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Fall_2004 Volume_39 Numbers_1-4 The Psychologist A publication of the Society for General Psychology Division ONE of the American Psychological Association TABLE OF CONTENTS APA Committee on Animal Research and Experimentation (Nancy Dess)………………….……..18 1. DIVISIONAL NEWS International Adventures in Psychology (Frances M. Culbertson)………………………………..20 Editorial (Harold Takooshian, Richard Velayo)……………....2 Celebrating 75 years of excellence Division Officers and chairs…………………………………….3 (Takooshian, Salovey, Denmark) ………………….….21 Minutes: August 2003 China, August 2004 (Nancy F. Russo) ……………………..22 (Michael Wertheimer)……………………………………..3 Membership Application …………………………….............23 Minutes: August 2004 (Michael Wertheimer)………………...6 APA Council report: February 2004 (Michael Wertheimer) …………………………………….8 Editorial APA Council report: August 2004 The adage tells us (Michael Wertheimer)……………………………………10 “No one is irreplaceable.” True? Historian’s Report 2004 (Donald Dewsbury)………………..12 Not always. After Fellows Committee Report many years as the (Harold Takooshian) …………………………………….12 Editor of The General Psychologist, Alan Boneau in 2003 made good on his 2. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR MEMBERS years-long warning that the Society must find a new TGP Editor. Since Alan’s last issue in Fall 2003, the Call for Award Nomination for 2005 Society has been without its Newsletter to (Nancy F. Russo)………………………………………...12 communicate news to its thousands of members. One-by-one, two colleagues kindly volunteered to edit Call for Fellow Nominations for 2005 TGP, but then each had to withdraw before producing (Harold Takooshian)……………………………………..13 an issue. In view of the two-fold importance of the activities of our Society, and the need for its Call for Programs 2005 (Richard Meegan)………………….14 Newsletter, we two asked the Society’s Executive 2005 APA apportionment ballots (Sarah Jordan) ………….14 Committee if we could edit this Fall 2004 special issue of TGP, to publish the year’s accumulated news and New APA division on Human-Animal Studies announcements. That is what you see here, a year’s (Scott Plous) ……………………………………………..14 worth of news and announcements in an e-only format (no hardcopy distribution). Meanwhile, three New APA division on Trauma Psychology points for you to consider here: (1) If you are not yet (Bob Geffner) …………………………………………….14 on the Society’s new listserver, be sure to contact Editor search: International Journal of Psychology Matthew at [email protected]. (2) If you are a (Bruce Overmier)………………………………………...14 generalist who would consider becoming the regular Editor of TGP in 2005, the Society’s officers will love Join the Society’s listserver (Matthew Goodwin) …………..15 you, and we will help you to give it a try. This is a wonderful chance for a generalist to build on Alan Psychological Science Agenda on-line (Merry Bullock)…...15 Boneau’s legacy, to solicit articles from leading colleagues that would not appear in more specialized Free Access to APA databases through 2004 periodicals. (3) We hope you savor this TGP special (Gary van den Bos)……………………………………...15 issue—enjoy the past news, benefit from the announcements, and find the activities and photos of 3. GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY ACTIVITIES IN 2004 interest. If you see Alan Boneau, tell him he’s Salute to Raymond J. Corsini irreplaceable. (Michael Wertheimer) …………………………………..15 Enjoy, Symposium on IRBs (Kurt Salzinger) ………………………17 Richard S. Velayo, Pace University, & Harold Takooshian, Fordham University The Psychologist Volume 39, nos. 1 - 4, 2004 page 2 Harold Takooshian, Fordham University Society of General Psychology, Officers and ([email protected]) Committees (2005) Awards Chair President Nancy Felipe Russo, Arizona State University Bonnie R. Strickland, University of Massachusetts ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Program Chair (2004) President-elect Jeremy Wolfe, Harvard University George W. Albee, Florida ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Program Chair (2005) Past-president Richard Meegan Peter Salovey, Yale University ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Listmaster Past-president (2003) Matthew S. Goodwin, Groden Center J. Bruce Overmier, University of Minnesota ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Council Representative Michael Wertheimer, University of Colorado ([email protected]) Minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting, August 6, 2003, 7:10 p.m. to 10:50 p.m. Treasurer: Neil Lutsky, Carleton College and of the ([email protected]) Business Meeting Secretary Friday, August 8, 2003, 10:05 a.m. to 10:53 a.m., Michael Wertheimer, University of Colorado of ([email protected]) The Society for General Psychology, Division One