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Putting psychology in context

Margaret McAllister, President of the Society from 1996-1997, gave her Presidential Address at the Society ’s Annual Conference in April 1997.

18 January 1998

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The effects of context on human behaviour have long been recognized. Psychology as a discipline operates in a wide variety of contexts and I propose to consider some of those contexts in this presentation, moving from the general to the particular.

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