Annual Review of Psychology articles from January 1 2004

Annual Review of Psychology archives from January 1 2004

Preface.
January 1, 2004... If you are reading this preface, you are probably holding the book, and not a mouse, in your hand. But you could be holding a mouse. Having accessed the Annual Reviews home page, http://www.AnnualReviews.org, and selected the Psychology series,...

Toward an integrative science of the person.
January 1, 2004... Key Words personality, social cognitive theory, personality processes, personality dynamics, role of situation, personality paradox, personality signatures * Abstract To build a science of the person, the most basic question was, and...

On building a bridge between brain and behavior.
January 1, 2004... Key Words linking proposition, linking hypothesis, stop signal, countermanding, response preparation, intention, eye field, reaction time, response time, saccade * Abstract Cognitive neuroscience is motivated by the precept that a...

The neurobiology of consolidations, or, how stable is the engram?
January 1, 2004... Key Words memory, consolidation, persistence, retrieval, reconsolidation * Abstract Consolidation is the progressive postacquisition stabilization of long-term memory. The term is commonly used to refer to two types of processes: synaptic...

Understanding other minds: linking developmental psychology and functional neuroimaging.
January 1, 2004... Key Words theory of mind, mentalizing, social cognition, cognitive neuroscience * Abstract Evidence from developmental psychology suggests that understanding other minds constitutes a special domain of cognition with at least two...

Hypocretin (orexin): role in normal behavior and neuropathology *.
January 1, 2004... Key Words REM sleep, hypothalamus, narcolepsy, cataplexy, feeding, motor, alertness * Abstract The hypocretins (Hcrts, also known as orexins) are two peptides, both synthesized by a small group of neurons, most of which are in the lateral...

Speech perception.
January 1, 2004... Key Words auditory pattern recognition, categorical perception, phonetic context effects, perceptual learning, speech production * Abstract This chapter focuses on one of the first steps in comprehending spoken language: How do listeners...

Visual mechanisms of motion analysis and motion perception.
January 1, 2004... Key Words first-order motion, second-order motion, third-order motion, feature tracking, psychophysics * Abstract Psychophysical experiments on feature tracking suggest that most of our sensitivity to chromatic motion and to second-order...

Cumulative progress in formal theories of attention.
January 1, 2004... Key Words signal detection, similarity, choice, attention, mathematical psychology * Abstract Formal theories of attention based on similarity-choice theory and signal-detection theory are reviewed to document cumulative progress in...

The psychology and neuroscience of forgetting.
January 1, 2004... Key Words interference, consolidation, psychopharmacology, LTP, sleep * Abstract Traditional theories of forgetting are wedded to the notion that cue-overload interference procedures (often involving the A-B, A-C list-learning paradigm)...

Object perception as Bayesian inference.
January 1, 2004... Key Words shape, material, depth, vision, neural, psychophysics, fMRI, computer vision * Abstract We perceive the shapes and material properties of objects quickly and reliably despite the complexity and objective ambiguities of natural...

Development in midlife.
January 1, 2004... Key Words biopsychosocial changes, generativity, health and well-being, middle age, sense of control, work/family balance * Abstract The midlife period in the lifespan is characterized by a complex interplay of multiple roles. The goal of...

The intergenerational transfer of psychosocial risk: mediators of vulnerability and resilience.
January 1, 2004... Key Words intergenerational processes, transfer of risk, longitudinal studies, parenting, childhood aggression * Abstract The recurrence of social, behavioral, and health problems in successive generations of families is a prevalent theme...

Development in the family.
January 1, 2004... Key Words ethnicity, socialization, siblings, gay-lesbian parents, new reproductive technologies, parenting * Abstract In this chapter were view theoretical conceptual and empirical advances in family research and the implications for...

Schizophrenia: etiology and course.
January 1, 2004... Key Words diathesis-stress, genetic, neurodevelopment * Abstract Decades of research on schizophrenia have not produced major breakthroughs, but gradual progress has been made in identifying risk factors and clarifying the nature of the...

Clinical implications of reinforcement as a determinant of substance use disorders.
January 1, 2004... Key Words alternative reinforcers, behavioral economics, community reinforcement, contingency management, vouchers * Abstract Extensive scientific evidence indicates that reinforcement plays an important role in the genesis, maintenance,...

Motivational influences on cigarette smoking.
January 1, 2004... Key Words tobacco, addiction, drug use, nicotine, dependence * Abstract Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity and a particularly common and intractable addictive disorder. Research shows that nicotine is a sine qua...

Self-knowledge: its limits, value, and potential for improvement.
January 1, 2004... Key Words implicit, nonconscious, repression, self-insight, self-perception * Abstract Because of personal motives and the architecture of the mind, it may be difficult for people to know themselves. People often attempt to block out...

Gender in psychology.
January 1, 2004... Key Words sex differences, within-sex differences, social power, intersectionality * Abstract Gender is increasingly understood as defining a system of power relations embedded in other power relations. Psychological research on...

Mediated politics and citizenship in the twenty-first century.
January 1, 2004... Key Words media/democracy interface, citizenship models, information processing, learning from news, news media content * Abstract Since the birth of the nation, concepts about the political duties of citizens have changed drastically to...

The Internet and social life.
January 1, 2004... Key Words communication, groups, relationships, depression, loneliness * Abstract The Internet is the latest in a series of technological breakthroughs in interpersonal communication, following the telegraph, telephone, radio, and...

Social influence: compliance and conformity.
January 1, 2004... Key Words obedience, norms, foot-in-the-door, door-in-the-face, motivation * Abstract This review covers recent developments in the social influence literature, focusing primarily on compliance and conformity research published between...

Group performance and decision making.
January 1, 2004... Key Words group motivation, process losses, process gains, group information processing, shared cognitions * Abstract Theory and research on small group performance and decision making is reviewed. Recent trends in group performance...

Creativity.
January 1, 2004... Key Words divergent thinking, ideation, originality, flexibility, domains of performance, implicit theories, problem finding * Abstract Creativity has clear benefits for individuals and society as a whole. Not surprisingly, a great deal of...

Psychology and culture.
January 1, 2004... Key Words cross-cultural differences in social cognition, cultural emergence * Abstract Psychological processes influence culture. Culture influences psychological processes. Individual thoughts and actions influence cultural norms and...

Teaching of subject matter.
January 1, 2004... Key Words educational psychology, cognitive psychology, learning, instruction, reading * Abstract Psychology of subject matter refers to the scientific study of learning and instruction within school subjects. The growing research...

Coping: pitfalls and promise.
January 1, 2004... Key Words coping critique, coping measurement, positive emotion, coping effectiveness, coping and meaning * Abstract Coping, defined as the thoughts and behaviors used to manage the internal and external demands of situations that are...

Survey research and societal change.
January 1, 2004... Key Words response rates, modes of data collection, telephone sampling, Web surveys * Abstract Surveys reflect societal change in away that few other research tools do. Over the past two decades, three developments have transformed...

Human research and data collection via the Internet.
January 1, 2004... Key Words anonymity, browser-based research, CGI, computers in psychology, computer programming, experimental dropouts, experimenter bias, HTML, HTML forms, Internet research, Java, JavaScript, methodology, missing data, on-line research, Perl,...