Members-at-large of the Wayne J. Camara, College Board American Psychological Association ([email protected]) Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada C. Alan Boneau, George Mason University ([email protected]) The August 2003 meeting of the Division One Executive Committee was attended by J. Bruce Nancy Felipe Russo, Arizona Sate University Overmier, President; Peter Salovey, President-Elect; ([email protected]) Bonnie R. Strickland, President Elect-Elect; Michael Wertheimer, Secretary and Council Representative; Historian Lee H. Matthews, Treasurer; Lynn Hasher, Awards Donald A. Dewsbury, University of Florida Chair; Susan Mineka, Member-at-Large; and Douglas ([email protected]) K. Candland, Journal Editor. Donald A. Dewsbury, Fellows Chair Historian, was also present during the last hour and a Harold Takooshian, Fordham University half of the meeting. Absent were Linda M. Bartoshuk, ([email protected]) Past President; and Frank Farley, Wendy M. Williams, and Wayne J. Camara, Members-at-Large of the Membership Chair Executive Committee. The August, 2003 business Mark E. Mattson, Fordham University meeting was attended by most of the same officers of ([email protected]) the division as well as by Harold Takooshian, Fellows Journal Editor Chair and member, Mary Reuder. The business Douglas K. Candland, Bucknell University meeting was devoted largely to approval of actions ([email protected]) and recommendations from the executive committee. Not all items on the agendas for the two meetings Newsletter Editors (temporary) could be dealt with during the limited time available Richard S. Velayo, Pace University for the meetings, so Past-President Bartoshuk, ([email protected]) President Overmier, President-Elect Salovey, and President-Elect-Elect Strickland were authorized to The Psychologist Volume 39, nos. 1 - 4, 2004 page 3 complete action on behalf of the division on items that August 9) further negotiations were undertaken in were not fully dealt with during the meetings but that connection with a new contract for publication of the require action in the near future. journal. The annual number of pages in the journal will probably need to be reduced somewhat and the After approval of the 2002 executive committee and subscription price increased, in an attempt to reduce business meetings' minutes as published in The the annual loss from the journal. The division was General Psychologist, Overmier reported that Bonnie urged to send a letter signed by the past president, R. Strickland had been elected as the new president- president, and president-elect to all members of the elect. This year elections will need to be held for the division, encouraging them to get their institutions to next president-elect and for a new member-at-large of subscribe to the journal. There was general the executive committee for the 2004-2006 term. In agreement that the journal continues to be excellent, the absence of 2003 convention program chairs David and that every effort should be made to have it Lubinsky, Nancy Segal, and Mary Lou Cheal, continue. Overmier reported that the division was allotted 13 substantive hours plus time for such activities as the A brief visit was made by two staff members from the social hour and business meeting (far fewer than the APA Science Directorate to the executive committee 40 or so total hours devoted to the division before the meeting, to update its members on current activities changes in the convention format last year). Salovey of that directorate that might be of interest to them; reported that no particular theme has been selected they also mentioned that Kurt Salzinger, current for the 2004 convention program for the division, and Executive Director for Science at APA Central Office, that Jeremy M. Wolfe at the Harvard Medical School is resigning as of December, 2003. A report was has agreed to serve as the Division One 2004 received from C. Alan Boneau, long-time editor of the convention program chair. A motion for division's newsletter, The General Psychologist; commendation of Bruce Overmier for the expeditious Boneau is resigning as editor with the third way he handled the affairs of the division during his (November) issue of the newsletter in 2003. There presidency was passed unanimously, with was extensive discussion of how to modify the enthusiasm. Officers appointed for the year include newsletter in the future (in part because of a paucity Dewsbury as historian, Takooshian as fellows chair, of appropriate material, due to the greatly decreased Wertheimer as secretary, Takooshian and Mark E. number of hours devoted to substantive division Mattson as membership co-chairs, Mineka as awards programming at the convention); among the more chair, Donald L. King as newsletter editor, and Mark viable suggestions was to limit the newsletter to twice