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The Society for General Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Division 1 (The Society for General Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry) promotes the creation of coherence among psychology’s diverse evidence based specialties, other scientific disciplines and the humanities. It encourages analysis of the merits and challenges of bridging concepts, methods, and theories. The Division seeks to foster understanding of individual and social life in the nexus of historical, societal, cultural, genetic, neural and other biological processes. Members include students, researchers, scholars, practitioners and public interest psychologists; they receive a subscription to the Division’s quarterly journal, Review of General Psychologyopens in new window ®and to its Newsletter, The General Psychologistopens in new window, and are eligible for Division grants.

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Publications

Journals

Review of General Psychologyopens in new window® (quarterly)

Newsletter

The General Psychologistopens in new window

Division-sponsored publications

“Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology” book series

  • Volume I, published in 1991.

  • Volume II, published in 1996.

  • Volume III, published in 1997.

  • Volume IV, published in 2000.

  • Volume V, published in 2003.

  • Volume VI, published in 2006.

  • Volume VII, published in 2011.

Volumes II-VI are published simultaneously by APA in Washington, D.C., and Erlbaum in Mahwah, N.J. Volume VII is published by Psychology Press, a part of Taylor & Francis Group in London.

Contact information

Membership related inquiries

APA Division Engagement
750 First St, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
Telephone: (202) 336-6013

All other Division 1 inquiries

Pat King, administrative officer

Last updated: July 2025Date created: 2008

Division Meetings