This book presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology research. Each paper has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum. Contents: Adolescent addiction and recovery: a study in extremes; Technological automation and the opinions we hold of ourselves and others; Reasons for retirement, Satisfaction with retirement and sources of enjoyment among retirees: an English-French comparison; The lifestyle perspective: theory, research and practice; Diving and cognitive performance: the selective impairment of control...

Vexing issues concerning internal and external change challenge Europe, it tries hard to regroup, reform and refocus. This series is intended to present an ongoing forum for substantiate discussion of these issues.

Contents: The Election Process in the United States; Campaign Financing in Federal Elections: A Guide to the Law and its Operation; Campaign Financing; Campaign Finance National Public Opinion; Campaign Finance: Constitutional and Legal Issues of Soft Money; Congressional and State Reappirtionment and Predistricting: A Legal Analysis; Free and Reduced-Rate Television Time for Political Candidates; Index.

Contents: Same profession, different career: A study of men and women in veterinary medicine; Acculturation, language use and Chinese delinquency: an examination of four theoretical models; The effects of frequency-of-occurrence and age-of-acquisition in word processing; Reading difficulties and event-related brain potentials; The relationship between the MBTI AND SII implications for conjunctive use in counselling; The stability and correlates of a negative coping self among adolescents; The role of older people in the self-regulation of interest; Subjectivity of sexuation process analysis...

Contents: Self-concept, weight issues and body image in children and adolescents; Psychological and socio-cultural correlates of eating disorders in the Mediterranean area; Effects of temperament on the development of externalizing and internalizing behaviors over 9 years; Internalizing values and virtues; Sex offending: a behavioral analysis perspective; Bullying amongst prisoners: a review of the interventions suggested by research; Classroom context and the development of aggression: the role of normative processes; Euthanasia; Reading difficulties and event-related brain potentials; The...

Contents: Two voices of fairness: applying Gilligan's model of voice to criminal sentencing; A new psychological conceptualisation of the sexual psychopath; Psychology as the study of mind and behavior: Two perspectives, one psychology; Family functioning and psychological well-being, school adjustment, and substance use in adolescents: are findings based on multiple studies consistent?; Interpreting the meaning of behaviour by people with intellectual disabilities; Need to evaluate and the big five factor model of personality; Whither automaticity and human performance; Abduction in...