The goals of this society are to promote, advance, and increase inclusion and exchange of ideas among the scholars in the many subfields of experimental psychology (including but not limited to behavior analysis, psychophysics, comparative, social, developmental, bio/physiological/neuropsychology/behavioral neuroscience, and the many topic areas of cognitive psychology, such as the study of memory, attention, language, intelligence, decision making, and so forth), both in basic and applied research.
For example, the following psychologists (listed in chronological order) have been elected to lead Division 3 as President (or Chairman in 1945): Edward C. Tolman, Edwin Ray Guthrie, Clarence H. Graham, Clark L. Hull & Frank A.
Beach, B.F. Skinner & WJ Brogden, Harry Harlow (1950), Harold H. Schlosberg, Neal E. Miller, Donald O. Hebb, James J. Gibson, Frank A. Geldard, Carl Pfaffmann, Judson S. Brown, William Kaye Estes.
Grant, WD Neff, Lorrin A. Riggs, Lyle V. Jones, Howard H. Kendler, Charles N. Cofer, Richard Soloman, Delos D. Wickens, Arthur W. Melton, Leo J. Postman (1970) James E. Deese, Frank W. Finger, James J. Jenkins, Richard C. Atkinson, Wendell Garner, Gordon H. Bower, Bert F Green, Jr., Frank A. Logan, George Mandler, G. Robert Give, Roger N. Shepard (1980), William Bevan, James Greeno, Julian Hochberg, Robert A. Rescorla, Henry C. Ellis, Herschel W. Liebowitz, Russell M. Church, Elizabeth Loftus, Sam Glucksberg, Stuart H. Hulse (1990), Lyle E. Bourne, Jr., J. Bruce Overmier, Walter Kintsch, Judith P. Goggin, Neal F. Johnson, Geoffrey Keppel, Vincent M. LoLordo, Harry Bahrick, Henry L. Roedigger III (2000), Douglas L. Nelson, Morton Ann Gershbacher, David A. Balota, Randall W. Engle, Alice F. Healy, Thomas R. Zentall, Howard Egeth, Edward Wasserman, Nelson Cowan, Ralph Miller, Jeremy Wolfe (2010), Karen Hollis, Mark A. McDaniel, Nancy Dess, David A. Washburn, Leah Light, Anne Cleary, Jonathon Crystal, Frank Farley, Stephen Goldinger (2020), Stephen J. Ceci, Valerie F. Reyna, Kristi Mulhaup.
SEPCS publishes a bi-annual newsletter, The Experimental Psychology Bulletin,[6] which encompasses member news, and recent awards, amongst others.