An evaluation of the impact of the European Association of Social Psychology: A response to Schruijer (2012)

Sandra Schruijer’s wrote a commendable and fascinating attempt to evaluate the impact of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology: ‘Whatever happened to the ‘‘European’’ in European social psychology? A study of the ambitions in founding the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology’. We submit that, notwithstanding the merits of her article, she has of necessity used a limited research design, but has aggravated this decision by failing to consider performance at baseline more critically and by choosing limited, even flawed, outcome measures. On this basis we are led to question the rather negative conclusions of her evaluation.