Nine studies review the literature on various aspects of psychology, including some topics that are of uncertain relation to the field, in particular using native plants for the phytoextraction of mercury from contaminated salt marshes. Other topics include coping with decisions about participation in a national screening mammography program; the informal sector as a boot camp for coping with joblessness, livelihoods, and variated outcomes in African cities; whether intelligence is a vulnerability factor for functional somatic symptoms; and subjective sleep quality and the state of anxiety in high-school students prior to a final sport exam. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)