LevelFile
Ref NoTAJ/01/05/15
TitleEuropean Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) Summer Schools Committee Jan.1978 -Aug.1981
Date1978-1981
Extent1- folder
DescriptionFile contains mostly typed correspondence and documents concerning European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) Summer Schools.

Details include:

5th Summer school of EAESP 'The Cognitive Analysis of Socio-psychological Processes' at Aix-en-Provence 12 -31 July 1981
Administration

Financing of participants through various research groups (SSRC, ESF, NATO)

A copy (enclosed) of report on The Oxford Summer School 1-21 Aug.1976

Application to NATO

Henri Tajfel's to deliver 2-lectures at Summer School for NATO ASI series

Programme

Permission to reprint Henri Tajfel's chapter 'Experimental Studies of Intergroup Behaviour in Psychology Survey No.3 (Allen and Unwin, 1980) for Summer school/NATO book

Display of Henri Tajfel's book at summer school 'Identity and Instrumentality in Social Comparisons and Social Stereotypes'

Newsletter dated January 1981 advertising Aix summer school.

For a complete history of the EAESP please visit http://www.eaesp.org/about/history.htm
FormatTextual Material
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Location16: Wellcome Library
TermSocial psychology
Behaviour
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
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