FPR

The Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation based in Los Angeles. The FPR was founded in December 1999 with a gift from Robert Lemelson, a documentary filmmaker and psychological anthropologist on the UCLA faculty. The FPR's scientific advisory board includes internationally recognized leaders in the fields of anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, neurobiology, epidemiology, and public health on the faculty at UCLA and USC... The FPR supports and advances interdisciplinary and integrative research and training on interactions of culture, neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology, with an emphasis on cultural processes as central... From 2001 to 2015, the FPR operated in 3-year cycles. Each funding cycle aimed to focus on a specific area of interest to a wide variety of researchers and scholars, and ended with with an international, interdisciplinary conference at UCLA.

Also known as: The FPR

Primary location: Santa Monica United States