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GENERAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES: ETIOLOGY, TREATMENT AND CLASSIFICATION

Psychology and neuroscience: Making peace, G. A. Miller and J. Keller.

Evolutionary psychology: The wheat and the chaff, F. De Waal.

Three laws of behavior genetics and what they mean, E. Turkheimer.

Situation-behavior profiles as a locus of consistency in personality, W. Mischel, Y. Shoda and R. Mendoza-Denton.

Feedback interventions: Toward the understanding of a double-edged sword, A. N. Kluger and A. DeNisi.

Computer-and internet-based psychotherapy interventions, C. B. Taylor and K. Luce.

DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, PTSD, DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS AND STRESS

Gender differences in depression, S. Nolen-Hoeksema.

The clustering and contagion of suicide, T. E. Joiner.

The malicious serpent: Snakes as a prototypical stimulus for an evolved module of fear, A. Ohman and S. Mineka.

Lessons from the study of psychogenic amnesia, Arrigo and Pezdek.

Recovering memories of trauma: A view from the laboratory, R. J. McNally.

Stress, positive emotion, and coping, S. Folkman and J. T. Moskowitz.

PERSONALITY DISORDERS, EATING DISORDERS, SUBSTANCE USE, SEXUAL DISORDERS, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEMENTIA

Self-esteem, narcissism and aggression: Does violence result from low self-esteem or from threatened egotism?, R. F. Baumeister, B. J. Bushman and W. K. Campbell.

Thin-ideal internalization: Mounting evidence for a new risk factor for body-image disturbance and eating pathology, J.K. Thompson and E. Stice.

Behavior genetics: What’s new? What’s next?, D. M. Dick and R. J. Rose.

Human sexuality: How do men and women differ?, L. A. Peplau.

Will they do it again? Predicting sex-offense recidivism, R. K. Hanson.

Schizophrenia: A neurodevelopmental perspective, H. M. Conklin and W. G. Iacono.

Cognition in schizophrenia: Does working memory work?, D. M. Barch.

Cognitive activity and risk of Alzheimer’s disease, R. S. Wilson and D. A. Bennett.

CHILDHOOD DISORDERS, LIFE CYCLE TRANSITIONS, AND MENTAL HEALTH AND THE LAW

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults: Implications for theories of diagnosis, S. V. Faraone.

Marital conflict: Correlates, structure and context, F. Fincham.

Emotion in the Second Half of Life, L. L. Carstensen and S. T. Charles.

Psychology and aging: Enhancing the lives of an aging population, A. Fisk and W. Rogers.

A typology of men who are violent toward their female partners: Making sense of the heterogeneity in husband violence, A. Holtzworth-Munroe.

Violence against stepchildren, M. Daly and M. I. Wilson.