Nathan Brody

Dear colleagues,

This is a particularly sad time for the members of ISSID. Many of us have lost a friend and mentor. All of us have lost the inspiration of an intellectual giant whose remarkable breadth of knoweldge and ability to define the important issues in the field was unparalleled. I know that all of the members of ISSID join with me in expressing our profound sense of loss and our condolences to Sybil and to other members of Hans's family.

At our last meeting in Aarhus someone remarked that all of the past Presidents of ISSID were in attendance as well as our next President, Ian Deary. This will never again be possible. But ISSID will continue as a remarkably vibrant intellectual enterprise. And, I hope, that ist continuations will be one of the many wasy in which Hans's legacy is preserved. For many of us, ISSID is at the center of our intellectual lives. Some of us share a committment to what I take to be Hans's core beliefs - our individuality may be understood as the expression of a limited number of heritable dispositions that shape our responses to the social worlds that we encounter. Such a view of individual differences leads ineluctabily to a biosocial conception of individuality. Others might demur from these core beliefs. I do not believe that ISSID's members are defined by a rigorous adherence to any set of beliefs. If we have anything in common, I suspect that it has to do more with another aspect of Hans's legacy - an open minded search for truth, a willigness to entertain orthodox and unorthodox hypotheses that are supported by data and an uncompromising committment to scientifically rigorous research. In this connection I am invariably impressed with the quality of the research reported at ISSID meetings.

ISSID reflects the characteristics of its founder in another way. Hans was remarkably knowledgeable about the work of scientists in many different countries. ISSID is a truly international society. It has allowed many of us to form friendships and fruitful exchanges with scientists in many different countires. I hope that our international representation increases and we continue to be a society that is not dominated by psychologists working in any particular country or continent.

This newsletter contains information about our next meeting in Vancouver in 1999. I am pleased that we were able to move the date of the meeting to a time that I hope will be more convenient for our members. The meeting that will be held in conjunction with the Behavior Genetics Society ought to provide us with a remarkable opportunity to collaborate with a society whose membership includes many distinguished scientists whose work is of interest to ISSID's membership. I look forward to seeing you all there. You can help us to shape the meetings by sending your suggestions to Kerry Jang. I also hope that you will encourage your colleagues to participate in the meetings. It is always nice to hear new ideas from new people.

Please feel free to contact me about your ideas for the Society. I can be reached by e-mail at: nbrody@wesleyan.edu.

Cordially,

Nat

Hans Jürgen Eysenck (4 March 1916 - 4 September 1997)

An appreciation

When Nat Brody asked me to write an ISSID Newsletter obituary for Hans Eysenck I felt very privileged. And immensely sad. It seemed so short a time since Helmuth Nyborg had asked me to contribute a chapter to the book that the Society presented to Hans at the conference in July.

And now an obituary. The word seems so final - as it is: literally a record of death. Yet if there was one thing to be said about Hans Eysenck it would not include finality. Of course, in one sense it must do: in this case the biology is pre-eminent (Hans would have appreciated the irony). But the substantive 'life' will, we know, continue. To believe otherwise would be to contemplate the demise of a whole branch of Psychology, a unique approach to the study of behaviour, especially its individual differences, that he inspired and which through half-a-century has, despite the critics, flourished. But how to characterise that life? Conventionally it would be in terms of the usual measures of eminence and distinction: immense and immensely varied knowledge, a flourishing academic department, people throughout the world influenced by his ideas, astonishing work output, and (the one he liked himself) top ranking for years on several citation indexes. Or it might refer to the controversy that always surrounded him and which, he was quite right, was a side-effect of his creativity. Yet somehow all of that seems unsatisfying and those of us schooled in the Eysenckian notion of layers of causation surely feel the need to probe beneath the outward career signs, to try to discover some purer core to his genius.

Although there are exceptions, the great creative thinkers generally have only one, truly 'earth-moving', insight in their lives. And this is usually derivative, building upon existing knowledge, making connections between ideas that have previously lain unnoticed. The 'Eysenck insight', in my view, was the systematic integration within a grand theory of two lines of thought about individual differences: one represented in the psychometric tradition of personality description and the other grounded in biological explanations of temperament, traceable most recently to the Pavlovian theory of nervous types. This, together with the further connections he made - through dimensionality - to abnormal personality and mental illness, established a framework for investigating any (and for Hans Eysenck that meant all) aspects of human nature. Even in his own application of his own theory this included differential experimental psychology, psychiatry, general medicine, psychopharmacology, and psychogenetics, to name just some of the areas he ventured into.

