Special issue - Bringing psychology to all societies

Since the first laboratory experiments by Wilhelm Wundt in 1898, psychology has developed rapidly. No longer reliant on the white-coated Prof studying rats or, at best, students in a lab, psychology now theorises human behaviour across cultures. The world is seen as a global village, and we expect research in one country to teach us about human behaviour in general. And, increasingly, the infrastructure is there to put the knowledge to work: national professional bodies, such as the British Psychological Society through its International Committee, have worked hard to make psychology a truly international discipline. Working across national boundaries, the International Association for Applied Psychology has divisions in almost all corners of the world.

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