SPSSI - Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

SPSSI

is an association of approximately 3000 psychologists, allied scientists, and others, who are interested in the application of research on the psychological aspects of important social issues to public policy solutions.

SPSSI News

The Summer Issue of The Forward Newsletter is now available online! To read it, please click here.
SAVE THE DATE: SPSSI's 2012 Conference will be June 22-24 at the Omni Hotel in Charlotte, NC. For more information, or to register please click here.
The 2012 joint SPSSI-EASP Small Group Conference on "Proactive Behavior Across Group Boundries" will be held on November 30-December 2, at Stony Brook, NY. A call for submissions has been issued.
SPSSI celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding on September 1, 1936. SPSSI's founding objectives were to (1) encourage research upon those psychological problems most vitally related to modern social, economic and political policies, and (2) help the public and its representatives to understand and to use contributions from the scientific investigation of human behavior in the formation of social policies. These objectives continue to guide SPSSI members into the 21st century.To celebrate these objectives, SPSSI is pleased to launch a major new web resource for social scientists, educators, policy-makers, and others interested in the science-policy-social action nexus: the "SPSSI Was There" interactive timeline.
SPSSI is featured in the June 2011 issue of the APA Monitor in an article "Psychology's Engine for Social Change: SPSSI (APA's Div.9) Celebrates 75 Years of Using Psychology to Push for Social Justice" by SPSSI historian Alexandra Rutherford. Click here to read more.
Congratulations and welcome to SPSSI's newest sustaining member Kerth O'Brien!
The complete digital library of the Journal of Social Issues, beginning with the premier 1945 issue, are now available for download at Wiley Online Library.
Help SPSSI promote our publications: JSI, ASAP and SIPR. New flyer available here.
SPSSI has been an accredited NGO at the United Nations since 1987. Learn more about our ongoing UN activities.
Join your colleagues on the SPSSI Listserv, where you can keep up with discussion and debate on social issues, and get announcements and updates of interest. This listserv is open to SPSSI members and non-members alike.

Featured Publications

JSI

Through the Journal of Social Issues, SPSSI is able to bring behavioral and social science theory, empirical evidence, and practice into focus on important human problems.

JSI is published quarterly. Each issue is devoted to a single topic, and available in electronic and print format.

ASAP

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy is an outlet of social science scholarship for social action and policy. It serves a global audience of policy makers and advocates as well as social scientists, students, and the public.

Articles are published electronically as soon as they are accepted and then printed at the end of every calendar year.

SIPR

Social Issues and Policy Review is an annual publication featuring high quality review articles on cutting-edge topics relevant to social issues and social policy.

SIPR has been in publication since 2007. Each issue includes both theoretical and empirical reviews of policy-relevant research.

For policy news, notes, event listings, and resources, check out the latest updates on the SPSSI Policy News Feed by clicking the RSS icon at the top left side of the SPSSI web page. If you are interested in having SPSSI-related policy information sent direct to your inbox, send an e-mail to “opt-in” to the Policy List.

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