Annual Review of Psychology articles from January 1 2003

Annual Review of Psychology archives from January 1 2003

Preface.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... Enlightened schools and colleges all tout a lifelong love of learning as their central goal. By graduate school, love of learning somehow loses salience as a goal, perhaps because getting to that educational level is such a challenge that...

Biology, context, and developmental inquiry.
January 1, 2003... Abstract This chapter summarizes some of the conceptual changes in developmental research over the last half-century. These advances include an acknowledgment of the role of maturation; also recognized have been the need for positing distinct...

Addiction.
January 1, 2003... Abstract The development of addiction involves a transition from casual to compulsive patterns of drug use. This transition to addiction is accompanied by many drug-induced changes in the brain and associated changes in psychological functions....

Language processing: functional organization and neuroanatomical basis.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Earlier formulations of the relation of language and the brain provided oversimplified accounts of the nature of language disorders, classifying patients into syndromes characterized by the disruption of sensory or motor word...

Neuroimaging studies of language production and comprehension.
January 1, 2003... Abstract The 1990s were dubbed the "Decade of the Brain." During this time there was a marked increase in the amount of neuroimaging work observing how the brain accomplishes many tasks, including the processing of language. In this chapter we...

Operant conditioning.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Operant behavior is behavior "controlled" by its consequences. In practice, operant conditioning is the study of reversible behavior maintained by reinforcement schedules. We review empirical studies and theoretical approaches to two...

Signalers and receivers in animal communication.
January 1, 2003... Abstract In animal communication natural selection favors callers who vocalize to affect the behavior of listeners and listeners who acquire information from vocalizations, using this information to represent their environment. The acquisition...

Firsthand learning through intent participation.
January 1, 2003... Abstract This article examines how people learn by actively observing and "listening-in" on ongoing activities as they participate in shared endeavors. Keen observation and listening-in are especially valued and used in some cultural...

Psychopathology in the postgenomic era.
January 1, 2003... Abstract We are rapidly approaching the postgenomic era in which we will know all of the 3 billion DNA bases in the human genome sequence and all of the variations in the genome sequence that are ultimately responsible for genetic influence on...

Progress and controversy in the study of posttraumatic stress disorder.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Research on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been notable for controversy as well as progress. This article concerns the evidence bearing on the most contentious issues in the field of traumatic stress: broadening of the...

Psycotheraphy for children and adolescents.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Child and adolescent therapy has progressed considerably, as reflected in the number of controlled studies, their methodological quality, and identification of evidence-based treatments. Treatments with strong evidence in their behalf...

Eyewitness testimony.
January 1, 2003... Abstract The criminal justice system relies heavily on eyewitness identification for investigating and prosecuting crimes. Psychology has built the only scientific literature on eyewitness identification and has warned the justice system of...

Implicit measures in social cognition research: their meaning and use.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Behavioral scientists have long sought measures of important psychological constructs that avoid response biases and other problems associated with direct reports. Recently, a large number of such indirect, or "implicit," measures have...

Facial and vocal expressions of emotion.
January 1, 2003... Abstract A flurry of theoretical and empirical work concerning the production of and response to facial and vocal expressions has occurred in the past decade. That emotional expressions express emotions is a tautology but may not be a fact....

Interdependence, interaction, and relationships.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Interdependence theory presents a logical analysis of the structure of interpersonal situations, offering a conceptual framework in which interdependence situations can be analyzed in terms of six dimensions. Specific situations...

The psychology of religion.
January 1, 2003... Abstract This chapter discusses progress in the psychology of religion by high-lighting its rapid growth during the past 25 years. Recent conceptual and empirical developments are described, with an emphasis on the cognitive and affective basis...

Personality, culture, and subjective well-being: emotional and cognitive evaluations of life.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Subjective well-being (SWB), people's emotional and cognitive evaluations of their lives, includes what lay people call happiness, peace, fulfillment, and life satisfaction. Personality dispositions such as extraversion, neuroticism,...

Community contexts of human welfare.
January 1, 2003... Abstract This chapter identifies "context minimization error" as the tendency to ignore the impact of enduring neighborhood and community contexts on human behavior. The error has adverse consequences for understanding psychological processes...

Cultural pathways through universal development.
January 1, 2003... Abstract We focus our review on three universal tasks of human development: relationship formation, knowledge acquisition, and the balance between autonomy and relatedness at adolescence. We present evidence that each task can be addressed...

Human-computer interaction: psychological aspects of the human use of computing.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field in which psychology and other social sciences unite with computer science and related technical fields with the goal of making computing systems that are both useful and...

The early education of socioeconomically disadvantaged children.
January 1, 2003... Abstract This chapter reviews selected research on the education of low-socioeconomic status (SES) children from birth through the first years of elementary school. Themes include the importance of early academic skills and interest to later...

Psychological aspects of natural language use: our words, our selves.
January 1, 2003... Abstract The words people use in their daily lives can reveal important aspects of their social and psychological worlds. With advances in computer technology, text analysis allows researchers to reliably and quickly assess features of what...

Diary methods: capturing life as it is lived.
January 1, 2003... Abstract In diary studies, people provide frequent reports on the events and experiences of their daily lives. These reports capture the particulars of experience in a way that is not possible using traditional designs. We review the types of...

Qualitative and quantitative analyses of historical data.
January 1, 2003... Abstract Although the typical study in psychology involves the quantitative analysis of contemporary research participants, occasionally psychologists will study historical persons or events. Moreover, these historical data may be analyzed...