The Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP) is a scholarly society founded in 1971 with the purpose of the increasing and diffusing knowledge of the use of computers in psychological research.

History

The society's founding was initiated by Donald Tepas who asked for support from the National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

's Office of Computing Activities. Tepas wanted help with the development of intereactive system for searches. Instead, the NSF suggested that a conference be arranged and its proceedings published, which was indeed done.

Presidents

• President-Elect: Ping Li
  Ping Li
  Ping Li is a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in language acquisition, focusing on bilingual language processing in East Asian languages and connectionist modeling. Li received a B.A. in Chinese...
  
   2011-12
• President: Joseph Magliano (psychologist)
  Joseph Magliano (psychologist)
  Joseph Magliano is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy at the Northern Illinois University. He has researched widely in psychology with the recent focus being on the ways in which we understand what we read and watch...
  
   2010-11
• Immediate past president: Michael H. Birnbaum
  Michael H. Birnbaum
  Michael H. Birnbaum is a professor of Psychology and Director of the Decision Research Center at California State University, Fullerton. He has reaserched widely in psychology but his major focus has been on individual and social judgment and decision making, and the modelling of behavior...
  
  2009-10