Association for Psychological Science
The Association for Psychological Science (APS) was founded in 1988 as the American Psychological Society and the second major psychological organization in the United States (alongside the American Psychological Association ). It was given its current name on January 1, 2006 in order to emphasize the scientific mission and the international scope more clearly.
Today it has 18,500 members from the United States and abroad. As a scientific specialist organization, it unites primarily for basic and application-oriented researchers in the field of psychology . Since 2002, outstanding international psychologists have been increasingly recruited as members under the motto “Psychology around the world”.
The APS publishes five journals: Psychological Science , Current Directions in Psychological Science , Psychological Science in the Public Interest , Perspectives on Psychological Science, and Clinical Psychological Science . It also publishes the monthly magazine Observer .
Every year since 1989 a congress has been held as the “APS Annual Convention”, and in 2008 as the 20th anniversary in Chicago.
In 2016, annual membership fees were US $ 216 for ordinary members, US $ 122 for junior researchers (e.g. PostDoc), and US $ 39 to 80 for undergraduate students.
