Report on The XXIV International Congress of Psychology

Abstract

Sponsored jointly by the International Union of Psychological Science and the Australian Psychological Society, this Congress was the first major international scientific gathering of the discipline of psychology in the southern hemisphere. The planning that was begun in 1980 after the Leipzig Congress finally brought together 3,600 delegates, 400 accompanying persons and 160 student helpers. Overall, there was an official involvement of more than 4,000 people from 50 countries. The size, scope and overall quality of the Scientific Program and the Workshops confirmed an early promise of success and the fact that more than 2,000 of those who attended were overseas registrants ensured that the Scientific program would be rich and vaned. Registrants were able to choose from more than 2,500 separate presentations covering virtually every aspect of modem psychology to some degree, both in the scientific and professional domains.