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Three Approaches to Understanding and Classifying Mental Disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 18, Number 2 ) Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) When people go to a clinician for mental-health assistance, the diagnostic process can often seem quite straightforward: Patients discuss their symptoms, and the clinician then matches those symptoms to a disorder and devises a treatment. However, this simplified view of the diagnostic process belies the complexity inherent in understanding, classifying, and diagnosing psychiatric phenomena. In this issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 18, Issue 2) Lee Anna Clark, Bruce Cuthbert, Roberto Lewis-Fernández, William E. Narrow, and Geoffrey M.
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The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 18, Number 1) Read the Full Text (PDF & HTML) There has been a growing belief within the legal system that there is little to no relationship between the confidence with which an eyewitness identifies a person from a lineup and the accuracy of that identification. This view is not entirely surprising, given that traditionally used eyewitness-identification procedures often employ techniques that were not created or validated by the scientific community, and thus led to high-confidence -- but low-accuracy -- identifications.
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Do “Brain-Training” Programs Work?
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 17, Number 3) Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Feel like your concentration is slipping? Want to shore up your problem-solving skills? Interested in preventing general age-related cognitive decline? If this describes you, then the brain-training industry has a solution . . . or does it? The brain-training industry is a multibillion-dollar enterprise that has risen based on the promise that playing simple cognitive games can improve a wide variety of cognitive skills used in daily life. In the current issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 17, Number 3), psychological scientist Daniel J.
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Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 17, Number 2) Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Over the last 50 years, political rights for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals have significantly broadened in some countries, while they have narrowed in others. In many parts of the world, political and popular support for LGB rights hinges on questions about the prevalence, causes, and consequences of non-heterosexual orientations. In this report (Volume 17, Number 2), J.
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So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?
Psychological Science in the Public Interest (Volume 17, Number 1) Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) People are confronted with a vast amount of text on a daily basis. Between emails, textbooks, newspapers, and magazines – to name a few – is it any wonder that people are interested in learning how to improve their reading speed? This desire has led to the development of speed-reading courses and smartphone applications meant to help readers improve their reading pace. So what does science say about our ability to improve our reading speed? Are people able to vastly increase the number of words they read per minute?
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The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States
In the past several years, incidents between community members and the police have highlighted what many have been feeling for a long time–a lack of a sense of police legitimacy.