It is interesting to note that Hans himself also thought that his personality theory was his greatest achievement, as he points out in his autobiography, Rebel with a Cause. Certainly I myself will never forget the sheer thrill of inspiration when, as a young undergraduate cynically disillusioned with the vapid psychology and psychiatry of the time, I_heard him outline an early prototype of his 1955 theory of the dynamics of anxiety and hysteria. He did so, of course, in the deceptive simplicity that I eventually learned to be wary of and which I later cheekily referred to as his 'sleight of Hans.' But it was the clarity of the general message - dimensional description and biological cause - that struck me as startlingly correct and which remained, and remains, so in my mind. The rest - the arguments over detail (like what the precise dimensions are and where they lie) - I have always thought of, and felt that he saw too, as minor squabbles: a case of his crotchety children snapping at his ankles!

Hans Eysenck always insisted that he had no wish to establish a school of psychology bearing his name: hence his tolerance, even encouragement, of such dispute. Yet the notion of an 'Eysenckian School' does, inevitably, exist. In a concrete sense I suppose its boundaries are delineated by membership of ISSID and/or regular readership of PAID; or according to those who, while disagreeing with him on some issues, have appreciated his genius sufficiently to stay loyal to his greater contribution.

Outside this loosely defined group of followers there has been a larger set of people who have been indifferent, or unfriendly or even hostile, to his ideas; extending at the worst extreme to actual physical violence. Once again we find ourselves scrabbling for an explanation, for an underlying cause. Anyone who encountered the private Hans even briefly, and who knew something of his life-history, must have been bewildered by the apparent contradiction between the personal and the public image. How could a man who had lived through and so bitterly disliked the Nazi ideology find himself the subject of such vehement attack for extreme political and racist views? I believe the answer lies in a combination of openness of mind and dedication to factual evidence that took him beyond the ordinary bounds of moderation and compromise. He hated the German political system of his youth, its dogma and repression of free speech, to a degree that perhaps many of us have underestimated. He therefore defended as sacrosanct the right to present a view - any view, so long as it was supported by scientific fact. The problem is that psychological facts are not so easily agreed upon, or found as socially neutral, as those of the physicist that Hans Eysenck really wanted to become.

Hans was, according to his own self-description, primarily a thinker. He claimed he rarely, if ever, allowed his feelings to intrude into his work: he was not an intuitive psychologist. He was also convinced - as he had a right to be - of the correctness of his own ideas. But these qualities undoubtedly contributed in part to the hostility expressed towards him in the wider psychological community. The clinicians there cannot relate to the 'objectivity' he stressed. On the other hand, the academics, although themselves purporting to be tough scientists, have often taken fright at his certainty, his reductionism, or the sweeping scope of his theorising. Or they have simply been too preoccupied with their own narrow concerns to pay attention. For example, there has been an astonishing reluctance in general experimental psychology to listen to what I always thought was among the least controversial of the Eysenck messages. I am referring to the one about the 'two faces of Psychology' and his proposal that the personality paradigm he offered could also help the generalists understand why there was so much 'error variance' in their data. Few listened, of course. Nor do they yet. Perhaps again it was Hans' cool confidence in his theory, coupled with their own inability to see the larger picture, that put them off.

A more formal indication of the indifference was failure to attract the usual ceremonial honours of distinction. It is true that later in his career Hans did receive several important accolades from the United States; including the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist Award in 1988, and in 1993 The Presidential Citation for Scientific Contribution. Yet shamefully there was never any such recognition in the country that, for 50 years, he adopted as his own. Referring to this on a British TV programme some years ago, Adrian Furnham pointed out that anyone else with the talents and academic achievements of Hans Eysenck would long ago have been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He never was nor never would have been. The distance was too great between him and the Oxbridge clubbishness that mostly determines such matters: he was at the opposite end of too many of the dimensions - social and academic snobbery, professional ambitiousness, intellectual rigidity, and fear of nonconformity.

I don't know whether Hans minded these things. I_suspect that in his early days he did and that his detachment from it all was something of a defence. But eventually his accomplishments were such that the HJE maverick style in Psychology became a part of his nature; one which, I am sure, he was entirely at ease with. He knew as well as any - after all, he wrote enough about it - that it is the long time-scale that matters in creative science (or art). His place of distinction in that is assured.

