ISPPNews January 1992

January 1992 Vol. 3 (1)

Paul E. Schaffner, Editor
Psychology Dept.
Bowdoin College
Bruswick ME 04011 USA

Editor's Prerogative This issue of ISPPNews follows an unusually long passage of time since the previous issue. The first issue of the 1991-l992 series was delayed several weeks to accommodate news of the selection of a new Executive Director for the Society; and then a few weeks longer to accommodate my end-of-semester work backlog. In putting together this issue I also experienced my first-ever computer hard-drive "crash;" fortunately, my files were largely backed up so that little if any material was lost. If you expect to find something in this issue and don't, please let me know and/or resubmit it. Rosalind Lorwin comments below on the development of ISPP during the past 10 years, while she served us as Executive Director for two successive five-year terms. To all other formal and informal acknowledgements of her service, I include my own thanks to her for reliable, supportive cooperation in the production of ISPPNews. Working with her has been a true pleasure. and has contributed substantially to the creation and development of the newsletter. Thank you, Rosalind. Letter from the Executive Director Dear Fellow Members, My term as Executive Director is coming to an end. Looking back over the past years I feel the Society has established itself as a major force in the field of political psychology. The Journal is one of a kind, devoted exclusively to political psychology and reflecting the multidisciplinary character of the Society itself. The Summer Institute in Political Psychology, which held its first session this past July and August, will give new impetus to the field by training new professionals in political psychology each year. Our membership is active and, hopefully, expanding. A great deal has been accomplished by all those working in and for the ISPP over the past 10 years. I wish the new Executive Director and the Society continued success in the years to come. Cordially, Rosalind A. Lorwin New Executive Director & Central Offlce On January 1, 1992, George E. Marcus Professor of Political Science at Williams College, will assume the post of Executive Director of ISPP. The selection of a	new Executive Director has been the major preoccupation of the ISPP during the past year and represents the culmination of the Search Committee's efforts, with the approval of the Executive Committee and the Governing Council. Many thanks to Betty Glad, Chair of the Search Committee, and Committee members Fred Greenstein, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Joseph Montville, and Jeffrey Rubin With this change the central office of ISPP also moves across the United States to the campus of Williams College. Henceforth all Society business should be addressed to Professor George E. Marcus Executive Director, ISPP Political Science Department Williams College Williamstown, MA 01267 USA Society Officers for 1992-1993 The 1991 election of ISPP officers produced the following results: President-elect: Tom Bryder (Political Science, University of Copenhagen). Vice-Presidents-elect: Barbara Kellerman (Political Science, Farleigh Dickenson University) and Philip Tetlock (Psychology, University of California, Berkeley). Governing Council: Faye Crosby (Psychology, Smith College), Doris Graber (Political Science, University of Illinois, Chicago), Deborah Larson (Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles), Ruth Linn (Psychology Department, Haifa University), John McConahay (Public Policy, Duke University), Jos Meloen (Social Science Department, University of Leiden), Janusz Reykowsky (Psychology, Polish Academy of Science), and Alan Whittaker (International Relations & Psychology Departments, United States National Defense University). Fifteenth Annual Scientific Meeting, 1992 The Fifteenth Annual Scientific Meeting will be held in San Francisco, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel on Union Square, on July 4-8 1992, under the Presidency of John E. Mack. The theme of the meeting is "Bringing Political Psychology to Public Policy." San Francisco was the site of ISPP's 10th Anniversary meeting, in 1987. It was a wonderful conference, and our 15th promises to be equally rewarding. In a new
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addition to the Society's awards, the Alfred M. Freedman Prize for the best paper presented at the previous annual meeting will be awarded for first time, to the author of the best paper delivered at the Helsinki meeting last July. Program Chair for the San Francisco meeting Professor David G. Winter Department of Psychology The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1346 USA Conference Chair for the San Francisco meeting Dr. Cheryl Koopman Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine School of Medicine Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 USA Sixteenth Annual Scientific Meeting 1993 This meeting will be held in Boston, Massachusetts. 1992 Awards Committees President John Mack has appointed chairs of committees for the Society's annual awards. Award recipients will be honored at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco this July (see above). Please address suggestions for members on any committee, or for possible award recipients, to the appropriate chairperson. Lasswell Award Committee Professor Jeffrey Z. Rubin Program on Negotiation Harvard Law School 513 Pound Hal1 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Sanford Award Committee Harold H. Saunders Kettering Foundation 444 North Capitol St., N.W., Suite 408 Washington, D.C. 20001 USA Erikson Award Committee Professor Ole Holsti Department of Political Science Duke University. Durham, NC. 27706 USA 1992 Nominating Committee The Chair of the Society's Nominating Committee to select candidates to stand for election on the 1993 ballot is Ervin Staub. Please send suggestions directly to him (Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA). Fourteenth Annual Scientific Meeting 1991 Under the Presidency of Roberta Sigel, some 250 participants met in Helsinki Finland last