February 9, 2018 8:16 pm
The main theme of the 13th biennial Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP) conference in Taipei, Taiwan, July 11-13, 2019, is “Consolidating the future of Culture-Oriented Psychology: Progress and achievements”, and hosted by Academia Sinica (Prof. Yuh-Huey Chou, Prof. Kung-Hui Yeh, and Prof. Jen-Ho Chang), and National Taiwan University (Prof. Bor-Shiuan Cheng). The 2019 AASP conference’s theme... View Article
February 6, 2018 4:37 pm
After the AASP conference in Auckland last year, some members of the executive committee initiated a discussion about how the AASP (and AJSP) could increase their presence on social media. We recognised early on in our discussions that we needed more information about AASP members’ social media behaviours and attitudes before we could go upon... View Article
February 6, 2018 3:55 pm
Susumu Yamaguchi completed his successful term as Editor-in-Chief of Asian Journal of Social Psychology (AJSP) last December 2017. The committee to search for the next Editor-in-Chief has recommended Allan B. I. Bernardo (University of Macau; Past President of AASP) to take over the editorship. The new Editor-in-Chief has decided to share chief editor duties with... View Article
February 1, 2018 8:04 pm
The 12th Conference of AASP was held at Massey University in Albany (on the North Shore of Auckland) August 26-28, 2017. AASP’s “Summer” School was hosted there as well Aug 22-25 (it was actually a winter school as August is winter in the Southern hemisphere). The conference was attended by over 300 international delegates from... View Article
June 26, 2017 8:47 am
Message from the President During the first half of 2017, AASP energies and resources were focused on preparing for the Biennial Conference to be held in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2017. Our members, including our student members, focused on preparing abstracts for the oral and poster presentations, and those whose abstracts were accepted are now busy finalizing their respective presentations.... View Article
January 2, 2017 11:15 am
As 2016 comes to a close, I would like to take time to report on some of the recent activities that the AASP had undertaken for its members and target communities of social psychology scholars in Asia. Many of the activities of the AASP implemented during the second half of 2016 arose from discussions during... View Article
July 29, 2016 8:16 pm
POSTED: 30 July 2016 The theme of the 12th biennial, 2017 AASP conference in Auckland, New Zealand, August 26-28 is “Making a Difference with Social Science: Teaching and Research that Addresses Social Issues and Cultivates Self Refinement”. Building from dialogues opened up by AASP’s Special Issues on Action-oriented and Applied Social Psychology in the Journal... View Article
July 23, 2016 4:45 pm
June 2016 Newsletter 17 from the President Allan B I Bernardo When 2016 started, AASP saw a dramatic rise in its membership. Because of the successful attendance in the 2015 Conference in Cebu combined with the new structure of membership fees, the Association’s membership numbers are at its highest in a very long time. The... View Article
January 13, 2016 6:12 pm
The Asian Association of Social Psychology has much to celebrate as 2015 comes to a close. Twenty years after the very inaugural AASP Conference in Chung-Chi College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the AASP held what is perhaps the biggest ever AASP Conference in Cebu City, the Philippines. As President of the AASP,... View Article
August 10, 2015 9:59 pm
James Liu’s Final Newsletter Address as AASP President. Time flies, and I will soon be coming to the end of my term as AASP President. I will happily hand over Presidency of the Association to my dear friend and colleague Allan Bernardo of the University of Macau. Allan and I will formally welcome Emiko Kashima of LaTrobe University, who was the sole nominee... View Article
