Our Crowdfunding Groups
Who we are
The Clinical Psychology Graduate Student Organization (CPGSO) works to uphold the 3 pillars of our mission: Service, Giving, and Growth.
We do this through community outreach, philanthropy, and by providing professional and personal development initiatives to our members– the graduate students in the Clinical Psychology program at WSU.
What we need
We are in a unique position as graduate students in the psychology department; not only are we students at WSU, but we are also therapists to and conduct assessment for students, staff, and community members. In addition to our roles as therapists, graduate students in our department serve as instructors, mentors, and researchers. From these positions we exert unique influence on the student body and broader WSU community.
Among the competencies that are essential for our ability to support the WSU community, is a firm foundational knowledge of issues related to diversity, equity, and anti-racism.
While these are topics incorporated into our coursework, now more than ever, we are seeing how essential it is that people in positions of influence go the extra mile in establishing habits, mentalities, and systems that disrupt racial inequity.
Your gift will go towards bringing targeted training to our students in the area of racial justice within psychology.
The effect of your gift will go beyond the individual students who go through this training; the knowledge we gain will inform our work at therapists, instructors, and researchers reverberating throughout the broader WSU community.
Dr. Carl Jung, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, wrote "Man and His Symbols". Your donation definitely symbolizes your generosity!
Sigmund Freud, a neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis, wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams". We think he'd interpret your donation as absolutely wonderful.
The Bobo doll experiments, conducted by Albert Bandura, classically demonstrate the effect modeling aggression has on children. Thanks for modeling generosity!
In a classic study of selective attention, Simons and Chabris found that while focussed on counting the number of passes a basketball team made, many people failed to notice a man in a gorilla costume walk across the court. We certainly haven't failed to notice your generous gift!
Walter Mischel's classic Marshmallow Experiment asked young children to wait alone in a room with a marshmallow, knowing that if they could resist eating it they would get 2 marshmallows. Turns out, delayed gratification is hard. We won't delay our gratitude to you for your kind gift!
The Halo Effect Experiment, conducted by Nisbett and DeCamp Wilson, demonstrates our tendencies to lump positive qualities together; for example, if we like someone we also tend to view them as more attractive, intelligent, and of good judgement. You must be a rocket-scientist/super-model because your generosity is really making your halo glow!
