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Rants and Raves

 

Herewith, occasional and largely informal commentary on issues relating to psychology as a discipline and a profession, including mental-health policy issues.

 

 

Mental Health Parity

Link to a letter to the editor published in the New York Times (December 15, 2001), and expanded commentary.

 

Truth Serum

Link to a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal (submitted June 20, 2002).

 

On Changing the Name of the American Psychological Society

A very ill-conceived idea.

 

Great Books in Psychology

On January 13, 2005, I circulated the following message to three listservs: the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, inviting listmembers to contribute short lists of fondly remembered, perhaps life- or career-changing textbooks, read either as undergraduates or graduate students, along with a sentence or two about the effect they had on them.  Link to the results of the poll.

 

Social Neuroscience

Does Neuroscience Constrain Social-Psychological Theory?  Link to an invited commentary published in Dialogue, the newsletter of SPSP (2006).

 

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