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Interested in being a research assistant?
One of the best ways to learn about psychology is to be a research assistant (RA). As an RA you will likely see studies in all stages of development and you will receive hands on experience in several different aspects of research. Below you will find a list of labs currently looking for research assistants. Most positions will offer course credit if you work a certain number of hours a week in the lab. A few positions are available for volunteers and offer no compensation. If you are interested in a position please contact the individual listed according the contact information listed below.
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To post an ad for a research assistant position in the Psychology Department please email the Human Subjects Coordinator at hscoordinator@lists.stanford.edu
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Mind, Culture, and Society Lab
Lab website: http://psychology.stanford.edu/~mcslab/
Project 1: Race and Space
Do spaces have races? This project investigates whether people assign racial labels to certain locations (for example, inner cities are Black and suburbs are White). One line of work asks how being primed with these racially imbued locations affects the way we think and feel about the people associated with them. Another line of work asks how being primed with either White people or Black people affects the way we perceive, treat, and value a physical location. Finally, we are investigating how these findings can be applied to different domains of racial bias, including housing discrimination, resource allocation in schools, and environmental racism.
Project 2: The Politics of Mixed Race
This research investigates the way mixed race identity is represented within mainstream America, as well as within American politics more specifically. We are interested in whether this identity is used to forward an agenda that supports taking a "colorblind" approach to diversity. Our studies ask: Is mixed race identity represented in a way that invalidates the use of race-conscious social policy? Are potential voters influenced by these representations when deciding whether to support policies like Affirmative Action?
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Jennifer Eberhardt, Hazel Markus, and Brian Lowery
Preferred contact information: Courtney Bonam, cbonam@stanford.edu
Duties of the position and hours a week: at least 6 hrs/week, run participants, develop online studies and study stimuli
Qualifications of applicant: familiarity with excel and spss is a plus but not a necessity, willingness to learn new computer programs (including remark web survey software and adobe photoshop), willingness to run study sessions
Compensation: course credit, volunteer, or work study
Other information: RA's will be involved at all levels of the research process--from forming ideas, to analyzing data and interpreting results. RA's will also have the opportunity to interact with senior faculty. Please feel free to contact me with questions and to set up a time to meet if you are interested.
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Cognitive Development Lab
Lab association: Prof. Ellen Markman's Cognitive Development Laboratory
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Prof. Ellen Markman and Andrei Cimpian (graduate student)
Preferred contact information: acimpian@psych.stanford.edu
Project description: We are investigating how language influences preschool children's stereotyping and, more generally, their thinking about social categories. If you're interested, please contact me at acimpian@psych.stanford.edu , and I can provide you with more details.
Duties of the position and hours a week: Mainly testing children at Bing Nursery School (on campus). Some transcribing and coding of data. 6-9 hours a week commitment required.
Qualifications of applicant: PSYCH 1 and PSYCH 60 (Intro to Developmental Psychology)
Compensation: Course credit
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Cognitive Development Lab
Lab association: Cognitive Development Lab
Lab website: http://psychology.stanford.edu/~scjlab/About%20Us.html
Professor: Dr. Susan Johnson
Preferred contact information: Maria Barth, Research Coordinator: mbarth84@stanford.edu, (650) 736-2230
Project description: Attachment, Theory of Mind
Duties of the position and hours a week: RAs assist in conducting studies of cognitive development in young children. In addition, RAs call parents to schedule appointments and assist with general lab tasks. 6-9 hrs/wk.
Qualifications of applicant: All majors welcome to apply.
Compensation: Federal work-study, course credit, and volunteer positions available. Course credit (Psych 195): 3 units = 9 hrs/wk. 2 units = 6 hrs/wk. Work-study: You may work 6 hrs/wk or more, but cannot exceed your FWS allowance.
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Life-span Development Lab
Lab association: Life-span Development Lab
Lab website: http://psychology.stanford.edu/~lifespan/
Professor: Dr. Laura Carstensen
Preferred contact information: lifespan@psych.stanford.edu or 650-725-6855
Project description: Our lab conducts projects examining emotion, motivation, and cognition across the life-span using behavioral and neuroscience approaches.
Duties of the position and hours a week: The specific duties and hours will depend on prior experience, interest, and availability.
Qualifications of applicant: Applicants should be interested in being part of the psychology research process.
