October 18, 2019 6:54 pm
The 2019 AASP Summer School was held in July 07-10, 2019, at Institute of Ethnology (IOE), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. In total there were 36 applicants from different Asian countries and others (including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Japan, China, Marcus, Australia and Taiwan) who were exposed to edge-cutting and insightful lessons from five excellent international... View Article
October 18, 2019 6:39 pm
AASP-IALSP Workshop on “Narratives of Identity: Bridging the Divides” The Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP) and the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP) have a long-standing Memorandum of Understanding to exchange symposia at one another’s conferences. Links between leading scholars in the two organizations have deepened to the extent where “Narratives... View Article
October 18, 2019 6:32 pm
Serving the Underserved in the Tropics: Making a Difference with Positive Psychology On 29 June 2016 the United Nations celebrated the first ever International Day of the Tropics. The Tropics covers only 40% of the world’s surface area and is home to 40% of the world’s population, and 55% of the world’s children under... View Article
October 18, 2019 6:18 pm
AASP SGM “Wisdom Psychology” The First Small-Scale Group International Meeting on Wisdom Psychology, of which the theme is Diversity in Wisdom: Insights from Psychology, was successfully held in international lecture hall, the first floor of Tin Ka Ping south building in old campus of Nanjing normal university on October 27-28, 2018. The conference was hosted... View Article
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
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
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
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
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
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
