Format to write in PSYBER NEWS Journal

Please read earlier issue of the journal to understand format of writing the paper.
Please submit your paper in Ms-office 2003 Word document version. For research article, word limit is 4000. And for others except freelance research news, word limit is 2000. For freelance research news, word limit is 300. Please save your file with the title of your paper as file name. Please read the followings before submission of your research paper.

1. Title of paper:
2. Abstract of paper:
3. Name of Author(s):
4. Date of submission:
5. Address of affiliated institute (Department and Institute name) :
   
   Addresses of Authors, phone no(s). and E-mail(s):
6. Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this article.The article has not been sent anywhere for publication. .
7. Introduction and photo in Jpeg format. Please write your introduction as brief as possible in text mode (without attachment). Please send your photo in jpeg format as attachment.

Title:

It will be brief and not over generalized. Title is related to Abstract and abstract should be related to main text.

Please follow format to write case study here

Abstract:
Abstract is used for searching interested reviewers. It should focus on what author
addresses sequentially. Second it includes the way to examine the idea and the related methods. The independent and dependent variables must be clear. Key words will be below abstract.

Main text:

1. Technical terms and key words will be defined properly so that reader can relate the meaning with main text.
2. Avoid sweeping comment. Each comment will be justified with empirical evidences or examples.
3. Avoid unnecessary 'the'
4. Full title of the acronym is to be be mentioned at first before its repeated use in the text. Acronym disturbs flow of reading.
5. Psychological tools will be mentioned along with its psychometric properties and scoring. This helps readers to understand the descriptive and inferential statistics used in the results.
6. In writing experimental study, the procedure of data collection will include the details about controlling of intervening variables. Research design should mention the independent, dependent and intervening variables.

Authorship

1. Lead Author
   As a practical matter in the case of publications with multiple authors, one author should be designated as the lead author. The lead author assumes overall responsibility for the manuscript, and also often serves as the managerial and corresponding author, as well as providing a significant contribution to the research effort. A lead author is not necessarily the principal investigator or project leader. The lead author is responsible for:
   1. Authorship: Including as co-authors all and only those individuals who meet the authorship criteria set forth in this policy.
   2. Approval: Providing the draft of the manuscript to each individual contributing author for review and consent for authorship. The lead author should obtain from all coauthors their agreement to be designated as such and their approval of the manuscript. A journal may have specific requirements governing author review and consent, which must be followed.
   3. Integrity: The lead author is responsible for the integrity of the work as a whole, and ensuring that reasonable care and effort has been taken to determine that all the data are complete, accurate, and reasonably interpreted.
2. Co-authors
   All co-authors of a publication are responsible for:
   1. Authorship: By providing consent to authorship to the lead author, co-authors acknowledge that they meet the authorship criteria set forth in section 1 of this policy. A coauthor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
   2. Approval: By providing consent to authorship to the lead author, co-authors are acknowledging that they have reviewed and approved the manuscript.
   3. Integrity: Each co-author is responsible for the content of all appropriate portions of the manuscript, including the integrity of any applicable research.
   An individual retains the right to refuse co-authorship of a manuscript if s/he does not satisfy the criteria for authorship.
3. Acknowledgments
   Individuals who may have made some contribution to a publication, but who do not meet the criteria for authorship, such as staff, editorial assistants, medical writers, or other individuals, can provide a valuable contribution to the writing and editing of publications. Since those contributions do not meet the criteria for authorship under this policy, those individuals should be listed in an acknowledgement and/or contributorship section of the work.

Editor's observation: Review process takes time due to some limitations in presentation. These are (a) absence of the operational definition of all research variables; (b) absence of justification for their inclusion in current research; (c) absence of sample items to assess research constructs, reliability and validity of the instrument used. (d) absence of indication by the total score; (e) absence of discussion with available theories or own insight about research findings. Please include the above in your text. Best of luck!

References
References should be numbered. Font size will be 12 with Times New Roman type.
Use Surname first. Source will be italics. So, book title, journal names, title of project report, drafts, abstracts should be in italics. References for the Project report,unpublished dissertation, draft will focus submission to. In case of journal references, vol, no.and page number will be within comma.
Some examples are given below:

For unpublished dissertation


1. Datta A. (2008). Determination of Neural Substrates underlying cognitive functions in patients with focal brain lesions. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of Calcutta.
   For Journal
2. Lawrence,AD,Sahakian,BJ,Hodges,JR,Rosser,AE,Lange,KW,Robbins,TW(1996). Executive and mnemonic functions in early Huntinghton’s disease, Brain,119, 5,1633-1645.
   For Book
3. Stuss, D.T. and Knight, R.T. (2002). Principles of frontal lobe function. New York: Oxford University Press.
   For edited Book
4. Atkinson, J. W. and Shiffrin, R. M. (1968). Human Memory: A Proposed System and its Control Processes. In K. W. Spence (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory. (Vol.2, pp. 89-105), NY: Academic Press.
   For Web site
   
