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VOLUME 3, ISSUE 4 PSYCHNEWS INTERNATIONAL December 1998
-- AN ONLINE PUBLICATION --
ISSN 1366-9869
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section A: INDEX AND PSYCHNEWS INFORMATION
Section B: INVITED EDITORIAL
"APA Enters Electronic Publishing"
by Martin E. P. Seligman
Section C: NEWS SECTION SURVEY
"Contemplating Moral Responsibility"
by Donald P. Corriveau
Section D: FEATURE ARTICLE
"A Slice of Media Psychology:
On Impeachment, the Media, and Polling"
by John M. Grohol
Section E: ARTICLE
"Mark Twain and the American
Approach to Drugs"
by Bruce K. Alexander
Section F: ARTICLE
"Computers in Psychiatry --
What Happened to All the Hype?"
by Martin Briscoe & Mark Johnson
Section G: THE FIFTH COLUMN
"The Smoking Controversy: A Right to
Protect Versus a Right to Smoke?"
by Jeffrey A. Schaler & Magda E. Schaler
Section H: RESOURCE UPDATE
by Sunkyo Kwon
Section I: EVENTS SECTION
(2 files) by Myron Pulier
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PSYCHNEWS INTERNATIONAL
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Editor-in-Chief: Sunkyo Kwon
Managing Editor: Don Corriveau
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Resource Update: N.N.
News: Don Corriveau
Announcements
and Events: Myron Pulier
Fifth Column: Jeffrey Schaler
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Associate Editors: Ivan Goldberg, John Grohol
Editorial Consultants: Leon Pereira, Ian Pitchford, Joe Plaud
Proofreader/Writer: Myrna Condon
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