LevelFile
Ref NoTAJ/01/05/13
TitleEuropean Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) Sussex Committee Meeting 1981
Date1980-1981
Extent1- folder
DescriptionFile contains mostly typed correspondence and documents concerning European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP).

Details include:

General committee business
Candidates for new committee (April 81)
Dates, venue, agenda
Applications for membership
Ballot for new members of committees
Changes to Articles of Association.
FormatTextual Material
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AccessStatusOpen
Location16: Wellcome Library
TermSocial psychology
AdminHistoryIn 1963, visiting American scholars, John Lanzetta and Luigi Petrullo, under the impression that Europe's social psychologists needed to be brought together, established a Planning Committee, with the help of which Lanzetta convened a "European Conference on Experimental Social Psychology" at Sorrento . According to Jozef Nuttin's report, of the 28 participants, 21 came from eight European countries, two from Israel, the other five being Americans, four of them visiting scholars and the fifth Ben Willerman (a former MIT assistant of Kurt Lewin's) as representative of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). SSRC from then on became a kind of foster agency for the European-Association-to-be. John Lanzetta also used the Sorrento Planning Committee (consisting of M. Mulder, R. Pages, H. Tajfel, R. Rommetveit and J. Thibaut) to prepare and submit a more ambitious "Proposal for Contributions to the Development of Experimental Social Psychology in Europe.' This "Proposal,' submitted to SSRC for financial support, contained in outline some of the future objectives of the EAESP: a further European Conference, a first summer school, the idea of an exchange program within Europe, specialized seminars, etc.

The next of three steps, leading from the Association's conception (in 1963) to its birth (in 1966), was a "Committee on Transnational Social Psychology,' appointed by SSRC in 1964 and chaired by Leon Festinger. Its task was "the stimulation of international cooperation and developments in experimental social psychology" . Two major elements of the "Proposal" were approved and supported by the SSRC Committee: a second European Conference and a first summer school.
For a complete history of the EAESP visit http://www.eaesp.org/about/history.htm
RulesDescription compiled in line with the following standard
ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description
ArchNoteCompiled by Mike Maskill BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre.
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