5. Neuroplasticity - Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity dated 27.3.2012.

For reporting statistics

• Correlation: r(N-2)=value,p<0.05/0.01>
• Chi-square: Chi-square(df)=value,p<0.05/0.01>
• F-value: F(df1,df2)=value,p<0.05/0.01>

SOME COMMON ERRORS

1. Firstly, secondly, thirdly. It will be First, second and third.
2. It ranges from -0.64 - -0.74.. It will be -0.64 to -0.74.
3. Males/Females : Male/female respondents or Men and Women according to age.

Disclaimer:

After reference, write this statement to avoid
Plagiarism : Please check whether your article has been plagiarized using specific software.

Declaration of Conflicting Interests:
The author(s) declared no conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this.

REVIEW PROCESS
Review process will be time taking if you make drastic change in your manuscript based on the comment of reviewer. Please follow tracking modes in the word document so that your specific modification can be understood. Please submit your revised manuscript in Ms-Word 2003 format or Rich text format. Sorry for inconveniences.


PHOTO AND BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Authors will be requested to submit photo and brief introduction when the manuscript has been accepted for publication. Photo should be in jpeg format separated from word document. If there are two or more than two authors, each author's photo should be separated. Introduction should be very brief and related to given article.

Obituary to Professor S. N. Ghosh

"The faculty members (both present and past), students, research scholars and staff of the Department of Applied Psychology, CU, deeply condole the sudden demise of Prof. Satyanarayan Ghosh, Ex-professor of the Department, and Associate professor of IIT-Kharagpur and formerly Registrar of the University of Calcutta as well as the Ex-Vice -Chancellor of the Vidyasagar University. Apart from his academic excellence and outstanding research experience, he was notable for his suavity of manners and never failing smile while interacting with teachers, students, research scholars as well as stff members of the department. May his soul rest in peace.

All members share the deep grief and enormous loss of his family members due to his death."

Excerpt from the condolence meeting of the department of Applied Psychology, Calcutta University

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Professor Satya Narayan Ghosh, Retired Professor of the Department of Applied Psychology, Calcutta University expired on 4th September, 2010. Prof. Ghosh was a faculty of IIT, Kharagpur before coming to Calcutta University. Later on, he served as the Registrar, Calcutta University and then as Vice Chancellor, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.

Prof. Ghosh was 80, but apparently healthy and actively involved in many academic affairs. He is remembered by his colleagues and students as an excellent teacher with an ever smiling face and humble demeanor.

May his soul rest in peace.

Introduction to Authors, October Issue

OCTOBER ISSUE: IN PROCESS

Prof. M Basavanna


Prof. M Basavanna (b. 1933) had the privilege of being a student of professors M. V. Gopalaswamy, B. Kuppuswamy, and B. Krishnan, the three eminent psychologists. Dr Basavanna retired as professor and chairman of the department of psychology at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati (A.P.), after having served there for thirty-five years. Even now he is actively engaged in teaching and writing about psychology in spite of his advancing age. His major interests are personality, counseling, and history of psychology. He has published several articles and books in psychology. He lives in Bangalore and occasionally offers counseling to the needy.
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Jayanti Basu

Jayanti Basu is a Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Calcutta. She is also a psychoanalyst and rehabilitation psychologist. Her major research interests are in Social Psychology (including gender stereotype, aggressive behaviour, sexuality and moral behaviour, relationship issues), Clinical and Heath Psychology (including psychotherapy process, mental health aspects of chronic diseases, neuropsychological aspects of ageing, ego functions) and Cognitive Psychology (including memory and thinking).

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Narayanan Srinivasan


Dr. Narayanan Srinivasan is currently Professor and Head at the Centre of
Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad. Dr. Srinivasan
is also a visiting scientist at the Riken Brain Science Institute since 2006. He has
a master degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and
subsequently earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Georgia, USA
in 1996 specializing in Cognitive Psychology. He is primarily interested in studying
visual perception, attention, emotions, and consciousness. Dr. Srinivasan has edited
five books and has published more than seventy publications. Dr. Srinivasan is an
associate editor for the journals International Journal on Mind, Brain and Cognition
and Psychological Studies.

Home page: http://facweb.cbcs.ac.in/nsrini



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Parul Rishi

Dr. Parul Rishi, PhD in Psychology and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Human Resource Management at Indian Institute of Forest Management, (IIFM), Bhopal . She has published around 65 papers in different International/National journals and book chapters and presented more than 40 papers in different scientific National and International conferences.Currently she is engaged in teaching, training, research and consulting assignments focusing primarily on Behavioural Perspectives of Forest and Environmental issues, Stress Management and Personality Development, Environmental Leadership and corporate social responsibility.

