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Misplaced Faith In Psychological Holiness: Murder, Suicide, Swiss Guards, And The Vatican, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some of the problems in employing psychological testing to decrease the probability of murder perpetrated by employees in the job environment.

Problems With The Psychopathy Construct, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights problems with the construct validity of psychopathy at the interface of clinical and social description.

The Politics Of Placebo, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores definitions of the construct placebo in a political context.

Trends. Causal Attributions And The Subversion Of Time: Would An Indictment Of The Israeli Foreign, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses the indictment of the Israeli Foreign Minister by the Israeli State Attorney on charges of fraud, bribery, and witness tampering.

Trends. Serbs And Kosovar Albanians: Birds Of A Feather, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses how Albanians and Serbs are alike in the throes of similarly deep and powerful psychological processes.

Trends. Pinning The Tail On The Donkey: A Legacy Of The Legacy Codes, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses a Taiwanese-born U.S. citizen that was alleged to have spied against the US and for the People's Republic of China.

Why Behavior Can't Be The Sole Arbiter Of Foreign Policy Goodness: The Ghosts In And Out Of The Machine And Yugoslavia, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights a common fallacy in the critique of foreign policy initiatives.

Trends. Tragedies Of School Shootings In The United States: A Matter Of Experts, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the opining of experts after the Columbine school shooting.

Plus Ca Change, Plus La Meme Chose: Online Communication As Still Offline, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article continues a series on the psychology of virtual reality (VR). As opposed to previous articles that focus on putative psychological consequences of VR technology (VRT), the present article posits that such consequences may be apocryphal.

Trends. A Profile Of Racial Profiles, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses profiling as an approach to prevent crime and to apprehend criminal perpetrators.

Mental Health As Global Health: A Joint World Health Organization-European Commission Initiative, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a current international mental health conference and a rationale for this conference.

Captive Psychologies: From The Experience Of The Speaker Of The Cypriot Parliament, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes inferred psychological attributions related to the recent attempt by the Speaker of the Cypriot Parliament to free three United States soldiers captured by supporters of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

Raping And Killing Versus Raping And Impregnating: An Atrocity Primer For Ethnic Cleansing In The Balkans, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes political psychological aspects of rape as a tool of ethnic cleansing. In the article, rape denotes only the forced sexual behavior by males against females.

Trends. The Politics Of Science And The Science Of Politics: Adult-Child Sex And Child Sexual Abuse, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the "A meta-analytic examination of assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples" that was published in the Psychological Bulletin.

Tb Or Not Tb: Disease And The Adaptiveness Of Political Borders, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes adaptive and nonadaptive aspects of political borders at the threshold of the 21st century.

The Chiquita Case: A Lot Of Banana Oil?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article focuses on an aspect of substantive law that may unnecessarily impede the social benefits derived from investigative reporting and protect transgressors of the social contract. The article stems from a legal case that originated from allegations by an investigative reporter about misbehavior on the part of Chiquita Brands International Inc. However, the article does not describe the allegations nor take a position on their validity.

From The Ibpp Research Associates. (1) Global Perspectives. (2) Slovenia., United Nations, Janez Kranjski

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The IBPP Research Associates column has two parts, both of which are included in the downloadable document.

The first part of the document forwards text from a World Health Organization document, taken from the United Nations Wire for April 8, 1999. It has been posted here as a contrast to the first Trend entry in this IBPP Issue. Two main issues - (1) Possible orthogonality of psychological from legal and moral standards and (2) the reliability and validity of different approaches within the clinical sciences to delineating psychopathology - are considered.

The second part of the document is an April …

Victimization As Causal Factor In Aggression: The Expected Consequences Of Nato Bombing, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the psychology of victimization as it impacts on North Atlantic Treaty Organization attempts to minimize aggression of the Yugoslavian and Serbian governments towards Kosovar Albanians.

Canada's "Respect Project" Poses Some Questions About Groups, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses Canada's online Respect Project is mainly concerned with ethical, logical, epistemological, social, and cultural topics. It aims at the integral respect of cultures and persons.

Trends. The Psychology Of War And Peace: Good And Bad Demons In Yugoslavia, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The articles discusses the affects of demonization and war.

Trends. Nato Attacks: A Can Do Attitude In A Can't Do World, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) attacks on Yugoslavian military assets.

The Politics Of Suicide, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article suggests that many aspects of the political life can be brought to light through an analysis of suicide.

Trends. Tortuous Reasoning On Torture: The Ocalan Case, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses a torture prevention group from the Council of Europe visiting the island of Imrali to inspect the conditions under which the Kurdish rebel leader (murderer and terrorist from a Turkish Government perspective) Abdullah Ocalan is being held.

Personnel Security: A Challenge For Social Science Methodologists, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article delineates three main failings of common approaches to personnel security programs--especially those program components dealings with violations of trust.

The Psychological Ground Rules For Counter-Interrogation, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes and critiques the common approaches to counter-interrogation.

Aborting The Pros And Cons Of Abortion: No Escaping The Killing Fields, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article critiques rationales of both opponents and supporters of intentionally aborting a human fetus. The critique has implications for arriving at legal, ethical, and moral judgments.

Trends. Fathers And Sons: The Future Of King Abdullah Ii, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the line of succession after the inevitable death of Jordan's King Hussein.

Trends. Malaysia And The Senate Trial Of President Clinton: Finally, The End: But To What End?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author takes a look at the ongoing trial in Malaysia of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

Biological Warfare As Psychological Warfare Ii, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

A previous IBPP article described a number of psychological warfare benefits of biological warfare. The present article discusses recent information reported in the Air Force Times within the context of these benefits.

Homosexuality And The United States Military: Problems With Sex Policies And Policies On Sex, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies and discusses some problems with current United States military personnel policies related to homosexuality.