Affiliate Membership In the early years of the Association membership was restricted to European social psychologists, whereby—according to the original Standing Orders—Europe was deemed to refer to a geographical area. Given the context in which the Association was created and given the goals set for the Association this decision was perfectly …
In 2008 the Association decided to change its name from the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) to the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). What’s in a name? some might feel. Why did it take so long? others might think. It is interesting to observe that the issue of the name of the Association is in fact not …
Language does not seem to be a hot issue nowadays—English comes natural to most of us—but it is important to recognize that such was not always the case. As mentioned earlier, during the very first conferences preceding the actual foundation of the Association most of the papers presented were in English, but some were in French. And when the …
As the graph below shows the size and the composition of the membership of the Association is radically different from what it looked like in the early years. In 1968 the Association had 62 members. Currently, (early 2017) it has 1170 members. Although part of this growth is the result of the addition of two membership categories that did not …
From Specialised Seminars to Small Group and Midsize Meetings Already in the early years ‘specialized seminars,’ as they were then called, were being organized. These can be considered the pre-runners of what later became the small group and medium size meetings. The early specialized seminars were few in number, partly because of the limited …