Compensation: Psychology 171 (4 credits/semester for 2 semesters) or Psychology 195 (3 units = 9 hrs/wk, 2 units = 6 hrs/wk), or volunteer.
Other Information: Please feel free to contact us using the information provided above to learn more about our research.
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Stanford Learning Lab
Lab association: Stanford Learning Lab
Lab website:http://thelearninglab.stanford.edu/
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Hanna Muenke and Jen
Wagner (grad students) with Michael Ramscar and Susan Johnson
(Professors)
Preferred contact information: hmuenke@stanford.edu
Project description: Infants learn about the world around them at an
astounding pace, and our research aims to understand how they do that.
In a series of studies with 4-10 month old infants, we are trying to
understand two central questions about infant perception. First,
before infants have any formal knowledge about numbers and quantity,
how precisely do they perceive quantity (e.g., do 2 and 3 tones sound
identical to a young infant)? Second, how do young infants make
predictions about patterns that appear in their environment (e.g., if
a set of keys are hidden twice in one location and once in a second
location, where will they look for the keys on the next trial)?
Duties of the position and hours a week: We are looking for motivated
students with experience interacting with infants and young children
to work in our lab. Responsibilities will include helping run studies
with young infants, recruiting families to participate, and preparing
data for analysis. Due to training time, we are looking for students
who can commit to at least two quarters, preferably for at least 6
hours a week.
Qualifications of applicant: Interest in working with infants. Other
training will be provided.
Compensation: Course credit
preferred, Work-study may be possible.
Other information: Cognitive
development is exciting! Please come talk to us if you'd like to
learn more about the research we do.
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Psychological Barriers to health promotion/health services
Lab association: Psychological Barriers to health promotion/health services
Overview of the research you are conducting:
We look at psychological barriers to positive health behaviors. We create and apply psychological theory to show how psychology can influence health policy and health economics. For example: would price subsidies for flu shots increase rates of testing for stigmatized diseases such as HIV? Would people be more likely to take a medication if they were told there is a low risk of side effects for the medication compared to the actual percentage risk? Will people who pay less for health services be more likely to engage in risky health behaviors down the line?
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Monin/Young
Preferred contact information: seany@psych.stanford.edu
Project description: Help with preparation of theory, development and running of study, data input. No background needed, but need commitment needed throughout the entire quarter.
Duties of the position and hours a week: flexible
Qualifications: credit/volunteer
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Clark Lab
Lab Association: Clark Lab
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Professor Herb Clark and Michelle Gumbrecht (Graduate Student)
Preferred contact information: Michelle Gumbrecht, mgumbrec@psych.stanford.edu
Project description: How do people decide on a method of communication when initiating a joint activity? This project brings communication and psycholinguistic research together to determine the factors that influence communication media selection across the entire spectrum of communication methods, including blogs, texting, and Social Networking Sites.
Duties of the position and hours a week: RAs will be primarily responsible for coding/analyzing survey and field study data. The minimum commitment is 3 hours/week.
Qualifications of applicant: Psychology, Communication, or Symbolic Systems majors and/or students interested in psychology of language and new media.
Compensation: Those seeking course credit should enroll in PSYCH 195 (Special Laboratory Projects), Section 07 for a minimum of 1 unit (3 hours/week). Volunteers are also welcome.
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Cognitive Development Laboratory
Lab association: Cognitive Development Laboratory
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Prof. Ellen Markman and W. Quin Yow (graduate student)
Preferred contact information: quin@psych.stanford.edu
Project description:
1) We are interested in exploring children's understanding of emotion in speech, and more generally, the use of communicative cues when interacting with others. In particular, we are interested if there is a difference between children who grow up in single-language environment and children who grow up in a dual-language environment (who may differ due to the need to constantly monitor the speaker's intent in order to respond appropriately).
2) The main purpose of the study is to examine whether bilingual adults are more competent or efficient in the various components of executive control processing (such as inhibition, updating information, and switching attention) than their monolingual counterparts. We are also interested to know if there are positive effects of bilingualism for people who acquired the second language late in their lives.
Duties of the position and hours a week:
1) Research will be mainly conducted at the Bing Nursery School. You will be involved in all aspects of the research, including setting up of the study, testing children, coding of data, etc. 6-9 hr/wk.
