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• For those who may be struggling to cope from afar or have trouble dealing the images of the aftermath of the tsunami, the American Psychological Association (APA) is offering free materials on managing traumatic stress in a natural disaster (Released from Practice Directorate) http://www.apa.org/releases/tsunami.html
  
   
• Rats can tell two languages apart from speech cues, sharing an ability with humans and monkeys (Promotes study from JEP: Animal Behavior Processes) http://www.apa.org/releases/speech.html
   
  
  
   
• Authors warn of inaccuracies and explore thorny issues concerning the use and measurement of race in health and social science research as more is learned about the human genome (Promotes special issue of American Psychologist) http://www.apa.org/releases/race.html
   
  
  
   
• Older people with the "Alzheimer's gene" find it harder to "remember to remember" even if they're healthy (Promotes study from Neuropsychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/alzheimersmemory.html
   
  
  
   
• The American Psychological Association (APA), in its ongoing efforts to help survivors of the tsunami in Southeast Asia announced today that psychologist Gerard Jacobs, PhD, of the University of South Dakota will work with APA to help the association craft a plan to assist in the mental health needs of the tsunami survivors http://www.apa.org/releases/jacobs.html
   
  
  
   
• Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge and research confirms how early-life events shape later physiology (Promotes study from Behavioral Neuroscience) http://www.apa.org/releases/earlylife.html
   
  
  
   
• Why do we overcommit? Study suggest we think we'll have more time in the future than we have today but poor forecasting is more evident for time than money (Promotes study from JEP: General) http://www.apa.org/releases/overcommit.html
   
  
  
   
• Do opposites attract or do birds of a feather flock together? New research involving newlyweds finds that what is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy (Promotes study from Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/attraction.html
   
  
  
   
• Psychiatric disorders greatly underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments and underdiagnosis contributes to needless emotional suffering, especially for minorities and the poor (Promotes study from Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/eddisparities.html
   
  
  
   
• Based on the research, comprehensive sex education is more effective at stopping the spread of HIV infection, says APA committee, and the research shows that abstinence-only programs have limited effectiveness and unintended consequences (Promotes APA policy statement on comprehensive sex education) http://www.apa.org/releases/sexeducation.html
   
  
  
   
• In monkeys, a spatial-memory gender gap closes with age and simple training brings young females up to speed (Promotes study from Behavioral Neuroscience) http://www.apa.org/releases/gendergap.html
   
  
  

   

• American Psychological Association announces plans for next phase of tsunami relief efforts. Second stage will focus on mental health needs of survivors http://www.apa.org/releases/tsunami_phase2.html
  
   
• APA Applauds congressional members for reintroducing federal legislation to address the tragedy of parental relinquishment of custody to obtain children's mental health services http://www.apa.org/releases/kftact.html
   
  
  
   
• Studies underscore genetic involvement in nicotine addiction and aggressive hostility. Two studies probe gene variations (Promotes two studies from Behavioral Neuroscience) http://www.apa.org/releases/gene_variations.html
   
  
  
   
• Low Socioeconomic status is a risk factor for mental illness, according to a statewide examination of psychiatric hospitalizations (Promotes study from American Journal of Orthopsychiatry) http://www.apa.org/releases/lowses.html
   
  
  
   
• News from APA's 2005 State Leadership Conference (Released from the Practice Directorate) http://www.apa.org/releases/slc05_homepage.html
   
  
  
   
• Brain imaging suggests how higher education helps to buffer older adults from cognitive declines. More years of education go with more frontal-lobe activity in older but not younger adults (Promotes study from Neuropsychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/education_aging.html
   
  
  
   
• APA raises privacy concerns on mental health records: Proposed nationwide system of electronic records requires managing many patient confidentiality issues (Released from the Practice Directorate) http://www.apa.org/releases/patientprivacy.html
   
  
  
   
• Many parents fail to set rules to limit children's exposure to tobacco smoke inside and outside the home. Secondhand tobacco smoke has been found to be particularly harmful to children's health (Promotes study from Family Systems and Health) http://www.apa.org/releases/tobaccorules.html
   
  
  
   
• Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls and a parent's weight may also play a role in adolescent weight gain (Promotes study from Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/teenobesity.html
   
  
  
   
• APA applauds new California regulations for inpatient psychological services (Released from the Practice Directorate) http://www.apa.org/releases/californiareg.html
   
  
  

   

• First-year college students who feel lonely have a weaker immune response to the flu shot. Loneliness and social network appear to make independent contributions to immunity (Promotes study from Health Psychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/loneliness.html
  
   
• Several years in small classes in elementary school yields big rewards at graduation time - especially for at-risk students (Promotes study from Journal of Educational Psychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/smallclasses.html
   
  
  
   
• Given misleading cues, older adults are more likely to "remember" that misinformation. Given a misleading cue, adults over age 64 were 10 times more likely than younger adults to falsely remember wrong as right (Promotes study from JEP: General) http://www.apa.org/releases/misinformation.html
   
  
  
   
• The anatomy of sarcasm: Researchers reveal how the brain handles this complex communication. Israeli psychologists draw conclusions from how brain-damaged people comprehend sarcasm - or not (Promotes study from Neuropsychology) http://www.apa.org/releases/sarcasm.html
   
  
  
   
• American Psychological Association applauds Senators Clinton and Collins and Representatives Kennedy and Ros-Lehtinen for introducing "The Positive Aging Act of 2005" http://www.apa.org/releases/positiveaging05.html
   
  
  
   
• APA condemns recent academic boycott adopted by the Association of University Teachers (APA responds to incident with statement) http://www.apa.org/releases/academicboycot.html Resources

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