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| Formation | 1988 |
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| Headquarters | 1133 15th Street NW, Suite 1000 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Membership | 20,000 |
| President | Walter Mischel, PhD |
| Website | http://www.psychologicalscience.org/ |
The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare. APS is dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national level. To this end, it hold annual meetings, publishes several journals, and works with government agencies to promote scientific psychology.
The current president (2008-2009) is Walter Mischel and the President-Elect is Linda Bartoshuk. The Past President is John Cacioppo, University of Chicago.
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Membership
APS has approximately 20,000 members worldwide, including psychological scientists and academics, clinicians, researchers, teachers, and administrators across all fields of science1.
Convention
The 20th Annual Convention was held May 22-25, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois. The next convention is set to take place in San Francisco, CA May 22-25, 2009.2.
Professional activities
Journals
Dissemination of psychological research is one of the primary goals of the Association for Psychological Science. To fulfil this mission, APS publishes four scientific psychology journals3.
Psychological Science publishes general interest articles across all of scientific psychology's sub-disciplines, including the behavioral, clinical, cognitive, neural, and social sciences. Psychological Science is ranked among the top 10 general psychology journals for impact by the Institute for Scientific Information.citation needed
Current Directions in Psychological Science publishes concise reviews, spanning all of scientific psychology and its applications. The reviews published in this journal cover such current topics as theory of mind, neural bases of memory, face recognition, expression of emotion, cognition and aging, and attachment and personality in mammals.
Psychological Science in the Public Interest reviews topics where psychological science may have the potential to inform and improve the well-being of society. Topics addressed in this journal include the validity of projective techniques, such as the Rohrschach Inkblot Test, the impact of classroom size on student achievement, sex differences in science and math, enhancing the effectiveness of work groups and teams, and risk and rationality in adolescent decision making.
Perspectives on Psychological Science publishes theoretical statements, literature reviews, viewpoints and opinions, research presentations, and scholarship. This journal publishes larger and more integrative articles, including broad integrative reviews, an overview of a research program, a standard literature review, meta-analytic reviews, theoretical statements, book reviews, and eclectic articles on topics such as the philosophy of science issues, opinion pieces about major issues in the field, autobiographical reflections of senior members of the field on some topic of interest, or even humorous essays and sketches.
APS's monthly newsletter is the Observer, which contains research and opinion pieces by psychological researchers. APS undergraduate affiliates publish an online-only journal, Undergraduate Update.
Public Affairs
APS issues press releases and on the research appearing in its' journals. Wray Herbert, Director of Public Affairs, writes the blog, "We're Only Human" which is also printed in Scientific American Mind.
Advocacy
APS lobbies federal policy makers about the role of behavioral science in health, education, productivity, and other areas of public concern, and works to improve the visibility of psychological science and further its use in developing public policy.
APSSC
The APSSC is the Association for Psychological Science Student Caucus. The APS Student Caucus is a representative body of the student affiliates of the Association for Psychological Science. The APSSC was initiated in 1989 (a year after the Society was founded) by a group of students at the 2nd annual APS convention. All student affiliates of APS automatically become a member of the APSSC. The current president (2008-2009) is Kelli Vaughn-Blount of York University.
See also
References
- ^ "History of APS". Retrieved on 2008-11-11.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions About the Association for Psychological Science". Retrieved on 2008-11-11.
- ^ "APS Journals". Retrieved on 2008-11-11.
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