Even so - to join with Gisli Gudjonsson's sentiment in his own, PAID, obituary for Hans - we shall all, in our individual ways, miss him. Hans Jurgens Eysenck was not a talkative man in private, personal encounters; by contrast, in public debate he was articulate and outspoken. In more than one respect, therefore, there will be an awful sound to the silences at future ISSID conferences.

Gordon Claridge

Oxford, November 1997

The 8th International meeting of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) took place at Aarhus University, Denmark, July 19-23. It became a memorable event for several reasons. First of all, it marked the last public appearance of one of ISSID´s founding fathers and most prolific members, professor Hans J. Eysenck. Despite severe illness Eysenck expressed an unfailing determination to attend the meeting, in order to meet former students, friends and colleagues, and to preside over the gala evening to his honor. The evening was grazed by multiple speeches and anecdotes putting into proper perspective the profound personal and professional impact Eysenck exerted on so many individuals and specialties during his more than 50 years of professional service. He was also presented with a full 25 chapter 625 pages Festschrift in his honor. More than thirty colleagues strove desperately, in the month before the ISSID meeting, against dangerously close deadlines to outline a few of Eysenck´s many major contributions along the major goals of ISSID - to identify the individual basis for, and consequences of, human nature in all ist multiple manifestations. Although Hans himself was unable at the time to read the book, his wife Sybil, daughter Connie, and son Darrin, read parts of it aloud to him. This brought back professional as well as personal memories of a lifetime so richly filled with scientific activity and deep devotion. At the conference dinner Hans asked me to convey his deep gratitude to the many individuals and ISSID officers for honoring him at the meeting and in other ways. A non-professional video tape with takes from selected Gala and Conference dinner events can be obtained at production price plus postage. If interested please contact Lone Hansen by email (lone@psy.au.dk - very limited store, first come-first serve basis, specify format: PAL or NTSC). The 8th ISSID meeting was well attended. About 200 participants came from most parts of the globe. Twenty-five countries, including several economically underprivileged, were represented. Grants secured that 10 participants from thus disadvantaged areas could be freed from paying conference fee and lodging. The presidential address by Paul Costa, the many invited keynote lectures given by eminent scholars in the field, the symposia, free papers and posters contributed significantly to the high professional standard of the meeting. Not without hesitation the organizers of the meeting allowed national radio and TV reporters to attend the meeting. They interviewed several participants on what use to be quite controversial matters, but this resulted in a number of fairly well-balanced radio and TV transmissions. The net effects of this seems to have been a greater public awareness of the complexities of digging into sensitive matters like the developmental basis or consequences of individual differences in, say, intelligence and personality. Also here the ISSID meeting seems to have fulfilled an important obligation: To present available facts in a sensible way. Let me hereby thank all those responsible for this. The secretariat has after the meeting received more than 50 personal emails, letters and faxes from participants, saying that they were less than dissatisfied with the way the conference was run. Now we all look forward to the next Vancouver `99 meeting.

Helmuth Nyborg

(conference chair)

Minutes of the meeting of the Executive Officers and Board of Directors

Aarhus, Denmark 21 July, 1997.

Present were:

1. The minutes of the previous meeting in Warsaw (1995) were accepted as published in the Newsletter.

2. Paul Costa reported that ISSID was invited to submit a symposium at the next International Congress of Psychology meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, 2000. Paul Costa represented ISSID at the previous meeting. After some discussion, it was agreed to decline the invitation.

3. Alois Angleitner noted the error in the Newsletter regarding the termination date for the terms of Directors of ISSID. Angleitner requested that the By-law committee be enacted to correct ambiguities re. Article IV(1) concerning maintaining staggered terms on the Board of Directors when a Board member is elected as an executive officer before their term as Director has expired. This committee was also assigned to examine Article V(2) concerning the number of nominations required so that a member must be included in the slate of nominees. The By-laws committee was composed of Costa (chair), Angleitner and Stelmack. Recommendations for revisions to the By-laws will be prepared and submitted to the Board and to the membership at the next Board and business meeting of ISSID.

4. Vilfredo DePasqualis was identified as the person to contact regarding participation at the European Congress of Psychology.

5.In his election report, Paul Costa noted that the participation rate in the recent election was a very respectable 50% of the membership. Ian Deary (Edinburgh) was named as President-elect (1999-2001). Dieter Bartussek (University of Trier) and Gordon Claridge (Oxford) were elected as Directors (1997-2001).

6. Paul Costa expressed appreciation to Helmuth Nyborg, on behalf of the Board and the members of ISSID, for organizing the 8th biennial ISSID conference.

