My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Review of Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures) by Herbert S. Terrace. Review by Dom Massaro. email: massaro@ucsc.edu

FROM STEEL MILL TO MATHEMATICAL
PSYCHOLOGY: EXPLOITING SIGNALING
IN EDUCATION
The Case Against Education: Why the Education
System Is a Waste of Time and Money
By Bryan Caplan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. 395 pp. Hardcover, $18.60.A NEW PARADIGM FOR BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE. American Journal of Psychology, 2020, 133, 129-133.

Experiencing Reality in Virtual Readlity (VR). Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do by Jeremy Bailenson. Review by Dom Massaro, email: massaro@ucsc.edu.

DÉJÀ VU: LET’S CELEBRATE THE UNCONSCIOUS
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons
We Do What We Do. By John Bargh. New York, NY: Touchstone, 2017. 352 pp. Hardcover, $11.16. American Journal of Psychology, 2019, 132, 250-256.

How Not to Play the Game of Psychological Inquiry. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto
for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
By Chris Chambers. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. 288 pp. Hardcover, $29.95. American Journal of Psychology, 2018, 131, 119-124.

A New Paradigm for Behavioral Science. Review of Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2017. 352 pp. Hardcover, $27.99. American Journal of Psychology, 2018, 131, 501-506.

Five Decades After Chomsky: An Experienced-Based Awakening. Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing (MIT Press) Mar 18, 2016 by Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater. Review by Dom Massaro massaro@ucsc.edu

Massaro, D. W. (2015). A Chacun Son [Review of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World]. The American Journal of Psychology, 128(4), 550–555. http://doi.org/10.5406/amerjpsyc.128.4.055

Massaro, D. W. (2012). A Quarter Century of Book Reviews in The American Journal of Psychology (pp. 499-500). DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.125.4.0499. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerjpsyc.125.4.0499. American Journal of Psychology, 2012, 125, 499-500.

2008 Massaro, D. W. Editor’s Commentary on “Seeing Red” and “The Innocent Illusion.” American Journal of Psychology, 2008, 121, 514-516.

2000 Singh, N. & Massaro, D.W., “Now you see it, now you don’t.” Review of The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, The Personal Computer is so Complex, and Information Appliances are the Solution, by Donald A. Norman, American Journal of Psychology, 113, 123-135.

1999 Massaro, D.W. & Wenger, M.J. “Think globally, connect locally.” Review title of Grainger, J. & Jacobs, M.J. (Eds.), book Localist Connectionist Approaches to Human Cognition. In Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books, Robert J. Sternberger (Ed.), 44 (6): 521-524, December.

1994 Review of “Introducing information processing: Twenty-five years later.” In Memory And Attention: An Introduction to Human Information Processing by Donald A. Norman, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Out of print. American Journal of Psychology, 107: 597-603.

1993 Review of “Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception,” American Journal of Psychology, 106 (1): 129-131.

1992 Review of “Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a ‘Language’ Among Bees,” American Journal of Psychology, 105 (4): 653-659.

1991 Review of “The Adaptive Character of Thought” (with Daniel Friedman), American Journal of Psychology, 104: 467-474.

1990 Review of “The Psychology of Everyday Things,” American Journal of Psychology, 103: 141-143.

1990 Review of “Paradoxes of Gambling Behavior,” American Journal of Psychology, 103: 290-297.

Review of Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a “Language” Among Bees. By Adrian M. Wenner and Patrick H. Wells. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1990.

1989 Review of “The Oxford Companion to the Mind,” American Journal of Psychology, 102 (3): 439-441, Fall.

1989 Review of “Profile Analysis: Auditory Intensity Discrimination,” American Journal of Psychology, 102 (4): 587-592.n

1989 Review of “Patterns, Thinking, and Cognition: A Theory of Judgment,” American Journal of Psychology, 102 (2): 289-294, Summer.

1988 Review of Richard E. Petty & John T. Cacioppo, “Communication and Persuasion: Central and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Change,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 155-156.

1988 Review of Margaret A. Hagan, “A Neo-Gibsonian Perception of Pictures,” Contemporary Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 409-411.

1988 Review of Gerd Gigerenzer & David J. Murray, “Cognition as Intuitive Statistics,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 306-309.

1988 Review of Eds. Beryl E. McKenzie & Ross H. Day, “Perceptual Development in Early Infancy: Problems and Issues,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 101, No. 4, pp. 604-607.

1987 Review of William Lyons, “The Disappearance of Introspection,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 302-305.

1987 Review of Maureen V. Cox, “The Child’s Point of View: The Development of Cognition and Language,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 141-143.

1987 Review of Eds. Robert J. Sternberg & Douglas K. Detterman, “What is Intelligence? Contemporary Viewpoints on Its Nature and Definition,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 141-143.

1987 Review of Eds. Joseph S. Perkell & Dennis H. Klatt, “Invariance and Variability in Speech Processes,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 306-307.

1987 Review of David Premack, “Gavagai! On the Future History of the Animal Language Controversy,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 307-310.

1987 Review of Charles A. Perfetti, “Reading Ability,” American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 310-313.

1986 Review of William S. Cleveland, “The Elements of Graphing Data,” American Journal of Psychology, 443-448.

1986 Review of Peter Bryant & Lynette Bradley, “Children’s Reading Problems: Psychology and Education,” American Journal of Psychology, pp. 449-451.

1986 Review of Jerry A. Fodor, “The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology, American Journal of Psychology, pp. 435-442.

1986 Review of Jean-Claude Falmagne, “Elements of Psychophysical Theory,” American Journal of Psychology, pp. 559-561.

1986 Review of Frank J. Bruno, “Dictionary of Key Words in Psychology,” American Journal of Psychology, pp. 569.

1986 Review of Arthur S. Reber, “The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology,” American Journal of Psychology, pp. 568.

1984 Review of R. Crowder, “Psychology of reading” (with K. Paap), American Journal of Psychology, 97, 302-308.

1983 Review of L. Henderson, “Orthography and word recognition in reading” (with R.L. Venezky), American Journal of Psychology, 96, 584-587.

1983 Review of A.M. Lesgold & C.A. Perfetti, “Interactive processes in reading.” And O.J.L. Tzeng & H. Singer, “Perception of print: Reading research in experimental psychology,” American Journal of Psychology, 96, 143-151.

1981 “The Art of Perception and the Perception of Art.” Review of C.F. Nodine & D.F. Fisher (Eds.), Perception and Pictorial Representation. New York: Praeger. Contemporary Psychology, 26, 514-516.

1980 Review of B. Lindblom & S. Ohman (Eds.), “Frontiers of Speech Communication Research. New York: Academic Press, 1979. American Speech and Hearing Association Magazine, 22, #12, December.

1979 “Human Information Processing Achieves Handbook Status,” Review of W.K. Estes (Ed.), Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes, Vol. 5, Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum, 11978 Contemporary Psychology, 24, 355-357.

1978 “Toward a Psychology of Reading: The Proceedings of the CUNY Conference,” Edited by H.S. Reber & D.L. Scarborough, American Journal of Psychology, 91, 151-155.

1977 “The Common Sense of Behavioral Engineering, Review of A Technology of Reading and Writing, Vol. 1, Learning to Read and Write,” D.E.P. Smith Contemporary Psychology 22, 831-832.

1976 “The Psychology of Reading,” E.J. Gibson & H. Levin, American Journal of Psychology, 89, 161-172.