| Abstract: | The current crisis for departments of psychology arises from (a) cuts in research and training grants; (b) rising costs, (c) level-off of public appropriations; and (d) attacks on the efficiency and relevance of higher education by students, alumni, legislators, and the public. Pressures toward greater involvement in society and greater attempts to relate research and teaching to social problems are blocked by the need for retrenchment resulting from the budgetary crisis and anxiety about lack of skills. However, responsiveness to society is made much more feasible than in the past by (a) increasing interest in tackling problems of human psychology with experimental methods; and (b) the upsurge of interest in developmental psychology, experimental social psychology, and other areas relating formerly applied areas to the more scientific aspects of psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
