Category: Editorial

By Georg Lind University of Konstanz Two moral abilities are particularly important for living together in a democracy: firstly the ability of all citizens to judge and to act in accordance with their own moral principles; secondly, the ability to … Continue reading →

By Philip Zimbardo Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Can thoughts ignite revolutions? How can one person’s imagination empower millions to challenge tyranny and injustice in the name of freedom and democracy? In recent times, the world has been witnessing just such … Continue reading →

By Stephen Reicher University of St. Andrews Psychology — social psychology in particular, group psychology especially — needs to address both domination and resistance, stasis and movement, social reproduction and social change. Any approach which emphasizes the one to the … Continue reading →

By Vania Ranjbar The University of Edinburgh Looking back to the World War II activities, undertaken in the name of research, there is little room for doubt as to why we have Ethics Committees (ECs; or Institutional Review Boards, IRBs, … Continue reading →

By Michael J. Stevens Illinois State University Globalization can be characterized as a process of worldwide integration through the movement of goods and capital, expansion of democratic institutions and human rights, access to information, and migration of large numbers of … Continue reading →

Nicholas A. Kuiper Guest Editor, Special Humor Issue of EJOP University of Western Ontario Welcome to this special humor issue of Europe’s Journal of Psychology. This August 2010 EJOP issue is devoted to a presentation of contemporary psychological research on … Continue reading →

By Alex Gillespie Department of Psychology, University of Stirling Technology supporting the production of academic knowledge has come a long way and Europe’s Journal of Psychology is at the forefront of a new phase in the dissemination and discussion of … Continue reading →

By Tony Foster, M.Ed., L.P.C.- I Center Director, Amarillo Mental Health Consumers As I strolled through the vestibule of memories past, I witnessed the unfolding of hell’s fire. The caterwauling of the desperate and disarmed provided the shadowy overcast as … Continue reading →

By Michael L. Anderson Department of Psychology Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA 17604 and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Recent advances in theoretical cognitive science can be fruitfully characterized as part of … Continue reading →

By Fathali M. Moghaddam Georgetown University Some years ago I committed blatant heresy by publishing a book that questions one of the sacred beliefs of the modern world; namely, that specialization is necessarily beneficial. This belief has become sacred because … Continue reading →

By Cary L. Cooper, CBE Lancaster University Given the dramatic economic times we are all living in today, it is important, more than ever before, that the research we undertake in the field of psychology is of relevance to society. … Continue reading →

By Ana Moise, PhD Lecturer in Psychology, ANI I changed stress, stress changed me, you can not separate stress form life and you can not separate stress from me, because stress became life and by that stress has influenced all … Continue reading →

As in the previous decades it is with great hope that researchers in general and psychology researchers in particular turn to the study of creativity. The hope rests primarily in the enormous relevance of the topic for most segments of any society from scientists to practitioners, from politicians to artists, from teachers to economists, from specialists to lay people. Current changes at the macro level, challenges that threaten the economic stability of so many, wars that disrupt the lives of many others, all require solutions, transformations and innovation.
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Human beings were given many gifts when we were created, such as imagination, inventiveness, and reason, but I often think the greatest gift was a sense of humor. For it is our sense of humor that enables us to tolerate and, in a way, triumph over the terrible things that happen to all of us, from time to time, in the course of our lives. That is, mirthful humor has a remarkable therapeutic value that is connected to our survival, psychologically as well as physically. We now know that laughter leads to the release of endorphins and has physiological benefits of various kinds.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we could identify and help people at risk of serious mental health problems before the onset of illness? In fact the British Medical Journal has reported on President George W Bush’s proposal to screen the American population for mental illness (Lenzer, 2004).
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Have you ever lacked an explanation for why you thought or did something? Compelling findings from research conducted by social-cognitive psychologists suggests that human attitudes and behaviors sometimes occur implicitly. That is, they occur outside people’s awareness and control. For example, seeing an elderly person automatically elicits stereotypic attitudes (e.g., forgetfulness) and behaviors (e.g., slower motor movements) associated with old age (Bargh, Chen, & Burrows, 1996).
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One of the first assumptions any reader might have when first visiting the EJOP web-page is that of finding a journal focused on European psychological research. Since our first numbers we took pride in promoting European authors and in launching a special column, “Europe’s ImPulse”, dedicated to studies concerning the European Union or articles presenting mainly European psychological events. At the same time Europe’s Journal of Psychology has presented itself as a journal that is opened for both psychologists and psychology students worldwide, a journal that has an international Scientific Committee and Editorial Board formed by renowned professionals and researchers.
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The psychologists are talking every day about diversity and universality in psychology. Is diversity a hindrance or an element which helps the development of psychology?
But what is, in fact, the ideal of psychology? Psychology is a science who proposes to discover the entire human diversity and to integrate this diversity into its own methods. But for this, there must be founded the causes of these differences between human beings. And these causes derive not only from the differences between the singular identity of each human being, from the professional or social identity, but also from the cultural identity.
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“The difficult things of this world must once have been easy; the great things of this world must once have been small. Set about difficult things while they are still easy; do great things while they are still small. The Sage never affects to do anything great, and therefore he is able to achieve his great results.”
(The Sayings of Lao-Tzu, Lionel Giles translation [1905], Miscellaneous sayings and precepts)
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I remember one of my lecturers telling me a few years ago that psychology is different from sciences such as physics. Not just because of the ‘is psychology a science?’ debate. But more importantly, because the field of psychology is so diverse that psychologists working in different fields simply cannot properly understand one another.
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So, you’ve completed your research, you’ve written up your article and now you’re ready to submit it to a peer review journal. You send your manuscript to the editor of the journal, the editor forwards your manuscript for review to other scientists in your field, and, based on the feedback from reviewers, he/she decides whether your work will be published or not.
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Drew Weidenbacher at (360) 393-9266 or dweidenbacher@qwest.net; George Cvetkovich, (360) 650-3544, or George.Cvetkovich@wwu.edu May 23, 2006 BELLINGHAM – Using his own experience on Wall Street along with mentoring by one of the nation’s leading experts on “trust,” Western Washington University … Continue reading →

