PsyDip: Selected highlights from 2009-2010

After over a year of periodic blogging, PsyDip continues to ask bold diplomacy questions from a wide range of psychological perspectives: Abnormal, Behavioral, Biological, Clinical/Counseling, Cognitive, Comparative, Critical, Developmental, Educational/School, Evolutionary, Forensic/Legal, Global, Health, Humanistic, Industrial-Organizational, Linguistic, Personality, Positive, Psychoanalytical, Quantitative, and Social.

Here are some selected highlights from PsyDip blog entries over the past twelve months: 

Psychology Paradigms and Diplomacy Topics

http://psydip.blogspot.com/2009/09/psychological-paradigms-and-diplomacy.html

Why Diplomats Envy Babies

http://psydip.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-diplomats-envy-babies.html

Diplomacy and Social Psychology: Up Against Sheep?

http://psydip.blogspot.com/2009/09/social-psychology-is-another-area-of.html

Diplomacy and Abnormal Psychology: Are Countries Sometimes Crazy?

http://psydip.blogspot.com/2009/10/diplomacy-abnormal-psychology-are-some.html

Developmental PsyDip: Do Nations Have Lifecycles?

http://psydip.blogspot.com/2009/11/developmental-psydip-do-nations-have.html

Color-based & Power Differential-based Privilege: The Broader Core Issues

http://psydip.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-we-became-white-people-by-christian.html

More entries are forthcoming in 2010-2011, so stay tuned!  In the meantime, you can browse old entries in the blog archive section at the right margin.  And as always with diplomacy, think about the psychology behind it!

-PsyDip

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