ABSTRACT
Although academic psychologists have long valued the benefits of maintaining international ties with colleagues at universities and research
institutions (e.g., Holtzman, 1970), it is perhaps only in the last 20 years that most psychology organizations have expressly adopted initiatives to establish systematic communication with psychologists and associations in other countries in order to pursue common goals (Friedlander, Carranza, & Guzman, 2002; see chaps. 2 and 3). This relatively recent interest seems to have grown not only from the attention given by the media to the general phenomenon of globalization (initially linked to trade relations and digital communications), but also from a perceived need that psychology as a discipline and profession would benefit from integrating theories, research methods, and applications used in other countries, including those in the so-called developing world.
