American Psychologist

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doi: 10.1037/h0023619pmid: N/A

Titles and abstracts of papers and symposia are presented. Business meetings, presidential addresses, social functions, and a film program are announced. Indices of sponsored programs and participants are provided. A paper by A. R. Luria, XVIII International Congress of Psychology, outlines the program of the congress.

Luria, A. R.

doi: 10.1037/h0021261pmid: N/A

This document announces that for the first time in the history of our science an international congress of psychologists will be convened in the USSR. The XVIII International Congress of Psychology, organized by the Soviet Psychological Society under the auspices of the International Union of Scientific Psychology, will take an outstanding place among other congresses for the scope of the problems which will be discussed at it, as well as for the wide representation of psychologists of different countries who will participate in its work. It will also be distinguished for the character of its organization. The Congress will take place in Moscow between August 4 and 11, 1966. The programme of its plenary sessions will include, along with the opening speech of Prof. A. N. Leontiev, President of the Congress, three lectures which will be delivered by celebrated psychologists of different countries. Prof. Jean Piaget (Switzerland) will devote his lecture to the question of the place of psychology among other sciences; Prof. Neal Miller (USA) will consider the achievements of modern psychophysiology in the field of studying the problem of drives; Prof. A. A. Smirnov (USSR) will lecture on the ways of development of psychology in the Soviet Union. This document discusses the Congress in further detail.