The Chinese Psychological Society is a non-profit academic organization, established by a group of psychologists in China. It was founded in 1921^[1] and it is one of the earliest established national organizations in China, aiming at uniting all the psychologists to work and promote in the field of psychology.^[2]

Functions

• Organizing academic exchanges between different countries and holding academic meetings.^{[citation needed][who?]}
• Studying psychological subjects.^{[citation needed][who?]}
• Popularizing basic theories in this field and propagating the spirits, ideas and methods of science.^{[citation needed][who?]}
• Compiling and publishing psychological magazines.
• Holding tutorial classes.^{[citation needed][who?]}
• Awarding the membership to major contributors in psychological study.^{[citation needed][who?]}

Organizational structure

Chinese Psychological Society contains studies in every branch of psychology. The total number of membership is nearly 9000.^{[citation needed][when?]} There are local Psychological Societies in 31 provinces^{[citation needed][when?]} and provincial districts.

It publishes the journals Psychological Science and Acta Psychologica Sinica.