July for ISPP's annual scientific conference. Participants came from 37 countries, representing Latin America, Scandinavia, the	Baltic states, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, the Middle East, New Zealand, Africa, South Asia, and the Soviet Union. All enjoyed the scholarly program and the beauty of Finland, and some joined in a post-meeting tour of Leningrad/St. Petersburg and Moscow as well. Many thanks to Program co-Chairs Martha Crenshaw and Tom Bryder, Conference Host Elina Haavio-Mannila, and Nita Pietila of Congress Management Systems. Tom Bryder sent along an informal retrospective on the Conference, most of which follows: "Before the actual meeting, there were several workshops on current political affairs and topical scientific concerns, and the conference itself opened in the beautiful aula of the University of Helsinki with invited speeches by the vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki, the Conference host Elina Haavio- Mannila, ISPP President Roberta Sigel, and Professor Raimo Vayrynen of the Political Science Department of the University of Helsinki .... A substantial part of [the program] dealt with feminism and the role of gender in the world, and as usual, there were many sessions on the theory and practice of conflict resolution. There were also sessions on political culture, political socialization and learning, environmentalism, foreign policy belief systems, authoritarianism, machiavellianism, terrorism, psychobiography, activism, political symbolism, language and communication, and the psychology of political economy .... "The Awards banquet was held at the WalHalla Restaurant on a tiny island in the archipelago of Helsinki. We arrived by boat on a sunny evening the day before the conference ended, and had a wonderful evening together with this year's Society award winners (see following item) .... "Like previous meetings of the ISPP held outside the USA, the Helsinki meeting showed that there is growing international scientific attention to the problems which political psychologists study. Thanks to Elina Haavio-Mannila's efforts and success in obtaining support to help scholars from third world countries and from countries without convertible currencies .... we managed to hear about research that otherwise would not have come to our attention .... "Next year's meeting will be held in San Francisco, and after that we will try Boston again. As we get a more nationally heterogeneous membership we may begin to consider altering the conference location more often in order to meet the letters of intent of the ISPP Constitution." 1991 ISPP Annual Awards The following Society awards were presented at the meeting in Helsinki: Robert E. Lane of Yale University received the Harold D. Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to Political Psychology. Richard Christie of Columbia University received the
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Nevitt Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Political Psychology. Deborah Larson of the University of California, Los Angeles received the Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award. Memorial Note: Silvan S. Tomkins, 1911-1991 William F. Stone contributed the following information on the passing of a personal friend and professional colleague: "Silvan Tomkins died on June 10,1991, at a hospital near his home in Strathmere, New Jersey. The son of a dentist, Tomkins lived his youth in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. His Ph.D. was in philosophy, from the University of Pennsylvania, and although he went to Harvard for post-doctoral study in that field, he found and was captivated by the psychology being practiced by Henry Murray and his staff at the Harvard Psychological Clinic. He was thus converted, and spent several years in that atmosphere, publishing on the TAT, psychopathology and other clinical subjects. He became a professor at Princeton, and the opportunity to spend a year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences allowed him to begin his magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness (Vol. 1,1962; Vol. 2,1963), that is widely credited with stimulating the present resurgence of interest in human emotion. "Because the thoughts on ideology and personality contained in his polarity theory were so pertinent to political psychology, Tomkins was invited to address the opening meeting of the ISPP in New York (1978); he also participated in meetings in Mannheim and Washington. The influence of his work in this area is still being felt through the recent rediscovery of the Polarity Scale (see Knight's chapter in John Robinson et al., Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes, Vol. 2, forthcoming). Also, he leaves us the heritage of a new theory of personality, script theory, which is described in Vol. 3 of Affect, Imagery, Consciousness (1991), and the fourth volume which will be published posthumously in 1992 [see New Books By Memabers, below]. "A memorial service was held on September 15th in Philadelphia, at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. Over one hundred friends and colleagues attended the all-day event, which included personal tributes by friends, neighbors, and by his son Mark and the showing of a video on Silvan's life. The afternoon session was devoted to a panel discussion of Tomkins' work. Speakers included E. Virginia Demos, Paul Ekman, David McShane, and Donald Nathanson. A meeting was held at which it was decided to support an Institute in Tomkins' name: For information write to Mark Tomkins, President, Silvan S. Tomkins Institute, P.O. Box 31, Strathmere, NJ 08248." Meetings of Other Professional Societies The Fourth Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics will occur March 27-	29,1992, in Irvine, California. For information about the conference, or about the Society itself, contact it at 714H Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052 USA. (202) 994-8167 FAX: (202) 994-1639. The Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association will be held May 26-31, 1992, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For