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Psychology and Societal Development*

Rekha Singhal and P. S. N. Tiwari

INTRODUCTION

Growth is a natural process, but development involves intervention. Deliberate interventions are required to direct and accelerate growth and development selectively so as to achieve desired goals in the areas of priority. In recent years, in the discourse on development, the contribution of social sciences in general and of psychology in particular has increasingly gained the attention of researchers and planners at the national and international levels. For instance, the domain of national development is now considered a division of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and a number of institutions have been established in India. At the ...

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