Sixteenth International Congress Of Applied Psychology

"Since its first meeting in Geneva in 1920, the International Association of Applied Psychology has held congresses in various cities in Europe at about three-year intervals. This year the sixteenth such meeting was held in Amsterdam. Approximately 1300 people, from 40 countries, attended the congress. In addition to Western Europe and the United States, all of the Soviet Bloc countries were represented as well as such remote places as Hong Kong, Australia, Argentina, and Iceland. The format of the meeting included symposia and paper sessions. There were fourteen of the former, each lasting three hours, and 25 of the latter, each having seven scheduled papers. All of these sessions took place during three days of the meeting. On a fourth, intermediate day, participants could select one of 44 different "working groups" each in a different institution in the Netherlands. Almost without exception these visits were presentations of their work by research and practicing psychologists in a wide variety of places, e.g., the Ministry of Defense, a psychiatric institution, university psychological and physiological laboratories, industrial companies, prisons, and so on. There were four special sessions scheduled so that all participants in the congress could hear invited speakers including the president of the IAAP and three other eminent psychologists."--Introduction.