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Free Editorial Article from the New Special Section Issue of the International Journal of Psychology Now Available Online

We have made the new Editorial Article of the International Journal of Psychology's latest Special Section issue, titled Culture and Human Development, by A. Bame Nsamenang, free to read online.

Human offspring develop into culturally competent citizens in a huge variety of ecological and cultural circumstances. The selection of papers for this Special Section deals with some dimensions of these issues in contemporary African societies. More explicitly, they provide research-based evidence and programmatic efforts to understand and intervene on factors perceived as thwarting the optimization of human potential in African cultural settings. The papers are special in one important sense - they place an accent on culture as a key determinant of developmental outcome.

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International Journal of Psychology — New Free Article

We have made a new article from the International Journal of Psychology free to all readers, titled New Research on Acculturation Among Diaspora Migrants by Rainer K. Silbereisen. It is the opening article of the latest IJP Special Section issue, where a number of articles are devoted to a particular topic.

The new Special Section presents four papers on the acculturation of so-called diaspora or repatriate migrants, in example citizens of countries of the former Soviet Union, who represent an ethnic minority that used the opportunity to migrate to their "home" country, particularly after the end of the cold war and investigate the question whether acculturation is different for these migrants compared to other migrant groups.

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Free Special Issue of International Journal of Psychology Now Available!

Ahead of the 29th annual International Congress of Psychology, taking place in Berlin this July, Psychology Press has made Issue 4 of Volume 42 of the International Journal of Psychology, guest edited by Peter Frensch (Humboldt Univerity, Germany) and Ralf Schwarzer (Free University Berlin, Germany) available for free download to all.

The Special Issue is based around the theme of Psychological Research in Berlin, the Host City of ICP 2008, and raises awareness of the broad diversity of psychological research coming out of the city, which boasts three universities with psychology departments, as well as a major psychology research institution: the Humboldt University, the Free University, the University of Technology, and the Max Planck Institute of Human Development.

The International Journal of Pychology is published on behalf of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPSyS), and edited by Claudia Dalbert of Martin Luther University, Germany.

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