et al.

omg! who is this or what does this mean?! It's next to a load of psychologist's names

Natvig et al.
Walters et al.
Berry et al.
Harkness et al.

Reply 1

La Trampa

et al just means 'and all' in latin.it means that the guy who's name is first is like the lead writer n he wrote the book with some other people so they just write 'et al' instead of writing loads of names.hope it helps,u helped me :biggrin:

Reply 2

fleur-de-lis

Except that et al is used when there are more than 2 authors

Reply 3

saiyamanadingdongbanana

ahh, thanks for clreaing that up. At first i thought it was the name of a psychologist who loves taking part in loads of different studies :redface:

Reply 4

Peacey

saiyamana

ahh, thanks for clreaing that up. At first i thought it was the name of a psychologist who loves taking part in loads of different studies :redface:

don't worry about it - I encounter this mistake multiple times each year. :wink:

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