To Compare Work In Psychology

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31093, 23 June 1966, Page 12

To Compare Work In Psychology

When Dr. R. A. M. Gregson, reader in psychology at the University of Canterbury, goes overseas next month on an Erskine fellowship, he will give lectures on and discuss research being done in Christchurch at universities in the United States, Britain, Scandinavia, and Russia. The American visits will include the University of California at San Diego and at Davis, the University of Indiana, Pennsylvania State College, and Brown University. Three of the universities are particularly interested in research on the psychology of taste which Dr. Gregson has been conducting in Canterbury.

The University of Stockholm has been exchanging with the University of Canterbury reports on experimental and mathematical psychology. Dr. Gregson will have talks on this work while he is in Sweden. The eighteenth International Psychology Congress, sponsored by the International Union of Psychological Sciences, will be

held in Moscow for a week in August Dr. Gregson will attend as New Zealand delegate and give a paper. More than 2000 delegates are expected to attend. Dr. Gregson said this was the first time for many years that Eastern and Western psychologists had been able to hold a large-scale meeting. Part of the reason was that American and Russian psychologists, working independently, has reached very similar and important views concerning human functions and abilities.