On January 19, 2013, during the SPSP annual meeting, the leadership of the Society held a special meeting to discuss with our members issues important to the Society and the field. Following is a summary of the discussion.

At a special open meeting at SPSP 2013 in New Orleans, members voiced their thoughts to the SPSP leadership about a number of issues that have arisen for the field and the Society over the past year – from cases of fraud within social psychology and the ongoing discussion about replicability, to new infrastructure changes and education and outreach opportunities.

The Society's leadership, as well as several members, expressed confidence and optimism about the health of personality and social psychology, as evidenced by a strong and growing set of scientists and continued excellent published research. Several members voiced support for more measures to make failures to replicate previous findings more accessible to other scientists, as well as to encourage replication. Both psychfiledrawer.org and openscience.org are good existing resources on these topics, people mentioned. Jennifer Crocker, a previous SPSP president, talked about some of the recommendations of a task force that she chaired this past year on ways the field can tackle issues of concern and develop guidelines for best practices in the field.

Members also suggested making more educational resources more widely available about best practices in statistics and methodology, and they asked that the Society consider developing guidelines for ethics and methodology training in our universities.

In general, members were very interested in seeing the SPSP website expand to include more educational resources. Other suggestions included making available recordings of select meeting symposia, posting an archive of the meeting posters, and posting online TedTalks or other videos that feature our scientists speaking about topics vital to the field.

The SPSP President David Funder and Past President Patricia Devine both emphasized that the Society has grown in its size and complexity over the past decade, now necessitating a staff composed of business professionals in addition to our terrific member volunteers. The Society has already benefited tremendously, they said, from recently hired professional staff, in particular the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The CFO has been implementing accounting standards to ensure that the Society's financial assets are carefully and properly managed.

The Executive Committee has begun considering a formal proposal for expanding the staff and possibly setting up a physical headquarters for the Society. Jack Dovidio, the SPSP Executive Officer, encouraged members to continue to voice suggestions about ways the Society can better serve them.

We plan to post a suggestion box to our website, to encourage a continued open dialogue between our members and leaders. We also plan to continue holding open meeting such as today's in the future.