Report: Danubian Meetings of Psychologists

Abstract

Although close to the Volga this time, it was, nevertheless, a Danubian meeting. This designation has come to be traditionally applied to “workshop” discussions of psychologists from countries through which the Danube, a European waterway, flows. However, it was not limited to psychologists from these eight Danubian countries, but contacts were established and psychologists invited from various countries of the psychological world. The se Danubian meetings are attended by psychologists who want to promote and accelerate the integrating tendencies in this developing scientific domain. And this design is pursued not only in the lectures, but even more so in a particular manner in the corridors, real science lobbies. The se meetings involve a week of life in common, where in contentions for psychological truths, old friendships renew and new ones form. Such was the case at three Danubian meetings of psychologists held in Czechoslovakia (Smolenice 1969, 1972, and 1974), at the fourth one in Hungary (Visegrad in 1979) and at the most recent one in the USSR (Rostov in 1981).