Welcome to the web site of the International Society for Comparative Psychology (ISCP). This society was founded in 1980 and held its first meeting in 1983. The ISCP

• Promotes the comparative study of behavior in human and nonhuman animals
• Sponsors a biannual meeting
• Publishes the scientific journal the International Journal of Comparative Psychology (IJCP).

The ISCP is an affiliate of the International Union of Psychological Sciences.

Upcoming Meeting!

14th Biennial Meeting
International Society for Comparative Psychology
October 9 to 11, 2008
Argentinean Scientific Society
Av. Santa Fe 1145
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Pre-registration is REQUIRED by September 19, 2008 in order to attend sessions and/or present a talk/poster.

Scientific Program

Keynote speaker
Stephen Suomi (National Institutes of Health, USA)
Risk, resilience, and gene X environment interactions in rhesus monkeys and other primates

Presidential address
Robert M. Murphey (University of California at Davis, USA)
Limits of natural selection

Invited conferences
Peter Balsam (Columbia University, USA)
Temporal information and conditioning

Victoria Chamizo (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Landmark learning: Sex differences in the Morris pool

Alex Kacelnik (Oxford University, UK)
Timing, no choice

John Staddon (Duke University, USA)
Timing and choice

Scheduled symposia involve topics ranging from neuroscience of emotion, to learning and evolution of vertebrate brain, recent progress in learning models, perinatal learning in human and animals, primate cognition and human causal learning.

Click Here for More Information Including Scheduled Symposia and Additional Speakers

(deadline for submission of abstracts was May 1, 2008)

It is now possible to register for the meeting by credit card. Please click here or follow the orange link at the top of the page for payment through PayPal.