APA Research Databases

Mobile technology has revolutionized many industries, including media news, entertainment, and science research. We take a look at records from 2012 about mobile apps used in health care.

The digitally born generation may differ cognitively as well as culturally from preceding generations. Constant contact with others through social media may change how the experience time alone and the ways they think and make decisions.

A light-hearted summer article on how fascinating the names of some of the classic books articles are. Some are interesting for the topic, some are interesting for the timing, like a book on stock speculation written shortly before the 1929 stock market crash.

It can be a challenge to move psychology from the theoretical to the applied. Alan Kazdin's review of Psychology and the Real World: Essays Illustrating Fundamental Contributions to Society highlights practical applications that make our lives better.

Mobile technologies have created incredible changes in a short time, some good, some bad. We'll look at a few of these in the next few months. Today, we'll look at texting as a distraction.

Discuss peer review qualifications and the credentials of the PsycCRITIQUES peer reviewers by highlighting the reviewer biographies.

The variety of information in PsycBOOKS is part of its charm. This month we add works by Jane Addams, Joshua Slocum, and others, and note how Advice to the Married has changed in the past 100 years.

Part of the reason PsycEXTRA was created was to ensure that F.O.I.A. materials remain available if they are reclassified. We look at redacted material from the CIA on China, South Africa, the Soviet Union, and more.

Very few of us can taste the difference between really good wine and average wine. Even when people know that, they still buy more expensive wine. Our self-image is often dictated by others standards. What data on persuasion is there in the PsycCRITIQUES database?

The diabetes crisis has reached epidemic proportions, and obese children are a particular risk. It is affecting mental performance and creating a generation with a life expectancy shorter than their parents.

The Jukes study by Dugdale is a true landmark on the interaction of heredity and environment that was twisted to support the idea that some individuals, families, and groups are unfit by nature.

We have changed from a rural to an urban people. Though our cultural mythology celebrates rural and small town values, cities have their own positive ethos and hold the key to our future.

Nonverbal communication is said to make up well over half of the way we convey meaning. A look at recent sources in PsycCRITIQUES about body language or nonverbal communication.

At the holiday time, we look at a book in PsycBOOKS classic books on what makes Christmas wonderful to a child. Anticipation, wonder, and mystery are part of the package.

Content in the database relevant to economic and social inequality and the worldwide Occupy movement.