Acknowledgments

      This second edition of The Handy Psychology Answer Book rests on the shoulders of the first edition. Therefore, I’d like to repeat my acknowledgments of those who contributed to the original work. Many thanks are due to Drs. Igor Galynker, Nancy Maruyama, and the Division of Biological Psychiatry for their continual and extremely helpful feedback on various chapters. Thanks to Drs. Ramin Mojtabai, Alessandra Strada, and Ed D’Angelo for their comments on the accuracy or lack thereof of sections on neurobiology, humanistic psychology, and classical thought. I would also like to acknowledge Vanessa and David Evans, Alex and Josh Cohen, David, Marina, and Arielle Vergara, Julie Cohen Evans, Katia Segre Cohen, and Sylvia Cohen for their insights into adolescent slang past and present and into the mysterious world of children’s thought. Thanks, as well, to Dennis Mack for creative ideas as well as legal advice.

      For the second edition, thanks are again owed to the Vergara family for keeping me up to date on the ever-changing intricacies of social media. To Roger Jänecke and Kevin Hile—neither book would exist if it weren’t for you. And also to my students and my patients for showing me a wealth of knowledge that could never be found in books alone. Finally, to Ed for tolerating with such good grace my many, many hours absorbed at the computer.