SIOP and Division 14 Timeline
- 1945: Division 14 (Industrial and Business Psychology) founded
- 1946: First APA conference programming for Division 14
- 1949: First newsletter published
- 1962: Name changed to APA Division 14, Industrial Psychology
- 1964: The first issue of TIP IS published
- 1973: Name changed to APA Division 14, Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- 1980: Principles for Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures is published
- 1982: Division 14 incorporated as the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Inc.
Division 14 Early Bylaws
Read the original guidelines from when SIOP was Division 14 of the APA that built the foundation for what is now SIOP.
Early Executive Board Minutes
View copies of the Division 14 Executive Committee meeting minutes from 1946, 1947, and 1949 in the January 1997 volume of TIP.
President Moore Letter
Read a letter from the first President of Division 14, Bruce V. Moore, to members of the Division’s Executive Committee.
Foundational Articles
Read articles about the early days of Division 14:
- Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. has written an excellent history of Division 14 and SIOP
- A history of the days before Division 14 and SIOP
- James L. Farr wrote an article in TIP on the creation of Division 14
- Fred Wickert reminisced about the American Association for Applied Psychology’s reunification with APA in 1946
- An undated report by Harold Burtt, Leonard Ferguson, and Douglas Freyer, later published in the January 1997 issue of TIP, covers the early history of the predecessor to Division 14
