Advances in Psychology Research

Contents: Self-concept, weight issues and body image in children and adolescents; Psychological and socio-cultural correlates of eating disorders in the Mediterranean area; Effects of temperament on the development of externalizing and internalizing behaviors over 9 years; Internalizing values and virtues; Sex offending: a behavioral analysis perspective; Bullying amongst prisoners: a review of the interventions suggested by research; Classroom context and the development of aggression: the role of normative processes; Euthanasia; Reading difficulties and event-related brain potentials; The impact of multiple fit on implicit associations between categories: the implicit-association test as a research instrument in the study of social categorization; Methodological issues in congruence studies; Analyzing group work processes: towards a conceptual framework and systematic statistical analyses; Investigating black-white differences in psychometric IQ: multi-group confirmatory factor analyses of the WISoftcover-R and K-ABC and a critique of the method of correlated vectors; Reputation enhancing goals: integrating reputation enhancement and goal setting theory as an explanation of delin