International Relations: The SPSSI Committee on International Relations
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Abstract Within the international community of scholars interested in the behavioral study of international relations is a group of individuals comprising the Committee on International Relations of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). With less than a dozen members at any one time, the group is most informal, having no prescribed charter, organizational structure (other than the role of Chairman), or delimited term of membership. The Committee exists to encourage behavioral science research on problems in international relations, but implicitly at least, most if not all of the members aspire to have such research contribute to the improvement of relations among nations and the reduction of warfare as a means of settling differences. Specific means for achieving these ends have varied with the gradual turnover of membership, as well as with the learning process by which the Committee has discovered that some methods are more and less promising. Quite frankly, the Committee has...