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• Basic / Experimental Psychology
• Clinical Psychology
• Core of Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Educational Psychology, School Psychology, and Training
• Forensic Psychology
• Health Psychology & Medicine
• Industrial / Organizational Psychology & Management
• Neuroscience & Cognition
• Social Psychology & Social Processes

Basic / Experimental Psychology

• Moving While Black: Intergroup Attitudes Influence Judgments of Speed (PDF, 71KB)
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  February 2016
  by Andreana C. Kenrick, Stacey Sinclair, Jennifer Richeson, Sara C. Verosky, and Janetta Lun
• Recognition Without Awareness: Encoding and Retrieval Factors (PDF, 116KB)
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
  September 2015
  by Fergus I. M. Craik, Nathan S. Rose, and Nigel Gopie
• The Tip-of-the-Tongue Heuristic: How Tip-of-the-Tongue States Confer Perceptibility on Inaccessible Words (PDF, 91KB)
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
  September 2015
  by Anne M. Cleary and Alexander B. Claxton
• Cognitive Processes in the Breakfast Task: Planning and Monitoring (PDF, 146KB)
  Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  September 2015
  by Nathan S. Rose, Lin Luo, Ellen Bialystok, Alexandra Hering, Karen Lau, and Fergus I. M. Craik
• Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge (PDF, 138KB)
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  June 2015
  by Matthew Fisher, Mariel K. Goddu, and Frank C. Keil

Clinical Psychology

• Client Perceptions of Corrective Experiences in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: An Exploratory Pilot Study (PDF, 62KB)
  Journal of Psychotherapy Integration
  March 2017
  by Jasmine Khattra, Lynne Angus, Henny Westra, Christianne Macaulay, Kathrin Moertl, and Michael Constantino
• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Developmental Trajectories Related to Parental Expressed Emotion (PDF, 160KB)
  Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  February 2016
  by Erica D. Musser, Sarah L. Karalunas, Nathan Dieckmann, Tara S. Peris, and Joel T. Nigg
• The Integrated Scientist-Practitioner: A New Model for Combining Research and Clinical Practice in Fee-For-Service Settings (PDF, 58KB)
  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
  December 2015
  by Jenna T. LeJeune and Jason B. Luoma
• Psychotherapists as Gatekeepers: An Evidence-Based Case Study Highlighting the Role and Process of Letter Writing for Transgender Clients (PDF, 76KB)
  Psychotherapy
  September 2015
  by Stephanie L. Budge
• Perspectives of Family and Veterans on Family Programs to Support Reintegration of Returning Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PDF, 70KB)
  Psychological Services
  August 2015
  by Ellen P. Fischer, Michelle D. Sherman, Jean C. McSweeney, Jeffrey M. Pyne, Richard R. Owen, and Lisa B. Dixon
• "So What Are You?": Inappropriate Interview Questions for Psychology Doctoral and Internship Applicants (PDF, 79KB)
  Training and Education in Professional Psychology
  May 2015
  by Mike C. Parent, Dana A. Weiser, and Andrea McCourt
• Cultural Competence as a Core Emphasis of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (PDF, 81KB)
  Psychoanalytic Psychology
  April 2015
  by Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
• The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual Well-Being in Asymptomatic Heart Failure Patients (PDF, 123KB)
  Spirituality in Clinical Practice
  March 2015
  by Paul J. Mills, Laura Redwine, Kathleen Wilson, Meredith A. Pung, Kelly Chinh, Barry H. Greenberg, Ottar Lunde, Alan Maisel, Ajit Raisinghani, Alex Wood, and Deepak Chopra

