In the Presidium of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.

The Presidium of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences has heard and discussed a communication from the Secretary of its Department of Psychology and Developmental Physiology Academician A. V. Petrovskii, on the USSR Conference on Social Psychology held in Moscow at the end of last year.The conference was participated in by psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, educators, historians, and economists from the faculties and research laboratories of 11 universities 34 teachers colleges, and 20 research institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Forty-five scholars delivered papers or communications, or took the floor in discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]