REPORT ON AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONVENTION.

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00184360
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: January 21, 2025
• Document Release Date: January 15, 1983
• Publication Date: September 24, 1953

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ce Memoram n � UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
er TO : Chief, Technieal Branch
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lomeek roam No. 64
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roam 2 eptember 193
SUBJECT: neoort on American Psycholorical Association Convention.
1. This is a brief report on the American Fsycholoeical As-
soeintion Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, 1-9 3entember 1953.
The undersieyted to thistriat his own expense and with the
concierrence of end10111110000MMINIV the
period he WS absent from the office WP5 not considered as leave.
2. Leaving jaehtngton on Thursday, 3 Jertember 1953, I
ettended the meetines of the convention on 4 and 5 .J'ece-ember rnd
(*.pep drove to Detroit, Uchiean where I interviTeed
,nd hreueht him un to Hato reeerding the develeements of the pro-
noeed research project in Detroit. I reterned to the convention
and attended mectines on 8 and 9 Sentember and then returned to
iashin7ton. The meetines -ecre held in five widele senereted hotels
and school buildines which made attendance difficult as meetings
were held sieultaneously at different locetions.
3. The ecnerel imoreseion of the meetines was not as
fevorel,le rs se-e others because the Papers themselvce were lienited
to tweLve minutes and there were a rood man:- symeosimms which were
more extemporaneous rather than oianned nresent-ticns. The movies
presented at the mestintes mere not interestin; from our eoint of
view althoueh techeically the: 'Jere very Food in the abeermet and
esYchiatric fields. The meeting on streee and anxiety was not as
interestine as the title milit lead one to ce:nect. Chemical
nnelysis of the bl,nd wes made before and efter individuals went
throneh lune treinine with the Atr Force. Controlled eroups Jere
cemeered %ith thoee oin- three .11 jume treniee. ChemIcal chenees
were nnt' n th exeerieenlea ereue be . the findlnee ereeeeted
nethile new over the liter-tere of the T1.7.5t twitr! yeere.
4. Theu:h I dirl not ettend the meetine on Nerschach tests
elven after hyonetiteil7 Induced hostilit7, reeorte frem these
vhe ettem:Lei oheeed there vee vele/ little new ereeented 7nd the
ele the eseel eleezereoll tyee and ier:ely P e.I.V1�: of the
Perschach test.
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5. The ehysiolor;ical meetirr:s were interestim7 but nothiw:
very new wvs Presented. Temporary relief of fear by sodiuq-Pento-
barbital injection was whet wrus to be ex?ected with the dm; and
ernerimental setup presented.
6. The meetin:; on the Preference for saccarin was an attemut
to determine mhether eaccarin or sodium is the attraction factor
in rats who are starved. The results of the red-green discrimina-
tion in the dog were nePative.
7. There VAS a much lar;er number of industrial os7cho1oists
who attended the meeting and many of the symposiums were devoted to
the introduction of nsycholoeical techni-ues in industrial ,..:roups.
Summaries of the Inners will be available later and the complete
rer.orts of the Presid.mts of the'vnrieus sectionn will be printed
in full.
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