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Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.
Articles, News, Promotions and Updates from Routledge and the Taylor & Francis Group.

In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
Click here to read the FREE Special Issue in full.

Our outstanding journal Basic & Applied Social Psychology is seeking a new Editor. Do you know the right person? Is it YOU?

Michael E. Lamb has won the 2014 G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology and the 2013 Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology and Law, from the American Psychology-Law Society.
For more on the award, click here.
For a full listing of Michael E. Lamb's publications with Routledge/Psychology Press, click here.

Professor Catriona Macleod has been named the winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012.

A new study of Mexican-American adolescents from our journal Parenting; Science and Practice reports that a loving mother can ameliorate many of the psychological harms associated with an otherwise harsh disciplinary upbringing.

Psychology & Sexuality has published a special thematic issue dedicated to asexuality. This issue represents a significant contribution to understanding asexuality by bringing together a range of papers that use a variety of methodological approaches.

In Trauma and the Soul, Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book, The Inner World of Trauma (1996)—this time going further into the mystical or spiritual moments that oftentimes occur around the intimacies of psychoanalytic work. Through extended clinical vignettes, including therapeutic dialog and dreams, he shows how depth psychotherapy with trauma’s survivors can open both analytic partners to "another world" of non-ordinary reality in which daimonic powers reside, both light and dark.

Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.
"In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption, "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."
Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology has been accepted into the Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index® and will receive its first Impact Factor in 2014.
Read a selection of free hot topic articles from the journal.

Read on to learn more about the authors of the recently published Heroic Leadership!