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The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) is an independent organization established in 1936, on the basis of psychology and social science. The Society's headquarters are located in Washington, D.C. and is affiliated with the American Psychological Association as APA Division 9. It has approximately 3000 members consisting of psychologists, allied scientists and other social studies interests, who desire to research the psychological aspects of important social issues and actively influence public policy solutions. SPSSI has a long history of organizing psychologists' involvement in social issues within it's own boarders and around the globe. The society played a key role in the preparation of social science briefs in Brown v. Board of Education. It publishes several academic journals, including the quarterly Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy and the triannual Journal of Social Issues.

Founding
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) was founded in 1936 by several psychologists including its first president, Dr. Goodwin Watson. The purpose of the organization was to understand social issues and use psychological research to help shape public policy concerning those issues. The organization's interest in both social issues and politics has meant that it is frequently the subject of controversy. In 1942 and subsequently throughout the late 1940s and 1950s members of the SSPI were investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for "subversive activity" based on their political affiliations and areas of research. Following these early difficulties the SPSSI worked to reafim a focus on objective research to help maintain a more neutral approach to integrating social psychological research and public policy.

Goodwin Watson
A founding member and first president of the SPSSI, Watson was an American social psychologist who's primary interest was the use of psychological research to address social issues and effect change soociety. In pursuit of that goal, Watson helped found the SPSSI in 1936, served as its first president and remained a contibuting member for the remainder of his career.

Rensis Likert
An American psychologist best known for his work in developing the 5-point Likert Scale.

Kenneth and Mamie Clark
Mamie Clark’s research on how segregation affects the development of children’s personalities was published by her husband Kenneth.

Government Service During World War II
Many of the founding psychologists of the SPSSI including served in United States government offices during World War II. Through both their positions and connections with the SPSSI these individuals

Desegregation
In the United States Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, SPSSI members presented research and served as expert witnesses to testify against racial segregation.

SPSSI Presidents Since 1936
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 * 1936 Goodwin Watson
 * 1937 Gardner Murphy
 * 1938 George W. Hartmann
 * 1939 Edward C. Tolman
 * 1940 Floyd Allport
 * 1941 Kurt Lewin
 * 1942 Otto Klineberg
 * 1943 Gordon W. Allport
 * 1944 Ernest R. Hilgard
 * 1945 Theodore Newcomb
 * 1946 Rensis Likert
 * 1947 Hadley Cantril
 * 1948 Ronald O. Lippitt
 * 1949 Daniel Katz
 * 1950 David Krech
 * 1951 Stuart W. Cook
 * 1952 Dorwin Cartwright
 * 1953 Eugene Hartley
 * 1954 S. Stansfeld Sargent
 * 1955 Marie Jahoda
 * 1956 Alvin F. Zander
 * 1957 R. Nevitt Sanford
 * 1958 M. Brewster Smith
 * 1959 Kenneth Clark
 * 1960 Morton Deutsch
 * 1961 Isidor Chein
 * 1962 John R. P. French Jr.
 * 1963 Jerome S. Bruner
 * 1964 Herbert C. Kelman
 * 1965 Jerome D. Frank
 * 1966 Milton Rokeach
 * 1967 Thomas Pettigrew
 * 1968 Martin Deutsch
 * 1969 Robert Chin
 * 1970 Robert L. Kahn
 * 1971 Marcia Guttentag
 * 1972 Harold M. Proshansky
 * 1973 Bertram H. Raven
 * 1974 Albert Pepitone
 * 1975 Harry C. Triandis
 * 1976 Ezra Stotland
 * 1977 Lawrence Wrightsman
 * 1978 June Louin Tapp
 * 1979 Cynthia Deutsch
 * 1980 Leonard Bickman
 * 1981 Clara Weiss Mayo
 * 1982 Martha T. Mednick
 * 1983 Lois W. Hoffman
 * 1984 Marilynn Brewer
 * 1985 Joseph McGrath
 * 1986 Phyllis Katz
 * 1987 Jeffery Z. Rubin
 * 1988 Seymour Feshbach
 * 1989 Jacqueline Goodchilds
 * 1990 Stanley Sue
 * 1991 Faye Crosby
 * 1992 Sally Shumaker
 * 1993 Stuart Oskamp
 * 1994 Virgina O'Leary
 * 1995 Michele Wittig
 * 1996 Dalmas Taylor
 * 1997 Barbara Gutek
 * 1998 Rhoda Unger
 * 1999 John Dovidio
 * 2000 Jenny Crocker
 * 2001 Geoffrey Maruyama
 * 2002 Louis Penner
 * 2003 James M. Jones
 * 2004 Kay Deaux
 * 2005 Marybeth Shinn
 * 2006 Irene Hanson Frieze
 * 2007 Daniel Perlman
 * 2008 Susan Opotow
 * 2009 Eugene Borgida
 * 2010 James Jackson
 * 2011 Maureen O'Connor
 * 2012 Allen Omoto
 * 2013
 * 2014
 * 2015

