Archive for July 2012

Academy of Management conference, Chicago, August 11, 2009 Harry Triandis will receive the Eminent Scholar in International Management Award from the Academy of Managment in Chicago on August 11, 2009.  He will deliver an address on culture and psychology, and self-deception across cultures, for which Kwok Leung and Chris Earley will be the discussants.

Call for abstracts / DUE: August 1 Special Issue on Religion and culture: Perspectives from cultural and cross-cultural psychology Guest editors: Vassilis Saroglou (Université catholique de Louvain) and Adam B. Cohen (Arizona State University) The Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology announces a call for submissions of paper proposals on religion and culture.  Religion is – at…

(SEERCP2009), Sofia, Bulgaria SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY 2009 Southeastern Europe Looking Ahead: Paradigms, Schools, Needs and Achievements of Psychology in the SEE Region (SEERCP2009), Sofia, Bulgaria   Update (February 2009)   The South-East European Regional Conference of Psychology (SEERCP2009) is scheduled to be held in Sofia from 30 October to 1 November 2009…

Deadline for submissions extended to April 18, 2009 To be hosted by The University of Buea, Cameroon Organizers: Therese M. Tchombe & A. Bame Nsamenang Conference web site  

Bremen, Germany – July 2008 Honorary Fellowship conferred by The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology upon   Deborah L. Best, Professor, Wake Forest University, USA For more than three decades, Deborah L. Best has been a highly respected member of the family of cross-cultural psychologists and a significant contributor to the discipline of psychology.  She…

Bremen, Germany – July 2008 Honorary Fellowship conferred by The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology upon Peter B. Smith, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex, United Kingdom   This worthy recipient of an Honorary Fellowship from the IACCP began his cross-cultural journey after he had already established a reputation as an acute observer and analyst of…

The 2010 election of officers and regional representatives is completed.  The Executive Council decided in its 2008 Bremen meeting to move up the date of elections and announce the results as soon as possible so new EC members would be able to make plans to attend the two-day EC meeting the precedes each congress. We…

The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2nd edition) is now online at Google Books. This edition was published in 1997 and had been out of print for a while. As a service to the scientific community, the editors have arranged to make it available online. Google Books provides full text search, which means that you can…

South-East European Regional Conference of Psychology 2009 (SEERCP2009), Sofia, Bulgaria SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY 2009 Southeastern Europe Looking Ahead: Paradigms, Schools, Needs and Achievements of Psychology in the SEE Region (SEERCP2009), Sofia, Bulgaria Update (February 2009) The South-East European Regional Conference of Psychology (SEERCP2009) is scheduled to be held in Sofia from 30…

  The website for the 2012 Stellenbosch, South Africa biennial Congress is now live. See www.iaccp2012southafrica.co.za

Marshall Segall was names as an Honorary Fellow of IACCP at the 2010 Melbourne, Australia Congress.  Marshall was not able to travel to Australian to accept his honor. The text of his citation follows: — Marshall Howard Segall is a pioneer in the study of the relationship between culture and behavior.  As a student at…

The first editiorial board of the Online Readings in Psychology and Culture eBook has been named.  The new editor is Wolfgang Friedlmeier of Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA.  The Board includes: Michael Bender, Tilburg University, The NetherlandsChuck Hill, Whittier College, California, USAWalter Lonner (emeritus), Western Washington University, Bellingham, USAEmiko Kashima, La Trobe University, Melbourne,…

The PhD Regional Summer School is a new program sponsored by the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) to provide specialized training by experts, often from nations beyond participants‚Äô own nationalities. In addition to its educational benefits, the programme is designed to facilitate cross-cultural contact and understanding among future academic leaders and to broaden their…

The membership approved the new IACCP Constitution in a referendum held in February and March 2011. The vote was 121 in favor with 6 abstentions.  The new Constitution provides for improved administrative processes, governance of JCCP and new IACCP publications such as Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, and Special Interest Groups. The Constitution is…

Colleen wins Public Contribution Award; Ron wins Otto Klineberg Award Colleen Ward was presented with the Public Contribution Award by Victoria University of Wellington as “a result of her connection with many people and groups throughout academia, government, and the community”.   See:http://issues.co.nz/diversityissues/Blog/An+award+that+gets+at+the+heart+of+CACR Ron Fischer and Katja Hanke were given the 2010 Otto Klineberg Award by the Society…

Among the applied goals of cross-cultural psychology is the promotion of effective psychological and behavioral functioning in cultural, multicultural, and transcultural contexts. We therefore are pleased to issue this call for papers that will be considered for inclusion in a special issue with the tentative title, Cross-Cultural  Competence.  We encourage the submission of manuscripts that…

The scientific program is posted on the web: www.iaccp2011.org.   (click on the ‚ÄòScientific Program‚Äô from the main menu).

The programme for ARTS 2012 is now finalised, and the Announcement and Call for Participation is about to be launched. Three seminars will be offered in South Africa. Seminar 1: Coping with the Strains of Globalization: Culturally Appropriate Methods for Research on Health and Wellbeing (Convenors: Sonia Suchday and Oscar Barbarin) Seminar 2: Analyses of…

IACCP and ORPC Editor Wolfgang Friedlmeier are pleased to announce the launching of a new website for the Online Readings in Psychology and Culture. The site is at a new URL: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/orpc The site is now hosted on the Grand Valley State University website using technology supplied by the University of California’s BePress system. The switch…

3rd Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience http://culturalneuroscience.isr.umich.edu/home.htm   July 9-20, 2012 Center for Culture, Mind, and the BrainUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan   Co-Directors: Shinobu Kitayama (kitayama@umich.edu)Carolyn Yoon (yoonc@umich.edu)  Application Deadline:  March 15, 2012 We invite you to apply to attend the third annual Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.…

We are proud to present the IACCP PhD Winter School, the second instalment of a new program sponsored by IACCP. We held the first Regional PhD Summer School in Istanbul, Turkey during the last Regional Conference in 2011. It was a major success, with 40 students from all over the world interacting and planning research.…

The results of the 2012 Election are in! Officers President-Elect: Patricia Greenfield, University of California-Los Angeles, USA Secretary General: Willliam Gabrenya, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Deputy Secretary General: David Sam, University of Bergen, Norway Treasurer (an appointed position): Sharon Glazer, Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland, USA Continuing Officers: Kwok Leung, Hong Kong,…

Shihui Han of Peking University (Èü©‰∏ñËæâ, Âåó‰∫¨Â§ßÂ≠¶ÂøÉÁêÜÁ≥ª) will be the editor.   For details see: http://www.springer.com/psychology/klinische+psychologie/journal/40167