2023 Distinguished Members of Psi Chi

We are excited to congratulate Dr. Martha S. Zlokovich and Dr. Paul Hettich for their selection as the 2023 Distinguished Members of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology! Drs. Zlokovich and Hettich were chosen by Psi Chi’s Board of Directors in recognition for their professional achievements in psychology and in the areas of research, service, teaching, and advancing the mission of Psi Chi.

This is truly the highest award available in our organization. In Psi Chi’s 93-year history, it has only been bestowed upon 46 individuals. Other Psi Chi Distinguished Members include Drs. Albert Bandura, Alice Eagly, Elizabeth Loftus, B. F. Skinner, Philip G. Zimbardo, and more.

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Emeritus at DePaul University (IL), received degrees in psychology at Marquette University, New Mexico State University, and Loyola University Chicago. He served as an Army personnel psychologist at an Armed Forces Entrance and Examining Station, program evaluator in a federally funded education R&D lab, and a corporate applied scientist with a focus on driver behavior research. These positions created a “real world” foundation for his career in college teaching and administration as a department chair, academic dean, grants writer, and related responsibilities at Barat College (IL), and subsequently as program chair at Barat College of DePaul University, retiring in 2005. He has spoken in numerous international, national, and local venues, authored or coauthored several journal articles, coauthored five books and three book chapters about study skills and collegeto-career concerns, and performed community service. He was inspired to write about workplace readiness issues based on his nonacademic experiences and by graduates and employers who complained of the disconnect between college and workplace cultures, expectations, and practices. He enjoyed writing 38 columns since 2010 for Eye on Psi Chi and coediting an eBook with Susan Iles and Bradly Cannon about career related topics for baccalaureate psychology graduates.

Martha S. Zlokovich, PhD

Dr. Martha S. Zlokovich, developmental psychologist, was a faculty member at Southeast Missouri State University for 17 years. There she served as Southeast’s Psi Chi and Psychology Club faculty advisor, her chapter won the Ruth Hubbard Cousins National Chapter Award, she earned full professor, served as Psychology Department Chair, Chair of Faculty Senate, and as Interim Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Office of Instructional Technology. She mentored students who presented and won research awards at MPA and published in Psi Chi’s research journal. She was elected to the local school board, as Midwestern VP and President of Psi Chi’s Board, President of Society for Psychologists in Leadership, President of Association of College Honor Societies, and she is currently treasurer for APA’s Division 52, International Psychology.

“Dr. Z” joined Psi Chi’s staff in 2008 as second Executive Director (as currently defined, with a doctorate in psychology) and has overseen growth of Psi Chi’s non-U.S. 50 state chapters from one to 31 chapters in 22 different countries/US territories. She was also instrumental in developing Psi Chi’s Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE): Crowd, an annual, crowd-sourced, global data collection project, and Psi Chi’s four Advisory Committees.