Western Psychological Association

{{short description|American psychology learned society}}

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| formation = 1921

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| type = Learned society

| status = 501c3

| purpose = Psychological research

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| location = California

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| region = Western United States

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| membership = 1,917

| membership_year = 1962

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| leader_title = President

| leader_name = Gregory Feist

| leader_title2 = President-elect

| leader_name2 = Patricia Flynn

| leader_title3 = Past president

| leader_name3 = Mark Costanzo

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| affiliations = American Psychological Association

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| website = {{url|http://westernpsych.org}}

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The Western Psychological Association (abbreviated WPA) is an American learned society dedicated to the study of psychology and other behavioral sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://westernpsych.org/about-wpa/ |title=About WPA |date=2013-09-04 |website=WPA Web Site |language=en-US |access-date=2017-09-02}} It is a regional association focused on the Western United States, and is affiliated with the American Psychological Association.{{Cite web |url=http://www.apa.org/about/apa/organizations/regionals.aspx |title=Regional Psychological Associations |website=American Psychological Association |language=en |access-date=2017-09-02}} It promotes psychological research through an annual conference, which it has held since its founding, and where psychologists read their research papers to one another. Reports from these conferences were originally published in Psychological Bulletin starting in 1924, and are now published in American Psychologist.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA357 |title=Scientific and Technical Societies of the United States and Canada |date=1899 |publisher=National Academies |pages=357 |language=en}}