As you read this, the 2015-2016 academic year is in full swing and we are gearing up to celebrate our 35th Anniversary of Psi Beta. Our Psi Beta chapters have been busy all across the country, holding planning meetings, coordinating campus events and inducting new members. Chapters are facilitating roundtable discussions on current topics in […]
Western Region Psi Beta News! By Kimberley Duff, VP Western Region This year was a phenomenal one for Psi Beta students! Over 40 students presented their independent research projects at the 95th Annual Western Psychological Association Conference at the Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. During a well-attended poster session, Psi Beta students thoroughly […]
The year was 1981. Ruth Hubbard Cousins, then Psi Chi’s Executive Director, and Ruth’s daughter, Carol Tracy, founded Psi Beta. Since that year, 40,348 community college students have become lifetime members of Psi Beta! Today there are over 140 Psi Beta chapters carrying out Psi Beta’s mission of increasing psychological literacy by providing students having […]
Many psychologists began their career pathway by completing their first two years of academic work at one of America’s community colleges. Because the Psi Beta honor society serves community college students, it is especially appropriate to recognize Community College Pathway Psychologists (CCPP) on Psi Beta’s national website. We are pleased to feature Dr. Bernardo Carducci […]
Remembering the life’s work of Dr. Dorothy Mitstifer Although she touched the lives of millions of college and university honor students, most would never recognize her name. But when she died in September 2015, she left a forty year legacy that will help to shape honor societies around the world and the students who enjoy […]
The 2015-16 National Research project will investigate factors related to academic self-regulation. Self-regulation is an important skill mastered by thriving students. Zimmerman (2000) defines self-regulation as a process in which the individual monitors his or her thoughts, feelings, and actions used for attaining long term goals. Self-regulation is a self-correcting, cyclical process in which the […]
How can Psi Beta chapters find a noted psychology expert to be a guest speaker? APA has developed a roster of over 200 experts who are registered in the new APA Speaker Network, and willing to share their expertise as speakers to local student and community groups. This national roster is arranged in zip code […]
Your chapter can host a screening and conversation about the Stanford Prison Experiment film based on the infamous psychology experiment created by Dr. Philip Zimbardo that inspired the work of the Heroic Imagination Project and encourage your students, school, or community to get involved in the effort to push back against evil and proliferate good […]
The Stark State College (North Canton, OH) Psi Beta Psychology Honor Society is proud to announce the opening of their “Students Serving Students” Food Pantry. The pantry officially opened at the beginning of the fall semester and approximately 30 students had been served by the end of October. Additional campus clubs have volunteered to assist […]
This was a year of growth and expansion for the QCC Psi Beta National Honor Society and QCC Psychology Club. We doubled our enrollment in Psi Beta. We had a wonderful group of engaged and ambitious officers, who actively promoted the organizations, both on and off campus. In fact, two of our officers are […]
Psi Beta National Honor Society’s Jaye Van Kirk recently participated in an outstanding global program. Van Kirk, a former National President of Psi Beta’s board of directors, took part in graduate studies in Australia this past summer through Miami University’s Project Dragonfly. Van Kirk of San Diego, CA, studied coral reef ecology and the conservation […]
