Dispute resolution in the psychological abstracts: Publication patterns in 1990 and 1991

Abstract

The Psychological Abstracts for the years 1990 and 1991 were reviewed in order to compare the levels of psychologists' interests in mediation during those years to the levels found for the years 1980‐1989. For 1990 a total of thirty‐eight dispute‐resolution citations were found, equal to the average of thirty‐eight citations per year found for the 1980‐1985 period but substantially lower than the seventy‐four per year for 1986‐1989. Only twenty‐four citations were found for 1991, evidence of a decline in psychologists' interest in dispute‐resolution topics.

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“…Helm and his associates {Helm, Odom &Wright, 1991;Helm & Wright, 1992;Helm & Moore, 1992) conducted three reviews of the psychological abstracts, one review of the years 1980 through 1985, another of 1986 through 1989 and the last one of 1990 and 1991, in order to compare the levels of psychologists' interests in mediation as reflected in the numbers of publications found during these years (no abstracts were found in 1978 or 1979) . Their search was conducted using the concepts •conflict', 'mediation' and 'dispute resolution' as their indexes.…”