| Abstract: | Presents a summary of activities at the Assembly of the International Union of Scientific Psychology at Montreal held June 6th. Donald Marquis and H. S. Langfeld attended the meeting as representatives of the American Psychological Association. The Assembly voted to accept Jugoslavia as a member of the Union. There are now 20 adhering countries, the last to be admitted besides Jugoslavia being Israel and Egypt. The Secretary General reported that the Union had been accepted on a consultative basis by the Division of the Social Sciences of Unesco. Subjects for research in social psychology were ranked and are listed here. The Assembly agreed that a directory of foreign psychology was desirable. The changes in the statutes proposed by the Executive Committee last July were adopted. The Assembly elected Jean Piaget president of the Union and E. T. Rasmussen vice president. The Executive Committee was elected. The Executive Committee elected Klineberg as Secretary General and Mailloux as Treasurer. It was voted that the Acta Psychologica should be under the auspices of the Union without financial obligations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
