The Association for Psychological Science (APS) is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1988 to advance psychological science and its representation as a science on the national level. The Association’s mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching and the improvement of human welfare.
APS members include the nation’s foremost psychological scientists and academics, clinicians, researchers, teachers, and administrators. Members cover the entire spectrum of basic and applied psychological science. Members are typically scientists and academics at a university or college, though many are employed in industry, foundations or government. Psychological Scientists conduct basic, applied and clinical research. In studying the links between health and behavior, they address such topics as brain and behavior, child development, cognition, stress and heart disease, aging, mental illness, and substance abuse.
APS publishes several journals (Psychological Science, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Clinical Psychological Science, and the Observer member magazine), holds an annual meeting, disseminates psychological science research findings to the general public, and works with policymakers to strengthen support for psychological science.
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