A Message from the Division 1 President A Message from the Division 1 President Welcome Out of the ashes of the web site of yesteryear arises our new web page. And we have done all this just at the brink of a new millennium. The vaunted New York Times keeps counting the number of days to the millennium as if some act of God were to occur when in fact all that will happen is manufactured by our own behavior, that is, by the way we constructed our calendar. On the other hand, as psychologists, we must emphasize that language behavior is not to be ignored.
Words can hurt but they can also heal.
Words can confuse but they can also explain. For that reason, we must study language so that society does more of the latter and less of the former in both cases. We must do what we can to understand our behavior and to help those in need to change it for the better. Our Society for General Psychology is here to bring back all of the specialists in various aspects of behavior to the basics and to those laws that pertain to all of psychology. Specialization must always, in the end, return to placing its findings among those laws that pertain to all of psychology.