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8. The 23 ICAP held in Madrid 1994
From July 17-22, 1994 the 23rd International Congress of Applied Psychology was held in Madrid. 3,500 persons from 70 countries have participated and two-thirds of them produced a paper for this Congress.
The following table provides an overview of the kind and number of activities developed during the congress:ACTIVITIES NUMBER PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES 11 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES 53 PROBLEM SOLVING SESSIONS 8 SYMPOSIA 224 THEMATIC SESSIONS 142 (750 papers) POSTERS 663 TOTAL 1.101 TIME SLOTS made available 519
The attached table provides the number of abstracts presented in each area of the congress and the related percentage. These figures provides also a profile and a test of the influence of each IAAP division in shaping the final scientific program of the 1994's congress.FIELDS NUMBER PERCENGE Educational Psychology 176 16'01 % Organizational Psychology 173 15'74 % Clinical Psychology 144 13'01 % Health Psychology 118 10'07 % General Applied Fields 107 9'70 % Psychological Assessment 102 9'28 % Traffic Psychology 40 3'60 % Environmental Psychology 33 3'00 % Psychology and National Development 28 2'54 % Sport Psychology 28 2'54 % Forensic Psychology 23 2'09 % Political Psychology 23 2'09 % Applied Gerontology 21 1'91 % Psychology and Language 19 1'72 % Economic Psychology 17 1'54 % Professional Issues in Psychology 16 1'45 % Evaluation Research 14 1'27 % History of Applied Psychology 11 1'00 % Psychology and Welfare Services 6 0'50 %
This congres was sponsored by the Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos on behalf of the International Association of Applied Psychology. The Complutense University provided the host in Internet for an information service via e-mail and for the submission of abstracts. It was the first Congress in Psychology were telecommuting and telecomputing among psychologists worked together. It was also the first congress in psychology were the proceedings were made available in printed form and online in HTML format just at the same time. The large body of 2.100 abstracts was organized into numerous fragments. Each fragment was related to a field of specialty and and a kind of activity during the congres. Users may reach via mail the small fraction of information they need at any time.
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