XXIV International Congress of Psychology

August 28 - September 2, 1988, Sydney, Australia

The XXIV International Congress of Psychology was held at the Darling Harbor Convention Centre in Sydney, Australia, from August 28 through September 2, 1988. Sponsored by the International Union of Psychological Science, the congress was an official activity of the Australian Bicentennial. Approximately 3,800 psychologists from around the world attended the meeting. Of these, approximately 500 were from the United States. The congress program consisted of the following types of presentations: 

22 keynote addresses
60 invited speakers
65 symposia
64 young psychologists presentations
951 contributed papers
311 title-only presentations
37 workshops

The Congress was organized by a Congress Committee appointed by the Australian Psychological Society. Program suggestions were solicited from the member institutions of the IUPsyS.

Congress Proceedings

Bennett, A. F. & McConkey, K. M., Eds. (1990). Cognition in Individual and Social Contexts (Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Psychology of the International Union of Psychological Science)

Lovibond, P. F. & Wilson, P. H., Eds. (1990). Clinical and Abnormal Psychology (Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Psychology of the International Union of Psychological Science

Luszcz, M. A. & Nettelbeck, T., Eds. (1990). Psychological Development: Perspectives Across the Life Span (Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Psychology of the International Union of Psychological Science

Pfister, H. P., Fallon, B. J. & Brebner, J., Eds. (1990). Advances in Industrial Organizational Psychology (Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Psychology of the International Union of Psychological Science

Vickers, D & Smith, P. L., Eds., (1990). Human Information Processing: Measures, Mechanisms, and Models (Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress of Psychology of the International Union of Psychological Science) (v. 2).