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Friday Flashback for January 18, 2008

Hey, hey! Welcome to our first Friday Flashback on the new year! Never too late to celebrate is our motto, and celebrate we shall.

The Cause of Schizophrenia Remains Unclear

For all of the money, energy and focus that has gone into gene studies on schizophrenia, two findings this week call into question much of that effort.

When Stress Makes You Bitter: The Embitterment Disorder

Is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation A New Treatment Of Bulimia Nervosa?

A group of investigators of the Innsbruck University (Austria) reports on a new modality of treatment for bulimia nervosa, transcranial magnetic stimulation, in the 2008 January issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

Leading Psychiatric Medical Associations Call For Clinical Trials Registry

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) renewed their call for a mandatory public registry for clinical trials in light of a study that shows medical research is published selectively, effectively suppressing and misrepresenting studies deemed negative.

Career Profile - Industrial-organizational Psychology

Industrial-organizational psychology focuses on workplace behavior and is one of the fastest growing specialty areas in psychology.

Body of Evidence: Breathing Space

How respiration supports perspiration.

From Culture To Priming Conditions: Self-Construal Influences on Life Satisfaction Judgments

Existing cross-cultural research often assumes that the independent versus interdependent self-construal process leads to different cultural behaviors, although few studies directly test this link.

Intergroup Attributions and Ethnocentrism in the Indian Subcontinent: The Ultimate Attribution Error Revisited

Predictions of Pettigrew's ultimate attribution error were investigated among 148 Indians (91 Hindus and 57 Muslims) and 145 Pakistanis (107 Muslims and 38 Hindus) in the Indian subcontinent.

Mapping Expressive Differences Around the World: The Relationship Between Emotional Display Rules and Individualism Versus Collectivism

Despite the importance of the concept of cultural display rules in explaining cultural differences in emotional expression and despite the fact that it has been more than 30 years since this concept was coined, there is yet to be a study that surveys display rules across a wide range of cultures.