concilience, science and society Abstract Although evolutionary psychology is typically associated with "selfish gene theory," numerous other approaches to...

DECISION TECHNOLOGY.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Key Words decision theory, utility, probability, subjectively expected utility, World Wide Web Abstract This review is about decision technology--the rules and tools that help us make wiser decisions. First, we review the three rules that...

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: Psychosocial and Biobehavioral Aspects of Chronic Disease Management.
January 1, 2001... Key Words cancer, coronary heart disease, HIV/AIDS, psychosocial interventions Abstract Psychosocial factors appear to impact upon the development and progression of such chronic diseases as coronary heart disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS....

DISRESPECT AND THE EXPERIENCE OF INJUSTICE.
January 1, 2001... Key Words justice, fairness, procedural justice, retribution, distributive justice Abstract This review analyzes research and theory pertaining to the psychology of injustice, using as its organizing theme the role that the perception of...

COMPARING PERSONAL TRAJECTORIES AND DRAWING CAUSAL INFERENCES FROM LONGITUDINAL DATA.
January 1, 2001... Abstract This review considers statistical analysis of data from studies that obtain repeated measures on each of many participants. Such studies aim to describe the average change in populations and to illuminate individual differences in...

THE SCIENCE OF TRAINING: A Decade of Progress.
January 1, 2001... Key Words training design, training evaluation, distance training, team training, transfer of training Abstract This chapter reviews the training research literature reported over the past decade. We describe the progress in five areas of...

ACQUISITION OF INTELLECTUAL AND PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR SKILLS.
January 1, 2001... Key Words brain mechanisms, imagery, individual differences, memory, skill learning Abstract Recent evidence indicates that intellectual and perceptual-motor skills are acquired in fundamentally similar ways. Transfer specificity,...

OLFACTION.
January 1, 2001... Key Words aging, diseases, functional imaging, molecular biology, pheromones, psychophysics, vomeronasal organ Abstract The main and accessory olfactory systems have received considerable attention on the part of scientists and clinicians...

JOB BURNOUT.
January 1, 2001... Key Words work stress, organizational behavior, job engagement, stress management, job-person fit Abstract Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job, and is defined by the three dimensions...

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: A Cross-Language Perspective.
January 1, 2001... Key Words cross-linguistic, aphasia, language development * Abstract Cross-linguistic studies are essential to the identification of universal processes in language development, language use, and language breakdown. Comparative studies in...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL ATTENTION IN INFANCY.
January 1, 2001... Key Words infancy, attention, development, cognitive neuroscience, orienting, alertness * Abstract Over the past decade, the study of attention in infancy has seen dramatic progress. This review delineates four attentional functions...

STATISTICAL GRAPHICS: Mapping the Pathways of Science.
January 1, 2001... Key Words linking, slicing, brushing, EDA, rotating plots, dynamic display, interactive displays, multivariate analysis Abstract This chapter traces the evolution of statistical graphics starting with its departure from the common noun...

SLEEP-WAKE AS A BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM.
January 1, 2001... Key Words sleep-wake rhythms, free-running rhythms, light, melatonin Abstract Evidence that the sleep-wake rhythm is generated endogenously has been provided by studies employing a variety of experimental paradigms such as sleep...

CONSUMER RESEARCH: In Search of Identity.
January 1, 2001... Key Words buyer behavior, disciplinary influence, theory testing, substantive phenomena Abstract Although the consumer research field has made great progress over the past 30 years with respect to the scope, quality, and quantity of...

THINKING.
January 1, 2001... Key Words reasoning, analogy, domain-specific processes, mental models, learning Abstract Reasoning processes allow the human cognitive system to go beyond the information readily available in the environment. This review focuses on the...

PERSONALITY.
January 1, 2001... Key Words traits, social-cognitive processes, individual differences, institutional issues, evolutionary psychology, biological psychology Abstract Personality psychology is as active today as at any point in its history. The classic...

SENTENCE AND TEXT COMPREHENSION: Roles of Linguistic Structure.
January 1, 2001... Key Words psycholinguistics, parsing, grammar, anaphora, discourse Abstract Readers and listeners use linguistic structure in comprehending sentences and texts. We review research, mostly published in the past five years, that addresses the...

ON HAPPINESS AND HUMAN POTENTIALS: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being.
January 1, 2001... Key Words subjective well-being, psychological well-being, eudaimonia, happiness, wellness Abstract Well-being is a complex construct that concerns optimal experience and functioning. Current research on well-being has been derived from...

THEORIES OF ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN ANIMALS.
January 1, 2001... Key Words conditioning, occasion setting, causal judgment, attention, context Abstract Theories of associative learning are concerned with the factors that govern association formation when two stimuli are presented together. In this...