Organization
There are four different memberships one can have in SPSSI.
 * Full Member
 * Student Member
 * Life Member
 * Sustaining Member

SPSSI also offers Fellow positions. This is a respected title throughout the Society that persons deserving of recognition for excellent improvement of the psychological aspects of social issues and the Society can be elected for. There are three types of Fellows in SPSSI; members who belong to APA, members of SPSSI who are already Fellows of different APA divisions, and members who don't belong to APA. Qualifications include being a SPSSI/APA member for at least one year and example of "unusual or outstanding contributions or performance" in psychology or specified area (for SPSSI). The process to become a SPSSI Fellow begins with a nomination, by an existing member or by self-nominating, followed by an application process. There is a review of nominee's work and at least three supporting letters from current Fellows that evaluate the contributions.

Member Responsibilities and Qualifications
Full member requires doctoral degree in a psychological (or other related field to the society) from an accredited program. Student members extend to both graduate and undergraduate students studying in a discipline related to the organization. Both of these memberships require annual fees; full members vary in price from $40 - $100. The student membership is $25 a year. Life Members are members who have aged to sixty-five while maintaining Full Member status for twenty years. Once approved, they will no longer have dues and maintain all rights of being a full member. Full members under the age of sixty-five can request for Sustaining Member status. This is where they would make a one-time membership fee and retain their status for life. This status and the amount is decided upon by the society’s council.

Member Benefits
For those who become members of SPSSI reap many benefits directly from the group including subscriptions to all journals and newsletters published by SPSSI (Journal of Social Issues, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, & Social Issues and Policy Review). A 25% discount is applied to all books published by them and Wiley. Discounts are also applied to SPSSI conference registration fees for members. Within the society, members are allowed to partake in annual voting and have access to the membership directory. Benefits also include access to participate on the Society's forum, which consistently has open discussions on new topics, review or plans of upcoming events, job postings and other topics.

Applied Social Issues Internship
The Applied Social Issues Internship is awarded to any undergraduate, graduate, first-year post doctorates that are studying psychology, applied social sciences, and other similar fields

The Clara Mayo Grants
The Clara Mayo Grant awards SPSSI members who are enrolled in graduate programs in psychology, applied social sciences, other similar fields, and who are researching the realm of sexism, racism, or prejudice

Crosby-Spendlove Travel Grant
The Crosby Spendlove Award is given to a graduate student enrolled in either a Master's or Ph.d program that is the first or sole author on a presentation for the SPSSI Biennial Conference. Preference is given to a student who is presenting research coming from a feminist and social justice perspective

Grants-in-Aid Program
The Grants-in-Aid award is given to a graduate student who is proposing to research social problem areas that are not likely to receive support from other traditional sources.

Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize
The Gordon Allport Prize is given to the best paper of that year that focused on intergroup relations )

Innovative Teaching Award , Louise Kidder Early Career Award , The Michele Alexander Early Career Award for Scholarship and Serivce , The Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award , SPSSI Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring , The Kurt Lewin Award , The Social Issues Dissertation Award , The Sages Program , Small-Scale Events Advancing SPSSI (SEAS) Grants , SPSSI Teaching Award