further information contact the Society at Hampshire House, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA. (413) 5454617. FAX (413) 545-1640. The Twelfth Organization Development World Congress will be held July 14-18, 1992, in Vilnius, Lithuania. Contact Donald W. Cole, the O.D. Institute, 781 Beta Drive, Suite K, Cleveland OH 44143 USA. (216) 461-4333. The Third International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas will occur August 24-29, 1992, in Aalborg, Denmark. Its theme will be "European integration and the European mind: Cultural hegemony or dialogues of cultures." Contact Prof. Ulf Hedetoft, European Research Unit, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 2, 9220 Aalberg 0, Denmark. FAX: 45 9815 69 50. The Twenty Third International Congress of Applied Psychology will be held July 17 -22, 1994 in Madrid, Spain. A special interest area in political psychology is listed, participation is invited, and the earliest deadline is January 31, 1993. Contact the Organizing Committee Secretariat, Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos, Cuesta San Vicente 4 5⁰, 28008 Madrid-Spain. Journals Politics and the Individual: International Journal of Political Socialization and Political Psychology published its first issue in 1991. Its executive editors, editors, and editorial consultants include many ISPP members from (literally) around the world. For subscription information contact the publisher: Verlag Dr. R. Kräner, Postfach 13 20 51, 2000 HAMBURG 13, Germany. News From Members Klaus Boehnke and Wolfgang Frindle sent a retrospective account of the Second International Symposium on Contributions of Psychology to Peace, which took place September 16-18,1991, in Jena, Thuringa, Germany. Featured at the conference were presentations and discussions on the project "Global crises as macro-social stress: Individual and social coping strategies in cross-cultural comparison." R. W. Bloom offers a complimentary copy of his newsletter, "Political Psychology Notes." This is "a newsletter of opinion on national security, international affairs, and domestic political issues." Contact him at PSC 3 Box 15785, APO San Francisco, CA 96432-0006, USA.
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New Books by Members Editor's note: Short descriptions are offered in this section of new books authored or edited by ISPP members. In most cases authors or their publishers have submitted descriptive materials; I have quoted or paraphrased selections from these, with quotation marks as appropriate. In other cases my own summary is based on materials submitted by the authors or publishers. Authors: In addition to sending word to ISPPNews of new publications, please send a copy of your book to the book review editor of Political Psychology, where it may be critically reviewed. Jasper, James M. (1992). The Animal Rights Crusade. The Growth of a Moral Protest. The Free Press, 866 3rd Avenue, New York, NY 10022 USA. (212) 702-9805. Kreml, William P. (1991). Psychology, Relativism and Politics. New York University Press, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. (212) 998-2575. This book is an original political philosophy, one based on the psychological roots of the cognitive preferences between the analytic versus the synthetic cognition as originally argued over by Kant and Hegel and now applied to the modern dialectic, the deadlock of the American government and the psychological as well as material inequities of analytically designed governments such as that of the United States." Kreml, William P. (1991). Losing Balance: The De-Democratization of America. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, NY 10504 USA. "This book is a mid-range theoretical perspective on the inequities of the current governmental arrangement in America, noting the imbalances of the four classical dichotomies of 1) private to public sectors, 2) legal to political arenas of decision making, 3) anti-majoritarian to majoritarian political structures and 4) centripetal to centrifugal procedural arrangements. The book calls for a rebalancing of these pre-Constitutional imbalances as a necessary prelude to the reversal of a de-democratization of America." ISPPNews International Society of Political Psychology c/o George E. Marcus Department of Political Science Williams College Williamstown, MA 01267 USA	Kriesberg, Louis, Northrup, T. A., & Thorson, S. J. (Eds.) (1991). Intractable Conflicts and their Transformation. Syracuse Univ. Press, 1600 Jamesville Ave., Syracuse NY 13244-5160 USA. (315) 433-2597; FAX: 315-443-5545. ".... presents intractable conflicts as a domain of both research and strategic development. Through careful analysis of conflicts in a wide array of contexts, the contributors seek to develop theory concerning the causes, evolution, and transformations of intractability" Milburn, Michael A. (1991). Persuasion and Politics: Social Psychology and Public Opinion. Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 511 Forest Lodge Road, Pacific Grove, CA 93950 USA. (408) 373 0728. "Striking a balance between concerns of psychology and concerns of political science, Milburn's book applies theories and research from psychology to the analysis of why people feel as they do about political issues, how thinking about politics Influences an individual's opinions, how people's political attitudes change, and the role the mass media play in influencing opinions and political reasoning" Smith, M. Brewster (1991). Values, Self, and Society: Toward a Humanist Social Psychology. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ USA. (201) 932-2280. "This is a heavily edited selection from my writings since 1978, with a new head and tail, with several items relevant to political psychology." Tomkins, Silvan S. (1991). Affect, Imagery, Consciousness. Volume 3: The Negative Affects: Anger and Fear. New York: Springer Publishing Company, 536 Broadway, New York, NY 10012 USA. (212) 431-4370. Tomkins, Silvan S. (1992). Affect, Imagery, Consciousness. Volume 4: Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
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