ACP 2012 - ACP 2012 : The Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences 2012

The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global partners is proud to announce the Second Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences, to be held from March 30 - April 1 2012, at the Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Hear the latest research, publish before a global audience, present in a supportive environment, network, engage in new relationships, experience Japan, explore Osaka and Kyoto, join a global academic community...

This international and interdisciplinary conference will bring together a range of psychologists, medical doctors and a wide assortment of social scientists to discuss outside the traditional confines of narrow fields of specialism, and in new directions of research and discovery in psychology and the behavioral sciences. As with IAFOR's other events, and by bringing together a number of university scholars working throughout Japan, Asia, and beyond to share ideas, ACP 2012 will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education and beyond.

Conference Theme: "Trust"

Trust is an integral aspect of our daily lives. In our interactions, transactions, decisions, and communication and behavioural acts, we are, directly or indirectly, with varying degrees of consciousness, invoking trust in our actions. Trust is basic to human life. It is the critical concept in the first stage of Erik Erikson's psycho-social development theory. It is critical because it is fundamental to healthy long-term psychological and social development, and impinges on the most important aspects of our lives. In a changing world, and in times of disaster or crisis, trust becomes even more critical in our lives, especially for the most vulnerable or the least powerful, and in relationships where trust is necessary for rebuilding and developing new goals, visions, and ideas. Trust in governments, in global institutions, in removed decision-makers, is also more and more necessary, and at the same time more and more difficult, in our globalised world.

Trust involves an acknowledgement of risk. Blind trust, the devoted belief in someone or something, is thus not genuine trust, but a dangerous and unhealthy dependence. Genuine trust ? a form of risk-taking with your eyes wide open ? is an ideal, perhaps idealistic, form of trust, both healthier and more difficult to practice. A focus on trust helps us to transform the way we see our relationships, our commitments, our communities, and our lives. It would also help us develop a deeper understanding of trust, its bases, its forms, its determinants and influences, how we promote, create, maintain and rebuild it, and how it impacts the important aspects of our lives.