Annual Review of Psychology articles from January 1 2002

Annual Review of Psychology archives from January 1 2002

Preface.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... September 11, 2001. December 7, 1941. November 22, 1963. July 4, 1776. Significant dates define the intersection of the global and the personal, the historical-political and the psychological. Although various dates represent defining moments...

Episodic memory: from mind to brain.
January 1, 2002... Key Words semantic memory, memory systems, amnesia, history of memory, functional neuroimaging, patient K.C. * Abstract Episodic memory is a neurocognitive (brain/mind) system, uniquely different from other memory systems, that enables...

Human aggression.
January 1, 2002... Key Words violence, harm, theory, general aggression model * Abstract Research on human aggression has progressed to a point at which a unifying framework is needed. Major domain-limited theories of aggression include cognitive...

Remembering over the short-term: the case against the standard model.
January 1, 2002... Key Words short-term memory, rehearsal, decay, activation, working memory * Abstract Psychologists often assume that short-term storage is synonymous with activation, a mnemonic property that keeps information in an immediately accessible...

Emotions, morbidity, and mortality: new perspectives from psychoneuroimmunology.
January 1, 2002... Key Words depression, immune function, social support, interleukin 6 * Abstract Negative emotions can intensify a variety of health threats. We provide a broad framework relating negative emotions to a range of diseases whose onset and...

Motivational beliefs, values, and goals.
January 1, 2002... Key Words expectancies, task value, goal theory, efficacy, volition, self-regulation * Abstract This chapter reviews the recent research on motivation, beliefs, values, and goals, focusing on developmental and educational psychology. The...

Cultural influences on personality.
January 1, 2002... Key Words individualism, collectivism, Big Five, indigenous psychologies, universals * Abstract Ecologies shape cultures; cultures influence the development of personalities. There are both universal and culture-specific aspects of...

Self and social identity *.
January 1, 2002... Key Words identity threat, group commitment, social context, identity functions, group distinctiveness * Abstract In this chapter, we examine the self and identity by considering the different conditions under which these are affected by...

Causes of eating disorders.
January 1, 2002... Key Words anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, contributory factors, identity, control * Abstract Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have emerged as the predominant eating disorders. We review the recent research evidence pertaining to the...

Insomnia: conceptual issues in the development, persistence, and treatment of sleep disorder in adults.
January 1, 2002... Key Words cognitive-behavior therapy, circadian rhythm, sleep homeostasis * Abstract This paper critically reviews the evidence base for previously reported conceptual models of the development and persistence of insomnia. Although a...

Change detection.(visual perception)
January 1, 2002... Key Words change blindness, visual attention, scene perception, eye movements, visual memory * Abstract Five aspects of visual change detection are reviewed. The first concerns the concept of change itself, in particular the ways it...

Organizational behavior: affect in the workplace.
January 1, 2002... Key Words moods and emotions, job satisfaction, positive and negative affectivity, work environments, job performance * Abstract The study of affect in the workplace began and peaked in the 1930s, with the decades that followed up to the...

Child clinical/pediatric neuropsychology: some recent advances.
January 1, 2002... Key Words pediatric neurology, childhood disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities, developmental disabilities * Abstract The neuropsychological assets and deficits of several types of pediatric neurological disease, disorder, and...

Effects of psychological and social factors on organic disease: a critical assessment of research on coronary heart disease *.
January 1, 2002... Key Words health psychology, cardiovascular disease, stress, depression, hostility * Abstract An extensive research literature in the behavioral sciences and medicine suggests that psychological and social factors may play a direct role in...

Socioeconomic status and child development.
January 1, 2002... Key Words socioeconomic status, poverty, achievement, adjustment, child well-being * Abstract Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most widely studied constructs in the social sciences. Several ways of measuring SES have been proposed,...

Adult clinical neuropsychology: lessons from studies of the frontal lobes.
January 1, 2002... Key Words neuropsychological assessment, brain functions, executive functions * Abstract Clinical neuropsychologists have adopted numerous (and sometimes conflicting) approaches to the assessment of brain-behavior relationships. We review...

Genetic contributions to addiction *.
January 1, 2002... Key Words substance abuse, animal models, QTL, gene-environment interaction, transgenic * Abstract Even the most extreme environmentalists along the nature-nurture continuum in psychology now acknowledge that genes often contribute to...

Gene-environment interplay in relation to emotional and behavioral disturbance.
January 1, 2002... Key Words quantitive genetics, molecular genetics, gene-environment correlations, gene-environment interactions, evolution * Abstract The conceptual and methodological issues involved in the study of gene-environment correlations (rGE) and...

Rationality.
January 1, 2002... Key Words judgment, choice, decision making, normative theories, cognition * Abstract This chapter reviews selected findings in research on reasoning, judgment, and choice and considers the systematic ways in which people violate basic...

Clinical assessment *.(economic, scientific, and cultural standards for clinical psychology)
January 1, 2002... Key Words managed care, multicultural assessment, forensic assessment, clinical judgment, computerized assessment * Abstract Are clinical psychologists' assessment practices cost-effective? Are they scientifically sound? Are they fair and...

Depression: perspectives from affective neuroscience.
January 1, 2002... Key Words mood disorders, psychopathology, neurobiology, emotion, emotion regulation * Abstract Depression is a disorder of the representation and regulation of mood and emotion. The circuitry underlying the representation and regulation...

Intergroup bias.(social prejudice)
January 1, 2002... Key Words conflict, discrimination, prejudice, social categorization, stereotyping * Abstract This chapter reviews the extensive literature on bias in favor of in-groups at the expense of out-groups. We focus on five issues and identify...

Latent variables in psychology and the social sciences.
January 1, 2002... Key Words unmeasured variables, unobserved variables, residuals, constructs, concepts, true scores * Abstract The paper discusses the use of latent variables in psychology and social science research. Local independence, expected value...