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Membership in IAAP

It Pays to Be A Member of IAAP

Membership in IAAP offers you a world-wide network of colleagues with a multitude of opportunities to develop close cooperation and exchanges in research, teaching, and the practice of applied psychology.

Through your participation in IAAP's 18 Divisions, you can contribute to the International Congress of Applied Psychology, the quarterly bulletin Applied Psychology Around the World, and regular webinars.

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Benefits of Membership

  • Participate in the International Congresses of Applied Psychology and co-sponsored regional meetings at reduced fees.
  • Free access to journalsApplied Psychology - An International Review and Applied Psychology: Health & Wellbeing.
  • Free access to the quarterly bulletin Applied Psychology Around the World
  • Additional journals from Wiley are offered to IAAP members at special subscription fees. View the full list.
  • Attend and contribute to regular webinars with members around the world.
  • IAAP offers 200 free institutional memberships to libraries and departments of psychology from low income countries. A formal request must be sent by the director of the department or the university library to the Secretary General of IAAP, that is, via email here.

10 More Reasons to Join

  1. Become a member of the oldest and largest international association for applied psychology and help to make applied psychology stronger in today’s world.
  2. Receive two world class journals! Applied Psychology: An International Review or Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being
  3. Receive other journals at a substantial rate decreases, e.g. The European Work and Organizational Psychologist, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Relations.
  4. Become a member of an exciting group of international scholars, scientists, and practitioners who are interested in advancing applied psychology, and who want to cooperate with scientists from around the world.
  5. Support IAAP’s efforts internationally to help make applied psychology accepted in all countries.
  6. Support IAAP’s efforts with international organizations to help them to use psychological knowledge more efficiently.
  7. Support cross-fertilization across the subdisciplines of applied psychology.
  8. Receive a newsletter free of charge that keeps you knowledgable of new events in other parts of the world.
  9. Pay reduced fees for the international congresses that are organized by IAAP, e.g. the International Congress of Applied Psychology to be held in Beijing 2022.
  10. Pay reduced membership dues for student members and members from low income countries.

Voting Rights of Members

IAAP members in good standing* and new members have full voting rights, may nominate or endorse candidates, may participate actively in decision making in IAAP affairs and activities. Lapsed members and incoming member may do suggestions but do not have voting rights, cannot nominate, cannot endorse, cannot participate actively in decision making.

Nomination Rights of Members

Membership in good standing* for a minimum of two years is a basic requisite to be nominated, to nominate and endorse candidates in election procedures of IAAP. Exceptions to the requisite of full membership in good standing will be an extraordinary matter and must be put forward by the president in office backed by the past president and the president elect. This is an example of the presidential privilege.

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*Members in good standing

IAAP members in good standing are those who appear in the database of members updated by the end of December last year and the database of members of the present year. New members of IAAP are those who appear in the database of members of the present year but not in the database of the previous year. Incoming members of IAAP are those who pay their membership through the registration form of the ICAP because they become members the next year. Lapsed members are those who do not appear in the database of members updated last December and the database of members in the present year, but appear in databases of members by December of two or more years ago.


Additional Journals

  • Asian Journal of Social Psychology(for the Japanese Group Dynamics Association and the Asian Association of Social Psychology)
  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy
  • British Journal of Special Education(for the National Association for Special Educational Needs)
  • Child Development(for the Society for Research in Child Development)
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science(for the American Psychological Society)
  • Curriculum Inquiry
  • Developmental Science
  • European Journal of Education(for the European Institute of Education and Social Policy)
  • Gender, Work and Organization
  • Higher Education Quarterly(Society for Research into Higher Education)
  • Industrial Relations
  • International Journal of Selection and Assessment
  • Japanese Psychological Research(for the Japanese Psychological Association)
  • Journal of Analytical Psychology(for the Society of Analytical Psychology)
  • Journal of Family Therapy(for theUKAssociation for Family Therapy and Systematic Practice)
  • Journal of Personality
  • Journal of Social Issues
  • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
  • Journal of Research in Reading(for theUnited KingdomReading Association)
  • Mind and Language
  • Pastoral Care in Education(for the National Association for Pastoral Care in Education)
  • Political Psychology
  • Psychological Science(for the American Psychological Society)
  • Reading(for theUnited KingdomReading Association)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Psychology(for the Psychological Associations ofDenmark,Finland,NorwayandSweden)
  • Social Development
  • Sociology of Health and Illness
  • Support for Learning(for the National Association for Special Educational Needs)
  • Teachers College Record