|  From Atsushi Oshio:
Greetings from Japan Society of Personality Psychology (JSPP):
We are psychological researchers interested in diversity, individual differences, and developmental processes of individuality in human mind and conducting relevant empirical studies in Japan. Since the concept of individuality and individual differences is very basic to many areas of psychology, almost all members of the Society also belong to one or more of psychological associations in Japan, which currently number more than 30. We are trying to make an academic society that attracts many if not most psychologists--academics, researchers, and graduate students alike, to participate and contribute in their own way to our research and education endeavors.
JSPP has been a center of research activities in personality psychology since June 1992, when it was established, and the number of its membership at the end of January 2007 was 742 in total, of which 233 were student members including postdoctoral research fellows. We are particularly proud to have a large number of young, research-active psychologists among us, and hope that the Society will continue to grow.
Besides the Executive Board of Directors (SUGIYAMA, Kenji, Chair and President of JSPP), several standing committees of the Society take leading roles for day-to-day activities of JSPP, with the aims to facilitate public understanding of the Society and personality psychology, stimulate research activities within JSPP, and organize collaborative work with other psychological associations. For instance, News and Internet Committee regularly issues the Society’s newsletter, which is now expanded to being an e-mail newsletter. It also takes care of the Society’s homepage (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jspp/: Japanese language only). Research and Exchange Committee organizes a symposium or lecture meeting, open to the public, at least once a year. They also hold workshops of statistical analysis, new research methodology, newly developing research topics, and so on, for interested JSPP members. Sometimes, the committee works with its counterparts of other psychological associations to organize a symposium or collaborative research activities.
Annual meetings of the Society are usually held in September. However, this year’s meeting is scheduled for August 25 and 26, at Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, which is in the northern island of Hokkaido. The meeting will be our 16th, and Research and Exchange Committee here again is expected to play an important role and work along with the organizing committee, often short-handed, to develop attractive meeting programs.
The Society’s Editorial Committee is in charge of its journal: The Japanese Journal of Personality, and three issues a year are published for the Journal since the year 2005. You may read all the articles published after Volume 12 (2003) on the homepage at Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE; http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/personality). Although almost all articles are in Japanese with English abstract, you may want to download them in PDF format from the site. Bibliographic information and references of the Journal articles are now included in such well-known international databases as CrossRef, Google Scholar, and PubMed. They are also linked with APA journals through CrossRef. We would like to suggest you read the English abstracts when you have time.
In future reports, we are planning to inform you of the research activities of JSPP members that are particularly notable here in Japan. We hope this communication is fruitful for all of us. This greeting is from another committee of the Society: International Programs Committee (OSHIO, Atsushi, Ph.D., Chair), which is only a few months old. You may get in touch with us at our e-mail address: iecJSPP@googlegroups.com.
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