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Ketoki Mazumdar

Ketoki Mazumdar, research scholar at the Centre for Human Ecology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Having completed her Mphil from the same institute, she is now working towards her PhD in the field of positive psychology and well- being. She finds child and adolescent psychology as her area of interest along with the new found curiosity in the zone of Social and Developmental psychology as well. Mixed methodology is her prime research focus, with special emphasis on qualitative research. She has made use of NVivo (qualitative software) for her analysis while doing MPhil dissertation. Her prior education has been in the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta. Currently, her PhD is in the area of Positive Psychology, Well-being and Happiness under the guidance of Dr. Rajani K, from TISS.

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NovRattan Sharma

Nov Rattan Sharma is the Professor of Psychology at M.D. University, Rohtak and Editor of the Journal of Indian Health Psychology. He has 27 years of teaching experience. Professor Sharma contributed around 75 research articles to various journals and Books. He edited seven books on different titles of psychology. Besides supervision of M.Phil and Doctoral dissertation, he is engaged in extensive community level programmes on applications of Psychology. His areas of research are Positive Health Psychology, Spirituality and Meditation.
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Mandeep Sharma

Mandeep Sharma (Project Fellow- SAP (UGC- DRS-II) after completing M.Phil from Kurukshetra University Kurukshatra is doing Ph.d under the supervision of Prof. Amrita Yadava in Department of Psychology, M.D.University, Rohtak in the area of Lie Detection (Polygraph). He published 8 research articles in reputed journals.

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Kaveri Chauhan
Kaveri Chauhan, after completing M.Phil from Dept. of Psychology, M.D.University, Rohtak, is working as a Counselor (Psychologists) in Richmond Fellowship Society (Delhi), HALFWAY HOME & DAY CARE CENTRE For patients suffering from (Schizophrenia). She published one research article in reputed journal (JIIAP). Her research interests are in the areas Mediation and Spirituality.
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Kakali Basu
Mrs. Kakali Basu is the Board Member and Chief Researcher of Step One Foundation (http://stepone.jimdo.com/). She is also an honourary Advisor of Performing Arts Therapy center, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. She is presently teacher-in-charge of St. Mary's Orphanage & Day school Multi Disability Unit. Her research interests are in children with disabilities.

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Bishakha Mazumdar

Bishakha Majumdar completed her Masters in Applied Psychology from the University of Calcutta in 2009. She has been a lecturer at Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, and is presently working as a Research Project Fellow in the DRS (Departmental Research Support) I, (Special Assistance Programme [SAP]) University Grants Commission, Project on Students’ Mental Health and Health Seeking Behaviour in the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta. She is also a Master Trainer for Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria-7 (GFATM), Calcutta University, since August 2009, and is a regular resource person for training ICTC (Integrated Counselling & Testing Centre), STI (Sexually Transmitted Infections) and ART (Anti Retroviral Therapy) Counsellors under WBSAP&CS (West Bengal State AIDS Prevention & Control Society). Her research works, on organizational behavior and/or mental health, have been presented in conferences in India and abroad, and have been accepted for national and international publications.
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Anjana Bhattacharjee

Anjana Bhattacharjee, M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Psychology, is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, Maharaja Bir Bikram College, Tripura University. She is also Visiting Faculty in the Directorate of Distance Education (M.A. in Education), Tripura University. In brief, she has got 8 years research and 3 years teaching experience. Presently, she is the State Convener (for Tripura) of Indian School Psychology Association. Her current areas of research interest include drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, and problems of disadvantaged youths.
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Probable pics in October issue

July issue of the journal

History of Psychological Testing during the World War I : Ms. Sukanya Roy
Indian Institute of Psychometry:Ms.Nupur Munshi
Challenges of Psychometrics: Dr. D. Dutta Roy
In search of the determinants of terrorism: Dr. Anindita Choudhuri and Ms. Lopamudra Saha
Pre-requisites for Assessing Psychological Trauma among the Survivors of Disaster : Dr. Subhashish Bhadra
Competency and competency mapping : Professor Daftuar
Positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia : Ms.Shivani Santosh
Information organization errors : Ms. Ananya Mondal
Data Visualization : Dr. D. Dutta Roy

Acknowledgment

The Editorial board of PSYBER NEWS acknowledges with gratitude the help of the following persons who have kindly reviewed and provided expert opinion on manuscripts published in Third issue of PSYBER NEWS.