7. ISSID contributed $1000 to the summer school program in personality psychology organized by Boele DeRaad (University of Groningen). It was judged to be a good success with 25 students from 13 different countries attending the program. Instructors at the summer school included Costa, Mervielde, Wiggins, Perugini and Hendriks. The next summer school is planned on the topic of behaviour genetics. This summer school could be held in Gent. Possible organizers are Prof. Dr. Ivan Mervielde and Dr. Filip de Fruyt.

8. James Parker (Trent University, Canada) was named recipient of the Early Career Development Award for 1997. Tony Vernon was named as Chairman of the selection committee for the next Early Career Development Award. It was agreed that the award was not necessarily awarded biennially. The award was determined by the quality of the candidates that were nominated in the competition. It was suggested that the deadline for nominations be extended to January 1, 1999.

9. The financial report that was distributed by Alois Angleitner indicated that a healthy balance was maintained during the past two years. Current membership in the society stands at 254, an increase of about 20 members during the past two years.

10. Gisli Gudjonsson described the changes in editorial responsibility for the journal Personality and Individual Differences that were necessitated by Hans Eysenck's illness. Dr. Gisli Gudjonsson, a faculty member at the Department of Psychology, Institute for Psychiatry was asked by Hans Eysenck to serve as interim editor-in-chief of PAID while Eysenck was recovering from illness. Because the illness was protracted, Gudjonsson was asked by Eysenck to assume this position full-time. The publisher concurred with this recommendation. Gudjonsson was well-placed to use the resources that enabled publication of PAID that Eysenck had established at the Institute for Psychiatry. With this support, he has maintained uninterrupted publication of the journal.

11. David Hoole, a senior editor for psychology with Elsevier, the publisher of PAID, outlined his knowledge of the arrangement between Hans Eysenck and the publisher for the publication of the journal and this relationship was discussed by the Board members. Specifically, the first issue of PAID was published by Pergamon Press in 1980. Hans Eysenck was named editor of PAID by Rupert Murdoch, the President of Pergamon Press, who was a personal friend of Eysenck. This friendship had developed for many years following the successful publication of Behaviour Research and Therapy which Eysenck founded and which Pergamon also published.

In 1983, the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences was inaugurated. Hans Eysenck was a member of the organizing committee that founded that society. He was encouraged by the Board of Directors of ISSID to name PAID as the official journal of the society at that time, which he did.

The By-laws of ISSID have a mandate for the Publication committee (Article VII.5) to review and recommend policies concerning publication of PAID. There are no ISSID policies governing succession or appointment of the editor-in-chief at this time. A publication committee, composed of Costa, Deary, Angleitner, and Brody, was named to discuss the relation of ISSID and PAID with Gudjonsson and Hoole. The publication committee will include Prof. Dr. Jan Strelau as consultant. The objective of this discussion was to work out a formal relationship between ISSID, the editor and the publisher.

11. David Hoole, the Elsevier representative, requested suggestions for attracting new membership and subscriptions to PAID. Stelmack suggested that the publisher sponsor a lecture to honour Hans Eysenck that would be made at the ISSID biennial meeting. PAID and ISSID would be advertised and new members attracted by awarding this prize to a distinguished scientist who made a significant contribution to the study of individual differences. It was also suggested that the value of this prize be L1000 to cover travel, accommodation and registration expenses. It was agreed that further discussion of this suggestion would proceed between ISSID and Elsevier.

12. Paul Costa announced that Vancouver was the venue for the 9th Biennial meeting of ISSID, 1999 and that Kerry L. Jang, Dept. of Psychology, University of British Columbia was the conference chairman. The conference was to be held at the same hotel as arranged for the Behavioural Genetics meeting that will be held at the same time. Special considerations for registrations were to be given to members who were interested to attend both meetings.

13. Tony Vernon was named chair of the program committee for the 9th Biennial meeting of ISSID.

14. Jan Strelau initiated a discussion concerning the application of ISSID to join the International Union of Psychological Science. Nat Brody was named to look into this matter and to make a decision on this suggestion and to act on it as appropriate.

15. Ian Deary announced that he would explore the feasibility of hosting the 10th biennial meeting of ISSID in Edinburgh in 2001. This suggestion was enthusiastically endorsed.

The fourth Summerschool initiated by the EAPP and taking place under the auspices of the EAPP, the ISSID, and the EAPA was held in Vienna, July 12-19, 1997. The location of the summerschool was a youth-hostel, about 15 minutes bus/tram from the city-center.

