Introduction to the Special Issue on Narcissistic Personality Disorder

A developmental psychopathology perspective on personality disorder: introduction to the special issue.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Integrating Personality and Social Psychology

Some 50 years ago, in 1937, Gordon Allport published Personality: A Psychological Interpretation. Much in the manner of his brother Floyd's Social Psychology of 1924, Gordon Allport's book served as a seminal text and promoted the development of courses on personality within academic departments of psychology. At the same time, however, Allport vigorously argued for the independence of personal...

Overview: narcissistic personality disorder.

The authors trace the evolution of narcissistic personality disorder as a nosological entity in a critical survey of the literature, considering and comparing differing theoretical viewpoints regarding the genesis of this disorder. They review its various descriptions, including the one in DSM-III, and develop a composite picture of the syndrome. The disorder consists of characteristic deficits...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Binding

In many ways visual processing acts as a prism, splitting visual information from the retinal image into separately processed visual features such as colours, shapes, sizes, or orientations. Binding refers to the set of cognitive and neural mechanisms that re-integrate these features to create a holistic representation of the objects in the visual field. The binding problem in vision refers to ...

Introduction to the Special Issue on Summarization

As the amount of online information increases, systems that can automatically summarize one or more documents become increasingly desirable. Recent research has investigated types of summaries, methods to create them, and methods to evaluate them. Several evaluation competitions (in the style of NIST’s TREC1) have helped determine baseline performance levels and provide a limited set of trainin...