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TARGET ARTICLE
Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication
Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

COMMENTARIES
Toward Open Behavioral Science
Karen E. Adolph et al.

Does Open Scientific Communication Increase the Quality of Knowledge?
Jens B. Asendorpf

A Librarian's Defense of the Practicable Over the Perfect in Scholarly Communication
Jill Cirasella

Missteps on the Road to Scientific Utopia
Joel Cooper

Improving Science by Improving Scientific Communication: The View From the APA Publications and Communications Board
Jennifer Crocker

What Do We Really Want?
David Dunning

Seeking the Road to Utopia
Paul Fendley

Will We March to Utopia, or Be Dragged There? Past Failures and Future Hopes for Publishing Our Science
Roger Giner-Sorolla

Scientific Communication Is Down at the Moment, Please Check Again Later
John P. A. Ioannidis

Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds in a Data-Rich Utopia
Ravi Iyer & Jesse Graham

A Dinosaur Comments on the Coming Apocalypse: Does Anybody Else See That Asteroid?
Laura A. King

Scientific Utopia or Scientific Dystopia?
Scott O. Lilienfeld

Modernizing Science
Benjamin W. Mooneyham et al.

Cheaper and Better: Why Scientific Advancement Demands the Move to Open Access Publishing
Don A. Moore & Elizabeth R. Tenney

Scientific Utopia: That Which Cannot Exist?
Alison Mudditt & Michael A. Hogg

Let's Publish Fewer Papers
Leif D. Nelson et al.

Let's Try and Fix the Current Publishing System Before Making Dramatic Changes
Richard E. Petty

The Future of Scientific Publication in Psychology: Utopias and Dystopias
Harry T. Reis

How Should We Manage Peer Review and Why?
Rebecca Saxe

Scientific Utopia … or Too Much Information?
Barbara A. Spellman

Beginning at Nosek and Bar-Anan's End: Let's Put Open Evaluation First
Tal Yarkoni

REPLY
Scientific Communication Is Changing and Scientists Should Lead the Way
Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

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The use of harsh discipline of unwanted behaviour in children has long been controversial. Whether verbal (insults, disparaging remarks, threats) or physical (slapping/spanking), harsh discipline at all stages of childhood carries a large risk of manifesting antisocial ‘externalising behaviours’ in the child, including aggression, delinquency or hyperactivity.

But a new study published in the journal Parenting: Science and Practice suggests that these painful effects of harsh discipline can be moderated by the child’s feelings of being loved by their mother.

The study, conducted among a group of Mexican-American adolescents by Dr Miguelina Germán of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, found that having a loving mother (or ‘perception of maternal warmth’) protected the youngster from externalizing problems to the extent that, at high levels of maternal warmth, harsh discipline was found to have no correlation with antisocial behaviour.

Where the child’s perception of maternal warmth was lower, it still resulted in a positive relationship between harsh disciplinary practices and later externalising problems.

This would suggest that, as long as the child knows they’re loved, and feels that it is coming from a good place, their experiences of being strictly disciplined is unlikely to result in antisocial behaviour further down the line.

Some evidence suggests that Latino cultural norms – such as respeto (respect) and bien educacion (social responsibility) - support the use of harsh and restrictive discipline against children. Attachment theory holds that warm, responsive parenting is the critical factor in producing happy, secure children – the underlying belief that their parents love them protects them from feeling rejected, even when being harshly disciplined.

One important implication of the research is perhaps the following: the use of harsh parental discipline does not automatically result in antisocial behaviour in the child. The relationship between the two is conditional and subject to other factors. Where harsh disciplinary practices are a cultural norm, there are always other influences at play that can lessen their potential harm on the young child.

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Dr. Wang will be presented with a formal personalized award citation along with a $1,000 prize to be shared with Dr. Andres De Los Reyes of the University of Maryland at the APA Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 31-August 4, 2013. An announcement of all APA award recipients will also be printed in the May 2013 APA Monitor.

We congratulate Dr.Wang on this great honor!

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Plans, norms, motivation, and cheating a little: The curious case of healthy eating

Volume 27, Supplement 2, 2012

A whole new area of psychological research on eating behaviour is emerging, investigating how normal people with normal weights (or slight overweight) watch their eating behaviour because they want to avoid getting fat. It is this area of psychological eating research that is prominently present in this themed issued of Psychology & Health, presenting a series of articles that examine how normal people deal with food issues in an attempt to unravel the psychological processes that predict failure and success in doing so.

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We are celebrating the latest Impact Factor News from our Health Psychology Journals. Health Psychology Review and Psychology, Health & Medicine have received their first Impact Factors and Psychology & Health’s Impact Factor has reached an all-time high.*

Click the links below to read a recent highly-cited article from each journal:

Health Psychology Review: 2011 Impact Factor 2.062*
Prospective prediction of health-related behaviours with the Theory of Planned Behaviour: a meta-analysis

Psychology & Health: 2011 Impact Factor 2.126*
Emotional eating: Eating when emotional or emotional about eating?

Psychology, Health & Medicine: 2011 Impact Factor 1.178*
Understanding early-onset drug and alcohol outcomes among youth: The role of family structure, social factors, and interpersonal perceptions of use

*©2012 Thomson Reuters, 2011 Journal Citation Reports®