The three earlier summerschools, all initiated by the EAPP, took place in

The support of the fourth summerschool by three psychological associations emphasizes its recognition as an important contribution in the broad area of individual differences and assessment.

The general topic of the summerschool was "personality structure and measurement". Several sub-areas of this topic were elaborated upon by the six teachers at the summerschool:

Dr. B. De Raad on 'Psycholexical foundation of personality assessment'

Dr. J. Hendriks on 'Construction of the Five Factor Personality Inventory'

Dr. M. Perugini on 'How to select markers for scales'

The summerschool was attended by 22 participants from 14 countries, including USA, Canada and South Africa. 18 of them gave presentations on their own work during the summerschool.

The summerschool sessions were informally structured, leaving plenty of space for discussion. Professor Jerry Wiggins opened the sessions with a very stimulating thorough review of assessment paradigms, in which he was particularly convincing in breaking down barriers of communication between different schools of thought. Professor Wiggins presentations, covering about the first day and a half, formed an excellent background for the subsequent presentations. Dr. Boele De Raad followed with a presentation on the lexical principles of trait description and on the main theme of the lexical approach which is coverage of the trait domain. Professor Ivan Mervielde provided us with a detailed and insightful lecture on personality description based on free descriptions by parents. He concluded with providing information on the construction of a personality inventory for children. Dr. Paul Costa took the participants on an excursion to NEOPIR-land, the background of the inventory, the development, the psychometrics, but also clinical applications. Further topics included stability and change and trait structure as a human universal. Dr. Jolijn Hendriks taught about the construction of the newly developed Big Five measure, the Five Factor Personality Inventory (FFPI) which is a straighforward product of the psycholexical approach to trait description. Dr. Marco Perugini gave an excellent talk on the selection of Marker variables. The end of the afternoon was mostly used for presentations by the student-participants.

Each of the participants received a summerschool-certificate, on behalf of the three associations EAPP, ISSID and EAPA.

The summerschool was definitely a success. It had informational and stimulating presentations and discussions. It took place in an exciting city with an abundance of culture and kitchen, the atmosphere at the summerschool was relaxed and concentrated. One of the evenings was used for the summerschool-dinner in an excellent Italian restaurant called Cavaliere.

I wish to acknowledge and express thanks to Birgitte Boksteen for her help in organizing this summerschool; her thoughtfulness during the preparation prevented many mistakes to happen; she designed the beautiful poster, and her attentiveness during the summerschool helped to make it a smooth and pleasant event, one that asks for a follow-up.

Boele De Raad

The 1999 ISSID meeting will be held at the Coast Plaza at Stanley Park Hotel, nestled in downtown Vancouver. The meeting venue is a 2 minute walk from the warm and sandy beaches of English Bay and 3 minutes from the five-square miles of old growth forest of Stanley Park, surrounded by Burrard Inlet and the picturesque seawall walkway. Vancouver is Canada’s most popular vacation destination being situated on the warm waters of the Pacific Northwest with the attractions of a seaside resort. Downtown Vancouver is 20 minutes away from day trips to the Rocky and Coast Mountain ranges, minutes away for sailboat trips and cruise ship terminals. The city of Victoria on Vancouver Island, home of the Westcoast Trail, sport fishing, Long Beach and whale watching expeditions and is a short ferry ride away through the rugged beauty of Active Pass. Trips to Banff and the dinosaur patch in Drumheller, near Calgary, Alberta is only an hour’s flight away.

Vancouver is Canada’s third largest city and features a very active night life, shopping venues, and an overabundance of restaurants. The influence of the Pacific Rim is particularly evident with the excellent seafoods and the Asian cuisine is world renowned. Vancouver is an ideal meeting place for its mild weather, friendly Western Canadian hospitality, accessibility, and the low value of Canadian dollar against most European and U.S. currencies. The low dollar makes the trip especially attractive for attendees and their families, and a large number of the rooms in the conference hotel are suites with full kitchen facilities. Negotiations with other nearby hotels are in progress to accommodate all budgets. Vancouver International airport is serviced by all major carriers and we have negotiated discounts on all flight classes with Canadian Airlines International and its partners.

The 1999 ISSID conference is particularly special in that the annual meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) is being held at the same time. There is a considerable overlap of areas of interest between ISSID and BGA members. Both conferences are scheduled to run concurrently so that ISSID and BGA attendees can attend and contribute to each other’s meetings. The paper and symposia sessions for both societies will be scheduled to ensure that sessions on a common theme will be held consecutively, so that it is a simple matter of moving to the next room to hear all there is about a single topic.

