Note des rédacteurs et de la rédactrice invité(e)s A Word from the Issue Editors

It has been an extremely interesting, although occasionally hectic, experience working together on what became a truly collaborative, three-way communication effort among authors, reviewers, and editors. This collection of papers, thematically arranged, will be seconded by a group of papers dealing with roots and precursors of social psychology and its development, in applied contexts, to appear later in 1992 in a special issue of the French sociological journal Sociétés Contemporaines. The original papers at the conference were generally limited to 7 pages. Our international group of authors (including a large Canadian delegation) prepared them for publication, received feedback from the reviewers and editors and continued reworking their papers. Together, we pondered what positive, concrete steps could be suggested to improve the papers as to their scholarly accuracy, clarity of argument, rigour of interpretation, and communicability to the journal's readers--for the most part non-specialists in the area of the history of social psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)