Dear colleague, we would like to remind you that the 23rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences (SMABS) will be held at Tilburg University, Tilburg (The Netherlands) on July 1-3, 2002. More information can be found at the conference website http://www.kub.nl/smabs2002 You are still invited to present papers on theoretical developments and applications of statistical and data-analytical methods in the social and behavioral sciences. Abstracts may be submitted till February 15, 2002. Andries van der Ark on behalf of the Local Organizing Committee