Fakir Mohan Sahoo,
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar

Amita Mazumder, Indian Statistical Institute,

N.K.Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur

Joseph Indelicato, Touro College School of Health
Sciences, New York

Jayanti Basu, Calcutta university,Calcutta

B.L.Dubey, University of Alaska, USA

S.P.K. Jena , Department of Applied Psychology , N

Nov Rattan Sharma, Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak

Kamlesh Singh, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Susmita Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Prasanta Kumar Roy, Calcutta University, Kolkata.

First paragraph of articles published in January, 2010

HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING BEFORE FIRST WORLD WAR

An overview of historical antecedents of psychological tests is essential to understand present-day tests. Although the widespread use of psychological testing is largely a phenomenon of the twentieth century, historians note that rudimentary forms of testing date back to Vedic periods of India. The History of India begins with the Indus Valley Civilization and the coming of the Aryans. These two phases are generally described as the pre-Vedic and Vedic periods. In Vedic periods, daughters of kings or emperors assigned performance tests to the willing candidates before wedding to her. The selection procedures were very systematic and candidates showed their competencies in different manners. We know about vedic periods from Rig Veda which was composed between 1,500 B.C. and 1,000 B.C.

PSYCHOLOGY IN INDIA BEFORE INDEPENDENCE

The early years of 20th century witnessed the dawn of Psychology in India. Psychology as a discipline, at that time already attained its foothold in Europe. Researches in psychology were also gaining its popularity in United States of America. Great visionaries and educationists in India also foresee the prospects of this new forte of knowledge. Renowned educationist and the then Vice chancellor of Calcutta University, Sir Asutosh Mookerjee planned to include “Experimental Psychology” in the post graduate courses of Calcutta University. At his request Dr. Brojendro Nath Seal, Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy formed the syllabus in 1905 after consulting the course studies of Various European and American universities. Asia at about the same time was observing the emergence of its first psychology laboratory in the University of Tokyo, Japan.

PRE-REQUISITES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING

Over the last century, a large number of psychological tests have been designed to assess ability, aptitude, personality, attitude, interests etc. These are widely used for decision making in clinical and non-clinical settings. It is misnomer to assume that psychological test is for obtaining information about people. It is more than that. It is a device to gauge inter and intra individual differences in psychological traits. Therefore, the test should be reliable, valid, standardized and norm referenced. Following pre-requisites will help test administrator, test data interpreter and test developer in different ways.

COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
India is now home to the world's largest number of blind people. Of the 37 million people across the globe who are blind, over 15 million are from India. Therefore, there is a huge need of psychological tests and trained administrator for assessing different psychological abnormalities among blind. Langley (1979) had observed, “Few psychologists are trained to assess normal infants, and even fewer are trained to assess individuals who may function as infants and also manifest some severe form of visual impairment or other sensory or physical deficit.” Increasingly assessment of visually handicapped is being regarded as a complex process which calls for the involvement of professionals from different areas of expertise and experience, a process in which parents and teachers can also rightfully play an active and important role, in view of their extended contact with the individual. As blind people are impaired in vision, attention should be paid to the specific procedures of test administration.

GUIDELINES FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL TEST ADAPTATION
Test translation and test adaptation are the two main problems linked with cross-cultural/cross national testing (Butcher and Garcia, 1978). With the increasing interest in cross-cultural research and international exchange of tests, there is a growing need for adapting psychological tests. Test adaptation assists both respondents and researchers. It helps respondents of different cultures to respond with near equal extent of accuracy in terms of measuring underlying domains. The process can generally be less costly than item construction, validation, and norm development of a new test can take several years and require substantial amounts of money and time. Researcher can develop theory on adapted test for cross-national, cross-language, or cross-ethnic comparative studies, and of course they can be made available to clinicians for patient evaluation.

PSYCHOINFORMATICS : INNOVATION IN MINING RANODOMIZED DATA
With rapid, randomized digitalized and non digitalized information explosion, problems of psychology are moving from bounded psychology arena to unbounded psychology. Bounded psychology refers to knowing psychology through responses controlled by the experimenter or test constructor. Knowing psychology through randomized responses or data is called unbounded psychology. Knowing psychology through predetermined hypotheses limits our knowledge to pre-assumed psychological traits. This causes serious problem to gauge all determinants of individual differences in behaviour. Psychoinformatics is a technique through which we can mine data in any form and can develop pattern based on relations among data. The pattern finally reflects specific psychological traits. It uses computer databases to store, retrieve and assist in understanding psychological information. Data warehouse, data retrieving, data mining, pattern recognition and discovery of knowledge are five basic principles of psycho-informatics. Psychoinformatics is different from Bioinformatics where in biological information is used for classification. Common example of bioinformatics is storing human DNA finger printing for classification of individuals.