AASP has increased its outreach through various e-portal. At the Taipei conference livestreaming was done of three keynote addresses (Kitayama, Gelfand, and Hwang), the presidential address (Choi), and the talk of one featured speaker (Carlo) via our Facebook and Twitter account. The initiative was successful with around 200 people from around... Keep Reading
Misumi Award Chang, C. T., Lee, Y. K., & Cheng, Z. H. (2017). Baby face wins? Examining election success based on candidate election bulletin via multilevel modeling. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 20(2), 97-112. Dou, K., Wang, Y. J., Li, J. B., Li, J. J., & Nie, Y. G. (2018). Perceiving high social mindfulness during interpersonal... Keep Reading
Special Issue of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology on “Collective Remembering of Living Historical Memories” & Special Issue of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology on “The Psychology of Economic Inequality and Social Class” Keep Reading
The middle of 2019 brought several good news about the growth of the Asian Journal of Social Psychology (AJSP). In June, the 2018 CiteScores (3-year impact factors) published by Elsevier and Scopus showed the CiteScore of AJSP rising to 1.30, which is highest Citescore since the citation index was compiled. The CiteScore ranks the AJSP at the... Keep Reading
The Korean Social and Personality Psychological Association (KSPPA) held its biannual conference on May 25th at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea. A symposium, titled “Trends and Challenges of Research on Personal and Social Identity” included three presentations that gave an overview of identity research and discussed empirical... Keep Reading
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... Keep Reading
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 of Identity:... Keep Reading
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 the age of five years old. By 2050, some 50% of the world’s population and close to 60% of the... Keep Reading
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 and... Keep Reading
Asian Association of Social Psychology
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 reflective mood. Since I first attended an AASP conference in... Keep Reading
Report of Secretary General 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 special... Keep Reading
2019 Conference at Taipei 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... Keep Reading
Message from the President It is my honor and great pleasure to serve AASP as President for the period of 2019-2021. Established in 1995, AASP has become one of the major psychology organizations in Asia with over 1,300 members from many parts of the world, including the Far East, South East Asia, India, Oceania, North America, and... Keep Reading
AASP Summer School Report, Auckland, 22-25 Aug, 2017 (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 b... Keep Reading
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 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 ... Keep Reading
