Society for General Psychology

Division 1: Society for General Psychology is concerned with creating coherence among psychology's diverse specialties by encouraging members to incorporate multiple perspectives from psychology's subdisciplines into their research, theory, and practice. Division 1 welcomes membership from academic scientists, professional practitioners, and psychologists whose main concern is the public interest. Division membership includes a subscription to its quarterly journal, Review of General Psychology.

President

Dean K. Simonton, PhD, University of California, Davis

Secretary

Robin L. Cautin, PhD, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

Journals

Review of General Psychology (quarterly)
Editor: Douglas K. Candland, PhD, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

Newsletter

The General Psychologist
Editor: Gina M. Brelsford, PhD, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA

Division-sponsored publications

Pioneers in Psychology series — Pioneers IV (Greg Kimble and Michael Wertheimer, Editors) was published in 2000; Pioneers V (Greg Kimble and Michael Wertheimer, Editors) was published in 2003; Pioneers VI (Donald Dewsbury, Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., and Michael Wertheimer, Editors) was released in 2006. All volumes are published simultaneously by APA in Washington, DC, and Erlbaum in Mahwah, NJ.

Read about Division 1 in the Monitor

Rediscover psychology's pioneers
Division 1 is working on a sixth volume of its popular "Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology" book series.

The Society for General Psychology is conducting its Year 2012 awards competition, including the William James Book Award for a recent book that serves to integrate material across psychological subfields or to provide coherence to the diverse subject matter of psychology, the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for a Career Contribution to General Psychology, the George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article in General Psychology, and the Arthur W. Staats Lecture for Unifying Psychology, which is an American Psychological Foundation Award managed by the Society. In addition, there is an award for graduate students: The Anne Anastasi General Psychology Graduate Student Award.

The Society for General Psychology encourages the integration of knowledge across the subfields of psychology and the incorporation of contributions from other disciplines. The Society is looking for creative synthesis, the building of novel conceptual approaches, and a reach for new, integrated wholes. A match between the goals of the Society and the nominated work or person will be an important evaluation criterion. Consequently, for all of these awards, the focus is on the quality of the contribution and the linkages made between diverse fields of psychological theory and research.

Division 1 Administrative Office
American Psychological Association
750 First St, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
Telephone: (202) 216-7602
Fax: (202) 218-3599
Email: Keith Cooke