Proceedings of the fifty-second annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, September 11 and 12, 1944.

Abstract

The eighth joint meeting of the Council of Directors and Board of Editors was held on Sunday, Sept. 10, 1944 at which time reports on editorial and business policies were discussed.A report from Harold Schlosberg, who has been editing the Psychology News Letter for the Office of War Information, was presented at the joint meeting of Council and Editors. The report will be printed in the Psychology and the War section of an early issue of the Psychological Bulletin.The Council of Directors has prepared the following statement as a result of a discussion of channels of publication: The Council of Directors of the American Psychological Association calls the attention of psychologists to the importance of the media chosen for the publication of articles and studies of interest to the profession. Many university press publications and university series are distributed only to a few hundred libraries and seldom reach all professional psychologists, These publications often escape indexing and abstracting and are lost to the history of psychology. On the other hand, the Journals and Monographs of the Association place material directly in the hands of thousands of professional psychologists.The Board of Editors has elected H. S. Langfeld as Acting Chairman to serve in place of Walter S. Hunter, Chairman, who desired relief in order to devote his time to the Applied Psychology Panel of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.Walter S. Hunter was reelected as Editor of the Psychological Abstracts bj' the Electoral Board for the term beginning Jan. 1, 1946. Council on Feb. 8, 1944 voted an appropriation of $400.00 to cover railroad fare and pullman for attendance of the Board of Editors and Business Manager of Publications at a meeting at a time other than that of the Annual Meeting.

The origin of psychological species: History of the beginnings of American Psychological Association divisions.

“…The enactment procedures called for the bylaws to take effect at the 1945 APA meeting. At that time, the AAAP ceased to be a separate organization (Olson, 1944; Wolfle, 1946 /1997).…”

“…The section of the bylaws on divisions listed 19 charter divisions (see Table 2). Asterisks appeared by the listing of the Psychometric Society and SPSSI, indicating that those divisions were pending acceptance from those organizations (Olson, 1944). The final structure shows the following changes from the structure listed in the ballot.…”

The founding of the American Psychologist: The professional journal that wasn't.

“…The new bylaws were circulated to the memberships of the APA and AAAP in early 1944, and were approved by the AAAP in July and by the APA in September. The enactment procedures called for the bylaws to take effect with the 1945 meeting of the APA, at which time the AAAP would cease to exist as a separate organization and would thus become part of the new divisional structure of the APA (Olson, 1944; Wolfle, 1946).…”

A history of Division 6 (behavioral neuroscience and comparative psychology): Now you see it. now you don't. Now you see it.

“…The results of these rankings were used to propose a modified divisional structure, with a hierarchical arrangement led by Divisions 1 (General) and 2 (Teaching). When the new APA bylaws were adopted in 1944, they incorporated 19 charter divisions, including Division 6, the Division of Physiological and Comparative Psychology, which was formed by combining the originally proposed Divisions 2 and 13 (Olson, 1944).…”

“…New divisions could be formed on petition from 50 or more associates and fellows. Divisions could be dissolved when the number of members fell below 50 or if two thirds of the total membership of the division recommended dissolution (Olson, 1944).…”