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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…

NEW Abstract Submission Deadline:   February 4, 2011 Submission Categories include paper, poster and symposium. You are also encouraged to submit in the following categories: Round-table discussion: Consist of papers around a theme that will draw a focused audience. Authors will make very short presentations (5 minutes) and open the floor for interactive discussions. Teachers’ panel: Panel participants…

Center for Culture, Mind, and the BrainUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan July 18-29, 2011 http://culturalneuroscience.isr.umich.edu/home.htm Co-Directors:  Shinobu Kitayama (kitayama@umich.edu)Carolyn Yoon (yoonc@umich.edu) Application Deadline:  March 15, 2011 We invite you to apply to attend the second annual Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. SICN is a two-week program that…

I would like to complete my archive of Bulletins (Newsletters), then digitize the entire collection for posterity.  I’m missing some issues from the 1990s, 1980s and 1970s.  If you have any of these issues, I would very much like to have them or borrow them for scanning. 1967 (no vol) #2, 3, 51972 (6) #1,…