Kerry L. Jang, Local Host & Organizer

Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, 2255 Wesbrook Mall,

Canada V6T 2A1. e-mail: kjang@unixg.ubc.ca; fax: (604) 822-7756

Our distinguished member Professor Dr. Norman Endler of York University has been awarded the Innis-Gerin Medal by the Royal Society of Canada for Distinguished and Sustained Contribution to Social Science in Canada.

Furthermore, our distinguished colleague and ISSID member Professor Dr. Jan Strelau of Warsaw University has been awarded the European Prize for Higher Education and Research. This prize is established by the following institutions for advanced studies, 1. Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, 2. NIAS in Wassenaar, 3. Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, 4. the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 5. the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala, and 6. the Wissenschaftskolleg at Berlin. The prize is given to prominet East European scientists and should enable to build new intellectual resources in former socialistic countries.

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Cooper, C. L. (Ed.) (1996). Handbook of stress, medicine, and health. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc. (ISBN 0-8493-2908-6; 388 pp.)

Claridge, G. (Ed) (1997). Schizotypy: Implications for Illness and Health. Oxford University Press.

Endler, N. S. & Zeidner, M. (Eds.) (1996). Handbook of coping: Theory, research, applications. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. (ISBN 0-471-59946-8; 728 pp.)

Eysenck, H. J. & Eysenck, M. (Eds.) (1995). Mindwatching: Why we behave the way we do. London, England: Prion Books, Ltd. (ISBN 1-85375-194-4; 415 pp.)

Eysenck, H. J. (Ed.) (1997). Rebel with a cause: The autobiography of Hans Eysenck (extended and enlarged edition). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. (ISBN 1-56000-938-1; 337 pp.)

Eysenck, H. J. (1995) The Eysenck Personality Profiler and Eysenck´s theory of Personality. London: Corporated Assessment Network Ltd.

Eysenck, H. J. (Ed.) (1995). Genius: The natural history of creativity. Camebridge, England: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN 0-521-48014-0; 344 pp.)

Jensen, A.R. (1998) The G Factor. London: Greenwood

Lynn, R. (1997) Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations. London: Greenwood

Robinson, D.L. (1996) Brain, Mind, and Behavior: A New Perspective on Human Nature. London: Greenwood

Spielberger, C. D.; Sarason, I. G.; Brebner, J. M. T. ; Greenglass, E., Laungani, P. & O´Roark, A. M. (Eds.) (1995). Stress and emotion: Anxiety, anger, and curiosity. Washingtion, DC: Taylor & Francis. (ISBN 1-56032-284-5; 300 pp.)

An award to young scientists was established by the ISSID Board of Directors in 1991 to recognize and encourage their early career development for research in personality and individual differences. The award is intended for scientists who have completed their doctoral degree within the past seven years and who are commited to the academic objectives of ISSID. Eligible candidates should show a demonstrated record of outständing achivements or accomplishments and promise of continuing achivemments in the field of personality and individual differences.

The award is comprised of a citation at the ISSID conference where the award winner will be invited to present a paper on her work. The award also includes the conference registration fee and a cash award of 100 pounds to be used for conference expenses.

Candidates must be nominated and endorsed by a member of ISSID. The candidates for the award are invited to submit an application letter, a curriculum vitae, and a recent article length research paper or reprint on their work.

Nomination and application letters, the curriculum vitae and research material should be sent before January 1, 1999 to: Tony Vernon, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2.

Call for Donations

A memorial fund has been set up in the memory of Professor H. J.Eysenck for a postgraduate research scholarship in the field of personality and individual differences.

All donations should be made payable to ‘Kings College London’ and sent to:

Dr. Sybil Eysenck
Department of Psychology
Institute of Psychiatry
De Crespigny Park
Denmark Hill
London SE5 8AF

Please ensure you quote the following reference on the back of the cheque:

‘DPBA 83 66 W99. Professor H. J. Eysenck Memorial Fund’

Your donation is greatly appreciated.

Paul Costa informed us that he had to take the ISSID web page off of his Lab Web page according to new rules and procedures.

Revelle was willing to host the ISSID web page.

The address for the page is:

William Revelle has a web page on a personality project, which can be reached via the following address: http://pmc.psych.northwestern.edu/personality.html

You are kindly invited to send information to the Secretary-Treasurer.