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e area of applied psychological research"), 1997 Oklahoma Scholar Leadership Enrichment Program Scholar 2001 Association for Psychological Science, William James Fellow Award, 2001 ("For significant lifetime intellectual contributions to the basic science of psychology.") Quad L Award (for "outstanding life-

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are beneficial, for what individuals and in what contexts, and through what specific mechanisms. Recent research has made it patently clear that William James (1890, p. 442, 2) underestimated the faculties of human infants when he suggested that their first sensory experiences were a "blooming, buzzing

(2005). Social exclusion impairs self-regulation. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 88, 589-604; Twenge, J.M., Baumeister, R. F., Tice, D. M., & Stucke, T. S. (2001). If you can't join them, beat them: Effects of social exclusion on aggressive behavior. Journal of Personality & Social

ces are beneficial, for what individuals and in what contexts, and through what specific mechanisms. Recent research has made it patently clear that William James (1890, p. 442, 2) underestimated the faculties of human infants when he suggested that their first sensory experiences were a “blooming, buzzing conf

M. (2005). Social exclusion impairs self-regulation. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 88, 589-604; Twenge, J.M., Baumeister, R. F., Tice, D. M., & Stucke, T. S. (2001). If you can't join them, beat them: Effects of social exclusion on aggressive behavior. Journal of Personality & Social Psych

Unfortunately, there are no clear categories, no bright lines separating normal from abnormal or uncommon. As the distinguished American psychologist William James noted, however, studying “the abnormal is the best way to understand the normal.” Let’s follow this logic. Consider the developmental disorder of au

, The Social Psychology of Morality, pp. 109-128, Washington ,American Psychological Association; Gray, K., Jenkins, A., Heberlein, A. S., & Wegener, D. M. (2011). Distortions of mind perception in psychopathology. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108: 477-479; Haslam, N., Bastian, B.,