Core of Psychology

• Nepali Bhutanese Refugees Reap Support Through Community Gardening (PDF, 104KB)
  International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation
  January 2017
  by Monica M. Gerber, Jennifer L. Callahan, Danielle N. Moyer, Melissa L. Connally, Pamela M. Holtz, and Beth M. Janis
• Does Monitoring Goal Progress Promote Goal Attainment? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence (PDF, 384KB)
  Psychological Bulletin
  February 2016
  by Benjamin Harkin, Thomas L. Webb, Betty P. I. Chang, Andrew Prestwich, Mark Conner, Ian Kellar, Yael Benn, and Paschal Sheeran
• Youth Violence: What We Know and What We Need to Know (PDF, 388KB)
  American Psychologist
  January 2016
  by Brad J. Bushman, Katherine Newman, Sandra L. Calvert, Geraldine Downey, Mark Dredze, Michael Gottfredson, Nina G. Jablonski, Ann S. Masten, Calvin Morrill, Daniel B. Neill, Daniel Romer, and Daniel W. Webster
• Supervenience and Psychiatry: Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? (PDF, 113KB)
  Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
  November 2015
  by Charles M. Olbert and Gary J. Gala
• Constructing Psychological Objects: The Rhetoric of Constructs (PDF, 108KB)
  Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
  November 2015
  by Kathleen L. Slaney and Donald A. Garcia
• Expanding Opportunities for Diversity in Positive Psychology: An Examination of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity (PDF, 119KB)
  Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne
  August 2015
  by Meghana A. Rao and Stewart I. Donaldson
• Racial Microaggression Experiences and Coping Strategies of Black Women in Corporate Leadership (PDF, 132KB)
  Qualitative Psychology
  August 2015
  by Aisha M. B. Holder, Margo A. Jackson, and Joseph G. Ponterotto
• An Appraisal Theory of Empathy and Other Vicarious Emotional Experiences (PDF, 151KB)
  Psychological Review
  July 2015
  by Joshua D. Wondra and Phoebe C. Ellsworth
• An Attachment Theoretical Framework for Personality Disorders (PDF, 100KB)
  Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne
  May 2015
  by Kenneth N. Levy, Benjamin N. Johnson, Tracy L. Clouthier, J. Wesley Scala, and Christina M. Temes
• Emerging Approaches to the Conceptualization and Treatment of Personality Disorder (PDF, 111KB)
  Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne
  May 2015
  by John F. Clarkin, Kevin B. Meehan, and Mark F. Lenzenweger
• A Complementary Processes Account of the Development of Childhood Amnesia and a Personal Past (PDF, 585KB)
  Psychological Review
  April 2015
  by Patricia J. Bauer

Developmental Psychology

• Terminal Decline in Well-Being: The Role of Social Orientation (PDF, 238KB)
  Psychology and Aging
  March 2016
  by Denis Gerstorf, Christiane A. Hoppmann, Corinna E. Löckenhoff, Frank J. Infurna, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner, and Nilam Ram

Educational Psychology, School Psychology, and Training

• Student Threat Assessment as a Standard School Safety Practice: Results From a Statewide Implementation Study (PDF, 97KB)
  School Psychology Quarterly
  June 2018
  by Dewey Cornell, Jennifer L. Maeng, Anna Grace Burnette, Yuane Jia, Francis Huang, Timothy Konold, Pooja Datta, Marisa Malone, and Patrick Meyer
• Can a Learner-Centered Syllabus Change Students’ Perceptions of Student–Professor Rapport and Master Teacher Behaviors? (PDF, 90KB)
  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
  September 2016
  by Aaron S. Richmond, Jeanne M. Slattery, Nathanael Mitchell, Robin K. Morgan, and Jared Becknell
• Adolescents' Homework Performance in Mathematics and Science: Personal Factors and Teaching Practices (PDF, 170KB)
  Journal of Educational Psychology
  November 2015
  by Rubén Fernández-Alonso, Javier Suárez-Álvarez, and José Muñiz
• Teacher-Ready Research Review: Clickers (PDF, 55KB)
  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
  September 2015
  by R. Eric Landrum
• Enhancing Attention and Memory During Video-Recorded Lectures (PDF, 83KB)
  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology
  March 2015
  by Daniel L. Schacter and Karl K. Szpunar

Forensic Psychology

• The Alleged "Ferguson Effect" and Police Willingness to Engage in Community Partnership (PDF, 70KB)
  Law and Human Behavior
  February 2016
  by Scott E. Wolfe and Justin Nix

