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 Minoru KarasawaNagoya University, Japan Dear Members of AASP It is my great privilege to serve the Asian Association of Social Psychology as its 15th President. I am thankful for this opportunity to carry on the legacy that past presidents and executive officers have built and developed, and to further our mission in the years... 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
December 12, 2018 8:14 pm
The Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP) is pleased to announce a Small Group Meeting on “Narratives of Identity: Bridging the Divides in a Multicultural World – an AASP-IALSP Task Force” from July 7-9, 2019 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Kowloon. The meeting is co-hosted by the International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health... View Article
December 12, 2018 8:03 pm
Supported by the Asian Association of Social Psychology (AASP), the 2019 Small Group Conference Serving the Underserved in the Tropics: Making a Difference with Positive Psychology will be held from June 28-29, 2019 at the beautiful Townsville Campus of James Cook University, Australia. You can also join the conference at JCU Cairns campus, Australia or... View Article
