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HISTORY
The Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology was born out of a forum held during the annual meeting of the Australian Psychological Society in 1973. The forum was held to discuss the need to form a society to ensure that conferences are held for Australasian experimental psychologists to come together to discuss research in an annual scientific exchange. At that meeting, chaired by Prof. Ross Day from Monash University, it was decided that the inaugural Experimental Psychology Conference would be held in 1974 at Monash University. Each year a keynote address, titled the Ross Day Plenary, is given to honour the central figure in the founding of our annual meeting.
Ross Day
Until 1997, Experimental Psychology Conferences were organised on an ad hoc basis. The growing size and stature of the meeting required a more formal organization, so the decision to form and register the Australasian Experimental Psychology Society was taken at the 1997 meeting at Deakin University. The society was formally incorporated in Western Australia, and since 2006 it has had one Registered Public Officer, Emeritus Professor David Badcock of the University of Western Australia.
David Badcock