School psychologists spend a great deal of time translating assessment results into a psychoeducational report. The importance of creating reports that are both useful and understandable to the readers of the report while also being efficient for the school psychologist cannot be overstated. This study examines parent and teacher perceptions…

Many studies have found benefits of positive psychological interventions, such as gratitude promotion or thinking about best possible selves, for adolescents and adults. Almost no research, however, has been conducted on the efficacy of such interventions for children. The authors' primary goal was to compare the outcomes of gratitude promotion…

In June 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that video games enjoy full free speech protections and that the regulation of violent game sales to minors is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court also referred to psychological research on violent video games as "unpersuasive" and noted that such research contains many methodological flaws.…

American functionalist psychology constituted an effort to model scientific psychology on the successes of English evolutionary theory. In part it was a response to the stagnation of Wundt's psychological research program, which had been grounded in German experimental physiology. In part it was an attempt to make psychology more appealing within…

As a result of eight years' experience of Piagetian research and subsequent work as a practicing psychologist, certain aspects of Piaget's theories are criticized. In particular the existential status of operatory structures, the relation between logicality and understanding, and the representativeness of the tasks are questioned. (Editor)

Author argues that Piaget's employment of the concept of causality is inconsistent or, at best, confused, and it excludes many relations commonly claimed to be causal relations. (Author/CB)

The Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was administered to 103 children from seven kibbutzim under frequent shelling and 90 children from seven kibbutzim that were never under fire. Contrary to the hypotheses that the children from the bombarded kibbutzim would have a higher level of anxiety than those from the nonbombarded ones, no significant…

Describes the theory and practice of family-centered child psychology, a philosophy of treatment that views the child in the context of family and community and attempts to engage the family in the therapeutic process. Graduate-level training and research issues in this model are discussed. (DM)

Over the last century, investigation of pretend companions has developed as an emerging field. Although pretend companions are a commonplace childhood phenomenon and perhaps an epitome of children's imagination, that topic received little attention before the end of the 19th century. Only since the last decade has attention to it truly begun to…

The objective of this investigation was two-fold; to examine systematically the importance of visual-holding cues during inter-response intervals, and to monitor concurrent visual behavior in an operant learning situation which incorporated a spatially displaced feedback locus. (Author)

This research points the way toward a more complete functional analysis of aggression in children's social interaction. (Author)

Two experiments investigated characteristic generalized imitation procedures on a nonimitative successive visual discrimination task. (Editor)

Hooper's finding that identity conservation develops prior to equivalence conservation was investigated using a more stringent within-subject design. (Editor)