(Press-News.org) Washington, D.C. (March 12, 2024) — The Association for Psychological Science, the leading global organization dedicated to advancing scientific psychology for the benefit of science and society, is revamping its roster of regularly scheduled events to better foster global scientific collaboration and environmental sustainability.
Starting in 2025, APS will merge its Annual Convention and the biennial International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS). The new APS Annual Convention will rotate outside of North America every 3 years.
“By integrating our meetings, APS will produce powerful and effective global scientific events that reflect the richness and diversity of the entire psychological science community,” said APS Chief Executive Officer Robert Gropp. “This scientific meeting will provide greater accessibility, ensuring that attendees from all parts of the world can participate more easily in APS programs.”
APS will also be considering environmental sustainability in its event planning, Gropp added. These efforts include securing facilities that are close to public transportation, minimize their food waste and use renewable energy, he said.
As another step towards accessibility, sustainability and greater collaboration on a global scale, APS is launching a new APS Global Psychological Science Summit in October 2024. This online summit will offer an additional, and sustainable, avenue for scientific exchange and collaboration among psychological scientists. The program is focused on facilitating advances in global psychological science and will include workshops, roundtable discussions and opportunities for poster presentation. Submissions for workshops and posters will open in June, and more information will be available soon on the APS website.
These upcoming events advance three goals in APS’ strategic plan: strengthen the global psychological science community, make psychological science more meaningful in the public sphere and wisely and efficiently use resources to advance the organization’s mission.
Below is the schedule of the upcoming events.
May 23-26, 2024
Annual Convention, San Francisco
October 2024
NEW APS Global Psychological Science Summit, Virtual
May 22-25, 2025
Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
2026
Annual Convention, Europe, city and dates to be announced.
May 27-30, 2027
Annual Convention, Seattle
May 25-28, 2028
Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
The Association for Psychological Science is the scientific home of thousands of leading psychological science researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students from around the world. APS is dedicated to advancing scientific psychology across disciplinary and geographic borders and committed to disseminating psychological science to the public, incentivizing global collaboration among researchers, catalyzing the further development of psychological science, and promoting the application of psychological science to public policy.
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Association for Psychological Science announces new convention plan to foster global psychological research
2024-03-12
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