Annual Editions : Personal Growth and Behavior 04/05

by Duffy, Karen G.

• ISBN13: 9780073079066
• ISBN10: 0073079065
• Edition: 24th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Summary

This annually updated reader is a compilation of articles from current magazines, newspapers, and journals such as Psychology Today, The Independent and Psychological Science. The issues discuss topics such as the science of psychology; emotion and motivation and development. This title is supported by our student Web site Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/).

Table of Contents

To the Reader	iv
Topic Guide	xi
Selected World Wide Web Sites	xiv
UNIT 1 Becoming a Person: Foundations
Unit Overview	xvi
The Identity Question: What Makes You You?	2	(2)
Melissa Abramovitz
What Freud Got Right	4	(2)
Fred Guterl
Skepticism of Caricatures: B.F. Skinner Turns 100	6	(4)
Scott Gaynor
Past, Present, or Future? Which Type Are You?	10	(4)
Raj Persaud
UNIT 2 Determinants of Behavior: Motivation, Environment, and Physiology
Unit Overview	12	(2)
What Makes You Who You Are	14	(6)
Matt Ridley
The Tangled Skeins of Nature and Nurture in Human Evolution	20	(7)
Paul R. Ehrlich
Nature vs. Nurture: Two Brothers With Schizophrenia	27	(5)
Norman L. Keltner
The Blank Slate	32	(5)
Steven Pinker
Where We Come From	37	(4)
Nancy Shute
The Mutable Brain	41	(6)
Marguerite Holloway
The Truth about Guys and Girls: Is It in Your Head?	47	(4)
Kathiann M. Kowalski
Resolved: No More Dumb Resolutions	51	(3)
Jennifer Huget
Stand and Deliver	54	(4)
Maia Szalavitz
UNIT 3 Problems Influencing Personal Growth
Unit Overview	56	(2)
The Biology of Aging	58	(3)
Geoffrey Cowley
Four Things You Need to Know About Raising Baby	61	(3)
Joanna Lipari
Childhood Is for Children	64	(2)
Johann Christoph Arnold
Parenting: The Lost Art	66	(5)
Kay S. Hymowitz
What American Schools Can Learn from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry	71	(4)
Margaret Zoller Booth
Grace Marie Booth
What Parents Don't Know (Or Won't Admit)	75	(4)
Sharon Doyle Driedger
Understanding the Predictors of Violent Adolecent Behavior	79	(3)
Antonius H. N. Cillessen
Staving Off Middle-Age Spread Requires Portion Control and Plenty of Exercise	82	(3)
Jill Wendholt Silva
The Funmasters	85	(3)
Priscilla Grant
Staying Alive	88	(5)
Karen Wright
Start the Conversation	93	(10)
UNIT 4 Relating to Others
Unit Overview	100	(3)
Got Time for Friends?	103	(3)
Andy Steiner
What's Your Emotional IQ?	106	(3)
Melissa Abramovitz
Nurturing Empathy	109	(4)
Julia Glass
Reading Faces	113	(5)
Richard Conniff
How to Spot a Liar	118	(3)
James Geary
Shy Squared	121	(2)
Karen Goldberg Goff
Calling It Off	123	(3)
Pamela Paul
American Families Are Drifting Apart	126	(3)
Barbara LeBey
Forgiveness: Who Does It and How Do They Do It?	129	(7)
Michael E. McCullough
UNIT 5 Dynamics of Personal Adjustment: The Individual and Society
Unit Overview	134	(2)
The Betrayal of the American Man	136	(9)
Susan Faludi
Suspicious Minds: Too Much Trust Can Actually Be a Bad Thing---A Polity of Suckers Is No Better Than a Nation of Cynics	145	(3)
Jedediah Purdy
Nobody Left to Hate	148	(5)
Elliot Aronson
Fiftieth Anniversary: Brown vs. Board of Education	153	(8)
Brian Willoughby
The Social Net	161	(4)
Bruce Bower
How to Multitask	165	(2)
Catherine Bush
Work, Work, Work, Work!	167	(4)
Mark Hunter
The Difficult Task of Defining and Understanding Terrorism	171	(2)
Naji Abi-Hashem
The Collateral Psychological Damage of War	173	(5)
Ralph Hyatt
UNIT 6 Enhancing Human Adjustment: Learning to Cope Effectively
Unit Overview	176	(2)
Are We Becoming a Nation of Depressives?	178	(6)
Kevin Turnquist
Dear Reader: Get a Life	184	(5)
Pamela Paul
The 10 Rules of Change	189	(4)
Stan Goldberg
Glossary	193	(10)
Index	203	(3)
Test Your Knowledge Form	206	(1)
Article Rating Form	207