There is a passage in one of Coelhio’s books which says: “That which happens once, will happen again for sure…”. We do hope that this would also be true for EJOP.
We have already made one year of constant publishing to happen and we wish this to be only the beginning of a long success story.
Looking back on our activity, we can find plenty of reasons to rejoice, but also many occasions to envisage ways to embetter what at first looked like an almost impossible project.
2005 was a prolific year for our small team of editors from Bucharest. In February we launched Europe’s Journal of Psychology in the city of contrasts, formerly known in the interwar period as “The Little Paris”.
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“Research is unethical if it is without scientific merit… student projects do not usually have this potential” (Doyal 2004, section 4.1).
The above quote sounds as if it has come straight from Heller’s Catch 22, but is in fact from the official draft proposal for guidelines on the regulation of student projects in Britain. You have just entered the crazy world of medical ethics in the UK. If you think this doesn’t apply to you because you are a cognitive psychologist & don’t intend to set foot in a hospital until you are ill, you might be shocked. And if you should find yourself ever daring approach a hospital patient, hospital staff, or even setting foot on hospital grounds with a questionnaire, read on and pay close attention.
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These characteristics are embedded in the Maltese Cross, a symbol worn by fire-fighters, specifically in the United States. Fire-fighters hold a particular status and earn respect because they demonstrate these characteristics each day protecting the community. In some places these men and women are under attack.
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Our World is engulfed in violence. Crime rates seem to increase yearly, and violence, from terrorism to domestic abuse, is present everywhere. In the midst of the wave of terrorism, crime, and hate that we are experiencing internationally, some psychologists cannot help but wonder: how can we make a difference? In the light of this question, I would like to accept the invitation to write an editorial for EJOP
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Apart from the great pleasure we find in introducing to you this second issue of EJOP, we are also in the position of presenting you with a “new” journal; although the name is still the same, the contents and the … Continue reading →

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When I was first asked to write this editorial on occupational psychology from an international perspective, my first thoughts were why ask me? I thought surely there are better qualified people to write on this topic (and there most definitely are), but as I looked over my laptop and towards the lounge of yet another international airport it dawned on me that whilst I cannot offer a definitive academic account, I can attempt to share some of my observations as a practitioner. It is in this vein I would like to share my thoughts with learned colleagues.
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I had great difficulty in starting this article and convening with myself on its due content; and I can say that I have not yet come to a satisfying answer. The dilemma was mainly between whether I should bore you with or try to raise your interests in our frustrations, for, as you can easily imagine, such a pursuit as the one of making up a scientific psychological journal intended for the whole European research area cannot stem up but from some great disappointment;
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The initiative of launching an electronic journal of psychology may seem rather eccentric in today’s Eastern Europe where economic and political priorities tend to animate both the academic “arena” and the cyberspace. Whether there is a need for such a product or not on the European free market of ideas, time will probably decide.
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To be or not to be a psychologist? This is the question, or, in other words, “who isn’t a psychologist nowadays”? Not very far can we find that, from the magazines filled with “tests”, that we like to read, the “practical” books full of good intentions and advices about how to live our lives, the news that make a “fashion” out of psychological portraits, and up to the discussions made with a lot of psychological delicacy by our parents at home, every setting, every space and each one of our contacts “suffers” the influence of psychology (as science, as art, as hobby, or – and this is the worse possible thing – as amusement).
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