PSI CHI AND INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

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RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics

Since 2009, when Psi Chi became the International Honor Society in Psychology, outstanding faculty and students across many nations have stepped forward to join the Psi Chi family of 750000 life members in 1130 schools on six continents. How is the Psi Chi experience changing lives around the world, as it has been doing since 1929 in the USA? Here, for the first time, Psi Chi “pioneers” in 9 international Chapters share in their own words and images their Psi Chi experiences.

RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, 2019

In 2019, Psi Chi celebrates its 90th and 10th birthdays as the National and International Honor Society in Psychology. This review of the glorious history of Psi Chi is in three parts: (1) its current mission, serving over 750000 life members in 1130 college campuses world-wide; (2) its humble but inspiring origins in 1929 at Yale University; (3) four points of impressive courage within the history of Psi Chi - in 1929, 1959, 1981, and 2009; and also includes a bibliography, for international and U.S. readers to access prior histories of Psi Chi.

RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics

The volume entitled Vision and Resources for International Psychology was published in 2018 and dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the International Council of Psychologist (ICP). Editors reminded in the Preface, that ICP was founded in 1941 in New York City, and from its starts has vigorously promoted crossnational psychology. This third ICP anniversary volume contains three parts: (1) about ICP past, its growth, current activities, and summaries of the annual ICP conferences in Yokohama (2016) and New York City (2017); (2) Resources for International Psychology includes seven essays by 12 experts, on how to be more involved in international psychology; (3) Visions of International Psychology from thirty one leaders of global psychology. A brief 2-page review of this book was published recently in International Psychologist (Congress, 2018). In this article, we present a more detailed and comprehensive overview of the volume. Part I. International Council of Psychologists (ICP) This part of the book includes some summaries of presentations at the ICP meetings in Yokohama in 2016 and New York City in 2017, and four brief essays by former ICP presidents.

Trends in Psychology, 2023

This is an ideal time to gather a special issue focused on the processes, content, and outcomes of internationalization in psychology. Although psychology has aspired to be an internationally engaged, globally relevant discipline since its inception, explicit attempts to define, promote, and justify internationalization have gained traction in recent years (e.g., . The goals of Internationalization in scientific research in psychology are to support a knowledge base that is a mosaic of multiple perspectives and data points to represent the breadth and diversity of experience. Psychology's traditional scientific corpus, based almost exclusively on a small slice of the world's human population (or a small range of animal species), assumed a cloak of broad generalizability that is now challenged in many areas of study . Ideally, an increasingly international knowledge base would contribute to a psychological science that is robust enough to develop general principles of behavior yet nuanced enough to be applicable and relevant across wide variations in cultural structures, needs, and assumptions. Accomplishing these goals requires a shift in the organizing framework of psychology that has described psychological science for at least the past 70 years-a framework that has placed some countries at the center of scientific production and others at the periphery. The needed shift is a framework that encourages globally relevant input, inclusion, and mechanisms to promote an active global lens. To do this involves establishing multiple partnerships and collaborations with researchers across countries and cultures in conducting psychological research projects, sharing resources and knowledge, and promoting cross-cultural understanding and exchange . These are tall requirements, but they seem more within reach now than at any other time in the past. The COVID-19 pandemic had catastrophic effects on the * Claudia Zúñiga

In M. Milcu, M. Stevens, & S. Neves de Jesus (Eds.), Rethinking applied psychology: Research paradigms vs. practical approaches (pp. 33-41). Bucharest, Romania: Editura Universitara., 2020

Due to globalization, international psychology stands at the forefront of specialty fields in contemporary psychology. International psychology arose from dissatisfaction with the insufficient explanations offered by reductionism, overgeneralization of research findings across cultures and countries, and need for a contextually informed, socially responsible discipline and profession. International psychology represents an antidote to those limitations by seeking to understand and address the psychosocial and sociocultural dimensions of pressing global concerns and empirically derive cross-cultural and transnational similarities and differences in the manifestation of psychological phenomena. International psychology is an umbrella field that subsumes several other intersecting psychologies. International psychology also has an educational and training agenda to ensure the cross-cultural and transnational competence of future psychologists entering the global workforce. A focus-group study of recent alums and advanced graduate students in international psychology yielded important recommendations for the sustained well-being of the field and for assisting educators to design courses that better meet the career needs of students.

Last September, a combined Colombian national and Latin American regional conference were held in Armenia, Colombia. The Colombian Congress of Psychology and the First Regional Latin American Conference of Psychology were hosted by the Colombian College of Psychologists, and the Colombian Association of Faculties of Psychology, with support from the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. This was a landmark event in the history of Colombian psychology. There were more than 2200 participants, and over 1000 presentations in an intense agenda that combined a national, regional and international focus. The international schedule, linked to the regional conference, had the goal of creating a framework for future work in Latin America, aimed at building and strengthening the capacities of psychology as a discipline and as a profession in our countries. The conference was attended by representatives of psychology organizations in Mexico,

There has been a substantial increase in the percentage for publications with co-authors located in departments from different countries in 12 major journals of psychology. The results are evidence for a remarkable internationalization of psychological research, starting in the mid 1970s and increasing in rate at the beginning of the 1990s. This growth occurs against a constant number of articles with authors from the same country; it is not due to a concomitant increase in the number of co-authors per article. Thus, international collaboration in psychology is obviously on the rise.

The literature indicates several advantages and difficulties associated with international scientific cooperation. Due to the need to identify possible areas for cooperation between researchers in Latin America—a way of strengthening cooperation networks—the present qualitative study investigated the meaning of cooperation among Latin American authors and proposals to pursue this endeavor. A purposive sample of 26 researchers responded to 2 open questions. The responses were subjected to thematic analysis. Regarding the meaning of partnerships with other Latin American authors, 7 themes were proposed with focus on identifying the advantages and scope of cooperation and its long-term influence on the scientific and educational fields. The proposals for facilitating Latin American cooperation in psychology were arranged into 8 thematic groups. Based on the researchers’ responses, the study results show the meaning of international cooperation in Latin America and proposals for its development; in addition, they reveal the complexity of regional cooperation, which involves not only scientific research, but also educational cooperation and the organization of scientific events.

English): Increasingly, the United States is becoming internationalized as a result of sophisticated communication technologies that put us in touch with countries known previously to only a few, through economic development and multinational investment, and by the immigration of people who are sometimes fleeing hostile homelands. US citizens, like others abroad, will need to be responsive to the demands of a multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational society. The challenges of this changing world can and will range from such dilemmas as ethical decisions of who can and will have access to expensive technology that saves and prolongs life; to the development of conflict management strategies for peaceful coexistence with neighbors whose behaviors, beliefs, and values are strongly shaped by their religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances. With the inauguration of this section, US psychology is invited to consider its contribution to meeting the needs of a changing society. Abstract Increasingly, the United States is becoming internationalized as a result of sophisticated communication technologies that put us in touch with countries known previously to only a few, through economic development and multinational investment, and by the immigration of people who are sometimes fleeing hostile homelands. U.S. citizens, like others abroad, will need to be responsive to the demands of a multiethnic, multiracial, and multinational society. The challenges of this changing world can and will range from such dilemmas as ethical decisions of who can and will have access to expensive technology that saves and prolongs life; to the development of conflict management strategies for peaceful coexistence with neighbors whose behaviors, beliefs, and values are strongly shaped by their religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic circumstances. With the inauguration of this section, U.S. psychology is invited to consider its contribution to meeting the needs of a changing society.