B PsychEd

We are a group of Psychology undergraduates who wanted to create a community, so we formed our own club—and we welcome everyone to join, whether you're a psychology major or not. Our goal is to provide a platform to help undergraduates navigate the Psychology major. Our team includes a diverse range of students, from pre-med and pre-law tracks to double majors, all of whom are ready to offer mentorship and guidance to any student who might be feeling lost.

We warmly invite you to join our club—just fill out a simple interest form here. There's no commitment required; you'll be added to our Slack and email list, keeping you updated on upcoming workshops, speaker events, and research opportunities. Our general meetings are held every other Tuesday, and while attendance isn't mandatory, we'd love to see you there. To learn more, explore our sidebar for different ways to contact us!

General Member vs. Committee Member

Want to get more involved? Our club is organized into seven main committees that align with the major: Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Biological Psychology, and Social Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Psychology, and Cultural. Each committee will take on a semester-long project, whether it’s conducting research, writing a paper, or volunteering at a local elementary school. These committees also play a key role in organizing speaker events and workshops for our general meetings. Committee meetings will be held on the Tuesdays when we don’t have general meetings.

For our committee members, we have a brief application process to ensure a higher level of commitment. Please note that committee members are expected to attend meetings more consistently and may have additional meetings beyond the general meetings.

Committee Projects' Description

Clinical Psych: an empirical project uncovering determinants of chronic mental health issues in Bay Area undergraduates.

Social Psych: This semester we are doing a journal club. This means we’re going to discuss and take turns presenting about papers in social psychology. This committee is just as much about learning about research as it is social, so I hope we build a strong community together!

Developmental Psych: Our project explores how early experiences and individual differences such as attachment, resilience, and coping shape adult well-being and relationships, with members voting on which research focus to pursue.

Biological Psych: Our goal is to immerse our team into scientific research regarding a neuropsychology topic focused on drawing connections between our behavior and physical neural mechanisms or activated brain regions. Our research will build students’ skills in computational biology and running statistical analyses on large scale data with the end goal of observing patterns that provide insight into brain function. The choice of topic is up to our team, but we will provide guidance or example ideas when necessary. One example topic would be using fMRI datasets to analyze networks in the brain related to physical vs. emotional pain processing.

Industrial Organizational Psych: Industrial-Organizational Psychology is a branch of psychology dedicated to the scientific study of human behavior in organizations and the workplace. It applies psychological principles and research methods to understand, improve, and solve real-world organizational challenges. This year, our committee project will focus on identifying underlying recruitment bias through a resume-based study. 

Behavioral Psych: Our goal is to explore human behavior in inconspicuous settings. Projects centered around predicting human reactions given certain cues or other stimuli. Current project explores non-verbal cues of pedestrians during near head-on approaches.

Cultural Psych: This semester's project will explore how acculturative stress impacts identity and well-being among first-generation immigrant adults. We will be creating a survey, using the data to write a research paper and design a zine. Throughout the semester there will be various volunteer opportunities, this semester’s focused on aiding the Bay Area immigrant community.

We are a student group acting independently of the University of California. We take full responsibility for our organization and this web site.