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Message from the President-Elect

October 18, 2019 6:10 pm Professor Sylvia Xiaohua ChenHong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong It is my great honor to serve the Asian Association of Social Psychology as President-Elect. As I undertake my first task, putting together this issue of the newsletter in collaboration with its editor and South Asia regional representative Roomana N. Siddiqui, I find myself in a... View Article

Report of Secretary General

October 18, 2019 5:27 pm Professor Li LiuBeijing Normal University, China Currently AASP has 1309 members from various countries with maximum members from China (525), followed by Japan (166), Philippines (148), Indonesia (77) and South Korea (43). In the past 12 months, three Small Group Meetings (SGM) were funded by AASP. Organizers of these SGMs are encouraged to edit a... View Article

Report on 2019 Taipei Conference

October 18, 2019 4:57 pm The 13th Conference of AASP was held at Academia Sinica, Taiwan (July 11-13, 2019) on the theme “Consolidating the future of Culture-Oriented Psychology: Progress and achievements”. It was a well attended conference with more than 600 delegates from across 20 countries in attendance. The conference was supported financially by the Academia Sinica and Taiwan Ministry... View Article

Message from the President

September 6, 2019 4:19 am Professor Sylvia Xiaohua ChenHong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Dear Members of AASP It is my great honor to serve the Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP) as President of the Association. The AASP was founded in 1995 in an attempt to create a “third force” in social psychology, with the first and second forces being... View Article

AASP Summer School Report, Auckland, 22-25 Aug, 2017

June 17, 2019 6:32 pm (by Itesh Sachdev, Principal)  As outlined in the previous newsletter,  the AASP Summer School in Auckland (Aug, 2017) was attended by 19 students from several different Asian countries and others (including Indonesia, China, Philippines, Germany and so on) . They were broken up into four research streams led by an international team of social psychologists. ... View Article

Call for Nominations

March 13, 2019 2:07 am The Michael Harris Bond Award for Early Research Contributions   Michael Harris Bond has worked in Asia for almost four decades. ​To commemorate his many significant contributions to Asian social psychology, a group of his friends and former students have set ​up an endowment fund with AASP for the Michael Harris Bond Award for Early Research Contributions. One award will be given every two years. Eligibility criteria for the award are as follows: ​- The awardee... View Article

AASP Small Group Meeting: Hong Kong, 2019

December 12, 2018 8:14 pm The Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP) is pleased to announce a Small Group Meeting on “Narratives of Identity: Bridging the Divides in a Multicultural World – an AASP-IALSP Task Force” from July 7-9, 2019 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Kowloon. The meeting is co-hosted by the International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health... View Article

AASP Small Group Conference: Australia, 2019

December 12, 2018 8:03 pm Supported by the Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP), the 2019 Small Group Conference Serving the Underserved in the Tropics: Making a Difference with Positive Psychology will be held from June 28-29, 2019 at the beautiful Townsville Campus of James Cook University, Australia. You can also join the conference at JCU Cairns campus, Australia or... View Article

Call for 2019 AASP conference papers

December 12, 2018 7:11 pm We are currently accepting submissions of abstracts for 2019 AASP conference in Taiwan (10-13 July, 2019). The submissions include symposium, paper (oral presentation) and poster. Please submit via the conference website. Delegates who require an early confirmation of acceptance for visa application purposes must submit their abstracts by the 30th of November, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be... View Article