I A R E P

Founded in 1982, the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP) is the natural meeting point for all those interested in the areas where psychology and economics intersect. It has a wide international membership, drawn from psychologists and economics, but also from specialists in business administration, marketing and consumer behaviour. The Association's members include both academics and practitioners, and students are always encouraged to take part in our activities.

The Interests of the Association are broad. A few of our members would describe themselves as "economic psychologists", and work in departments or institutes of economic psychology. The majority, however, are simply experts in one discipline who recognize that neighbouring disciplines have something important to contribute to the areas they are interested in. We welcome anyone who takes this kind of open-minded approach to research. Economic psychology is concerned with both with the psychological mechanisms through which economic behaviour comes about, and with the psychological effects of economic events. While IAREP stresses the importance of empirical work, we also recognize the contribution both economic and psychological theory can make to interdisciplinary investigations.

The Activities of the Association include:

 
• Holding an annual colloquium in which current research is presented and discussed. This is normally held somewhere in Europe, lasts for three or four days, and gives an opportunity for informal contact as well as more formal presentations. This is the most important meeting point for anyone interested in interdisciplinary work between psychologists and economists. Members of the Association are entitled to concessionary registration fees, and the Annual General Meeting of the Association is normally during the colloquium. The 1997 Conference was in Valencia, Spain, the 1998 conference was held in association with the International Association for Applied Psychology conference at San Francisco, USA, the 1999 conference was at Belgirate in the Italian lakes, and the year 2000 conference will be at Vienna, Austria - full details are available on the Web.

 
• Sponsoring the Journal of Economic Psychology. The Association founded the journal, elects the Editor and Associate Editors, and supports the activity of the Editors and publishers in many ways. Members of the Association are entitled to a concessionary rate for personal subscriptions to the journal: for more information, write to the publishers (Elsevier Science Publishers, Postbus 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands).  STOP PRESS (February 1999)  Special offer on JoEP subscriptions for IAREP members!

 
• Publishing and distributing a regular Newsletter giving news of members and of their research activities. Members receive the Newsletter free.

 
• Supporting graduate Summer Schools in economic psychology.

 
• Supporting Workshops on special topics in economic psychology.

 
• Perhaps the most important way IAREP works, however, is as an informal network of friends and colleagues, which successfully crosses national and disciplinary frontiers. Many joint research projects have been launched through discussions held at IAREP meetings, and many research publications have originated in the cross-fertilisation of ideas that occurs when people of different backgrounds meet and discuss common problems with an open mind.

     the IAREP-Secretariat, School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Laboratories, Exeter EX4 4QG,
     United Kingdom - phone +44-1392-264626, fax +44-1392-264623, email n.e.jones@exeter.ac.uk
     the honorary secretary: Dr Henk Elffers, Department of the Sociology of Law, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The
     Netherlands.