Health Psychology & Medicine

• Randomized Controlled Trial of an Internet Cognitive Behavioral Skills-Based Program for Auditory Hallucinations in Persons With Psychosis (PDF, 92KB)
  Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
  September 2017
  by Jennifer D. Gottlieb, Vasudha Gidugu, Mihoko Maru, Miriam C. Tepper, Matthew J. Davis, Jennifer Greenwold, Ruth A. Barron, Brian P. Chiko, and Kim T. Mueser
• Preventing Unemployment and Disability Benefit Receipt Among People With Mental Illness: Evidence Review and Policy Significance (PDF, 134KB)
  Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
  June 2017
  by Bonnie O'Day, Rebecca Kleinman, Benjamin Fischer, Eric Morris, and Crystal Blyler
• Sending Your Grandparents to University Increases Cognitive Reserve: The Tasmanian Healthy Brain Project (PDF, 88KB)
  Neuropsychology
  July 2016
  by Megan E. Lenehan, Mathew J. Summers, Nichole L. Saunders, Jeffery J. Summers, David D. Ward, Karen Ritchie, and James C. Vickers
• The Foundational Principles as Psychological Lodestars: Theoretical Inspiration and Empirical Direction in Rehabilitation Psychology (PDF, 68KB)
  Rehabilitation Psychology
  February 2016
  by Dana S. Dunn, Dawn M. Ehde, and Stephen T. Wegener
• Feeling Older and Risk of Hospitalization: Evidence From Three Longitudinal Cohorts (PDF, 55KB)
  Health Psychology
  Online First Publication — February 11, 2016
  by Yannick Stephan, Angelina R. Sutin, and Antonio Terracciano
• Anger Intensification With Combat-Related PTSD and Depression Comorbidity (PDF, 81KB)
  Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
  January 2016
  by Oscar I. Gonzalez, Raymond W. Novaco, Mark A. Reger, and Gregory A. Gahm
• Special Issue on eHealth and mHealth: Challenges and Future Directions for Assessment, Treatment, and Dissemination (PDF, 32KB)
  Health Psychology
  December 2015
  by Belinda Borrelli and Lee M. Ritterband
• Posttraumatic Growth Among Combat Veterans: A Proposed Developmental Pathway (PDF, 110KB)
  Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
  July 2015
  by Sylvia Marotta-Walters, Jaehwa Choi, and Megan Doughty Shaine
• Racial and Sexual Minority Women's Receipt of Medical Assistance to Become Pregnant (PDF, 111KB)
  Health Psychology
  June 2015
  by Bernadette V. Blanchfield and Charlotte J. Patterson

Industrial / Organizational Psychology & Management

• An Examination of Generational Stereotypes as a Path Towards Reverse Ageism (PDF, 205KB)
  The Psychologist-Manager Journal
  August 2017
  By Michelle Raymer, Marissa Reed, Melissa Spiegel, and Radostina K. Purvanova
• Sexual Harassment: Have We Made Any Progress? (PDF, 121KB)
  Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  July 2017
  By James Campbell Quick and M. Ann McFadyen
• Multidimensional Suicide Inventory-28 (MSI-28) Within a Sample of Military Basic Trainees: An Examination of Psychometric Properties (PDF, 79KB)
  Military Psychology
  November 2015
  By Serena Bezdjian, Danielle Burchett, Kristin G. Schneider, Monty T. Baker, and Howard N. Garb
• Cross-Cultural Competence: The Role of Emotion Regulation Ability and Optimism (PDF, 100KB)
  Military Psychology
  September 2015
  By Bianca C. Trejo, Erin M. Richard, Marinus van Driel, and Daniel P. McDonald

Neuroscience & Cognition

• The Effects of Stress on Prospective Memory: A Systematic Review (PDF, 149KB)
  Psychology & Neuroscience
  September 2017
  by Martina Piefke and Katharina Glienke

Social Psychology & Social Processes

• Don't Aim Too High for Your Kids: Parental Overaspiration Undermines Students' Learning in Mathematics (PDF, 164KB)
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  November 2016
  by Kou Murayama, Reinhard Pekrun, Masayuki Suzuki, Herbert W. Marsh, and Stephanie Lichtenfeld
• Sex Differences in Sports Interest and Motivation: An Evolutionary Perspective (PDF, 155KB)
  Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
  April 2016
  by Robert O. Deaner, Shea M. Balish, and Michael P. Lombardo
• Asian Indian International Students' Trajectories of Depression, Acculturation, and Enculturation (PDF, 210KB)
  Asian American Journal of Psychology
  March 2016
  By Dhara T. Meghani and Elizabeth A. Harvey
• Cynical Beliefs About Human Nature and Income: Longitudinal and Cross-Cultural Analyses (PDF, 163KB)
  January 2016
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  by Olga Stavrova and Daniel Ehlebracht
• Annual Review of Asian American Psychology, 2014 (PDF, 384KB)
  Asian American Journal of Psychology
  December 2015
  By Su Yeong Kim, Yishan Shen, Yang Hou, Kelsey E. Tilton, Linda Juang, and Yijie Wang
• Resilience in the Study of Minority Stress and Health of Sexual and Gender Minorities (PDF, 40KB)
  Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
  September 2015
  by Ilan H. Meyer
• Self-Reported Psychopathy and Its Association With Criminal Cognition and Antisocial Behavior in a Sample of University Undergraduates (PDF, 91KB)
  Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement
  July 2015
  by Samantha J. Riopka, Richard B. A. Coupland, and Mark E. Olver