CONTENTS March, 1999

Cover Photo Copyright 1999 Carolyn Simmons

On the Deconstruction of Natural Disasters Earthquakes; AASP Conference; Dissertation Award; How slow is the mail? Bill Gabrenya		IACCP Affairs Call for Nominations for Officers and Regional Representatives of IACCP Jim Georgas ARTS2000 Advanced Research and Training Seminars John Adair IACCP Announcements Bellingham Congress Proceedings Book JCCP Special Issue Witkin/Okonji Memorial Fund Awards Doctoral Thesis Award General Announcements Positions in (cross-)cultural psychology Conferences IACCP SCCR Others... INFORUM Bernardo Ferdman California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, California USA Harry Triandis University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois USA Norman Feather The Flinders University of South Australia
Commentary on "Whatever Happened to Modernization?" Geert Hofstede and Cigdem Kagitcibasi discuss her December, 1998 article.
Regional Report: Psychology in the South African Context South African psychology in the post-apartheid era. Debo Akande
I/O Psych: Evaluation for Cross-Cultural Work: Assessment Center Methods in Finland A detailed look at the use of assessment centers to identify personal factors predictive of competency in a wide range of occupations. Petteri Niitamo
Theory & Method: A Cultural Feast Review of Michael Cole's Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline. Angeline Lillard
Megareview: The West Meets the Majority: Alternate Paths to Understanding Culture in Development, un regard critique de France Review of Kagitcibasi's Family and Human Development Across Cultures and Gardiner et al.'s Cross-Cultural Human Development. Colette Sabatier

About the Cover Photo Contributed by Carolyn Simmons In a small chartered sailboat, my husband and I were exploring the French Polynesian islands of Ta'Haa, Raitea, and Bora Bora. As we pulled our small dinghy up to the public dock at Vaitape, these three girls approached to try their newly-learned French skills with the strangers. After our visit, they pulled hibiscus blooms from a nearby bush for us and called out a Tahitian goodbye, "Parahi"! (See related story, p. 40.)