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PSYCHOLOGISTS GATHER IN CAMBRIDGE FOR CONVENTION

All Sessions to be Held in Emerson Hall December 29, 30, and 31.

The 28th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association will take place at the. University on December 29, 30 and 31. All of the sessions will be held in Emerson Hall, while the annual dinner and smoker will take place in the Union Tuesday, the second day of the convention. The Boston headquarters of the Association will be the Hotel Bellevue, and arrangements have been made to accommodate the men in the Freshman dormitories, while the women will be housed at Radcliffe College.

The sessions will commence with an informal gathering and registration of members on Monday, the 29th. Following this there will be six short addresses on general psychology including one by G. Humphrey 2G., who will speak on "The Conditioned Reflex and the Freudian wish."

In the afternoon there will be an exhibition of new apparatus and teaching material. Several of the exhibitors will at this time give brief descriptions and demonstrations of apparatus. Two programs, one on experimental psychology, and the other on intelligence tests will occupy the remainder of the afternoon Mr. A. A. Roback of the University will give a short discussion of the "Psychology of Belief."

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