News from the Union
Year End Message From Saths Cooper 2014
Publish Date: 5 Jan, 2015
Saths Cooper highlights the IUPsyS activities and impacts during 2014 in his year end messageRead More
Call for 2016 Awards Nominations
Publish Date: 1 Jan, 2015
The IUPsyS has great pleasure in announcing the call for the 2016 awards nominations. The deadline for submission has been extended to 31 May 2015. The awards are as follows: Major Advancement in Psychological Science Prize Young Investigator Awards Achievement Against the Odds Award Lifetime Career Award Further...Read More
IUPsyS and its Partners Conducts Workshop on Psychological Intervention after Disasters (PIAD)
Publish Date: 15 Dec, 2014
IUPsyS and its partners conducted a workshop on psychological intervention after disasters (PIAD) on 8 – 11 December 2014 in Mianyang, China. The workshop was the third in a series of similar workshops organized by the Union dealing with psychological research and practice concerning disasters, and how individuals and...Read More
The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize 2014 Awarded to the Canadian Geneticist Michael J. Meaney.
Publish Date: 12 Dec, 2014
The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize 2014 was awarded to the Canadian geneticist Michael J. Meaney. He has shown how (negative) experiences with the immediate environment in early life exert an influence on human development via "methylation" of the genome - a rather stable but malleable change of the "readability" of particular...Read More
Workshop on Psychological Intervention after Disasters (PIAD) on 8 – 11 December 2014 in Mianyang, China.
Publish Date: 8 Dec, 2014
The IUPsyS and its partners is conducting a workshop on psychological intervention after disasters (PIAD) on 8 – 11 December 2014 in Mianyang, China. The workshop is the third in a series of similar workshops organized by the Union dealing with psychological research and practice concerning disasters, and how individuals and...Read More
World Health Organization: Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Publish Date: 20 Oct, 2014
IUPsyS is psychology’s international organization in Official Relations with the WHO and these were renewed in January 2014. In this capacity IUPsyS was appointed to the International Advisory Group (IAG) for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders in 2006 and Secretary General, Dr Ann Watts, currently...Read More
Call for Nominations for Treasurer
Publish Date: 14 Oct, 2014
The International Union of Psychological Science has issued a call for nominations for the position of Treasurer. The Treasurer of the Union works with the Secretary General to carry out the principal financial administrative functions of the Union. Nominations are due by January 31, 2015; however, earlier nominations are...Read More
2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded to Neuroscientist and two Psychologists
Publish Date: 6 Oct, 2014
Saths Cooper, President of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), paid tribute to neuroscientist John O'Keefe and psychologists May‐Britt and Edvard I Moser for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an inner GPS in the brain. O'Keefe's pioneering work in 1971 was...Read More
Workshop on Psychological Intervention after Disasters (PIAD) in the Asia-Pacific Region Mianyang, Sichuan, China, December 8-11, 2014
Publish Date: 20 Sep, 2014
Deadline Extended to 20 October 2014 The overall aim is to use existing IUPsyS experience and its access to international scientific and applied expertise on resilience in the face of stressful and traumatic events to help researchers, educators and practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region to increase their understanding of...Read More
APA-IUPsyS Global Mental Health Fellowship
Publish Date: 30 Aug, 2014
Psychologists with research experience and leadership in areas related to the WHO Mental Health Action Plan are invited to consider a 1-year Fellowship working in Geneva, Switzerland at WHO headquarters in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. The final approval of funding for the program will be confirmed in...Read More