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1. This is a brief report on the American Fsychological Associntion Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, 1-9 Sentember 1953. The undersi, ned took this trin at his owm exoense and with the concurrence of and the period he vas absent from the office vas not considered as leave.

2. Leaving iashington on Thursday, 3 Sertember 1253, I attenied the meetinrs of the convention on 4 and 5 Sectember and then drove to Detroit, liichigan uhere I intervievod and hrouelit him un to date rezording the develoments of the pronosed research project. in Detroit. I returned to the convention and attended mectings on 8 and 9 Sentember and then returned to iashington. The meetins ore held in five widel sonarated hotels and school buildings uiich made attendance difficult as meetings vore held simultaneously at different locations.

3. The "oneral horession of the mectings was not es fevorahle es soe others boccuso the papers thenselvcs wore lirited to twelve minutes and thore wore a good many symposiums uhich were nore extemporanoous rather than plonned present-ticns. The movies presented at the mestings were not interestin; fron our point of view although technically the. uore very good in the abnormnt and nsychiatric fields. The meeting on stress and anxiety was not as interosting os the title mirht leed one to emect. Chenical anelysis of the. hlood was made before and eftor indiváduals went through jumn trainin:; with tho Air Force. Controlled groups vero comnared vith those going throuh juap training. . Chomical changes vore noto' in the oxrerinental rroun bvi. the findins erosanted nothir: now over the literoture of the nest manry years.

h. Thou h I didt not attend the neetinz on Rorschach tests iven fter hyoncticall indnced hostility, roorts fron those tho attondel shored thare ues rery little not arosented and the hposis vas the vsunl. classroon tyne ani lir cly e stulv of the Rorschach test.

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STÉDANO FORN HO. 54

To: Chief, Technical Branch

DATE: 2/1 Septomber 1953

sUBjECT: Renort on Amertcan Fsycholorical Association Convention.

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5. The olysiolorical meetings vere interestin: but nothin ver: new wes presented. Temporary relief of fcar by sodiun-nentobarbital injection was what vas to be exected with the drug end exoerimental setup presented.

6. The meeting on the nreference for saccarin uas an attemot to deternine whether saccarin or sodium is the attraction factor in rats who are starved. The results of the red-green discrinination in the dog were nerative.

7. Thore was a much larzer mumber of indnstrial osychologists who attended the meeting and many of the symuosiums were devoted to the introduction of nsychological techniues in industrial groups. Sunmaries of the oaners will be available later and the complete re'orts of the rresidents of thevarious sections will be printed in full.