2) All aspects of the research, including recruitment of subjects, setting up of experiment, scheduling and running the participants, etc. Participants mainly young adults between 18-35 years old. 6-9 hr/wk.
Qualifications of applicant: 1) PSYCH 1 and PSYCH 60 (Intro to Developmental Psychology) preferred. Knowledge and experience with sound/video editing is helpful but not required.
2) Previous research experience is helpful but not required. Programming (set-up) of the experiment using Matlab (Psychtoolbox) - knowledge and experience with programming in Matlab (Psychtoolbox) preferred.
Compensation: course credit, volunteer, or work study
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Culture and Emotion Lab
Lab association: Culture and Emotion Lab
Lab website or an overview of the research you are conducting:
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~tsailab/
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Jeanne Tsai, Louise Chim
Preferred contact information: lchim@stanford.edu
Project description:
The research project will involve looking at how culture affects emotional responding and behavior. We will be looking at how inducing people in different mood states affect their physiological responding, facial expressions, and subjective experiences of emotion.
Duties of the position and hours a week: Duties include but are not limited to running study sessions, developing stimuli, and data management. At least 6 hours a week is required of all research assistants.
Qualifications of applicant: Interested applicants must be reliable, hard working, and enthusiastic. No prior research experience necessary, but knowledge of SPSS, Excel, or E-prime is a plus.
Compensation: Course credit, work-study, or volunteers
Other information you want the potential RA to know: If you are interested, please e-mail lchim@stanford.edu for an application form and to set up a time to talk about the project.
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Stanford Psychophysiological Laboratory
Lab association: Stanford Psychophysiological Laboratory
Lab website: http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~savor/
Professor and supervising graduate students: James Gross (PI), Emily Drabant, Carolyn Fredericks
Preferred contact information: Carolyn Fredericks, cfrederi@stanford.edu
Project description: We're studying the effect of a psychosocial stress task on young women's immune systems. We're particularly interested in whether certain genetic markers or exposure to a high degree of stress in early childhood result in an excessive inflammatory immune response to stress.
The study is part of a larger study of markers for affective vulnerability and resilience at the Stanford Psychophysiological Laboratory. (More info at our website, link above.)
We're hoping to start running subjects for the study by the end of February and will be collecting the bulk of our data by the end of May. You could continue to be involved with the project over the summer.
Duties of the position and hours a week:
A student working on this project will work closely with the SAVOR team during all stages of the research process. You will have the opportunity to develop a range of research skills such as recruitment and screening of participants; running psychosocial stress studies and data collection; and data processing and analyses. There may also be opportunities to learn how to conduct clinical assessments. Ideally, we'd like an RA who can commit to at least 10 hrs/wk.
Qualifications of applicant: Excited about the study, committed, hard-working, and reliable. All majors welcome. No prior research experience necessary.
Compensation: Course credit, work-study, or volunteer. Depending on your interests and goals, you may develop your own research questions within the proposed study and take responsibility for presenting this research at conferences and in publication form.
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Clark lab
Lab association: Clark lab
Overview of the research you are conducting: Question wording effects on political questionnaires
Professor and supervising graduate student: Professor Herb Clark and I-Chant Chiang
Preferred contact information: I-Chant Chiang, iac@psych.stanford.edu
Project description: How does the wording of questions affect the response? We are investigating how people think about liberalism and conservatism depending on the framing of the question. We use surveys and reaction time experiments to probe these issues, and you can choose between several ways to be involved in this project.
Duties of the position and hours a week: As a research assistant, you will help with data collection and analysis. There will be opportunities to design stimuli, run experiments, and help analyze data. We would like a commitment of at least 3 hours per week for each unit you sign up for.
Qualifications of applicant: Taken at least 1 psychology course, no research experience necessary.
Compensation: course credit, work study, or volunteers
Other information: We are looking for anyone with an interest in language, politics, or survey methodology.
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SPAN lab (Symbiotic Project on Affective Neuroscience)
Lab website: http://spanlab.stanford.edu
Professor: Dr. Brian Knutson
Preferred contact information: Kacey Ballard, Graduate Student,
kballard@stanford.edu
Project description: Financial decision making across the lifespan: a
behavioral and neuroimaging study
Duties of the position and hours a week:
We are seeking at least one additional research assistant to conduct
studies of financial decision making and cognitive ability in a
community population of subjects. In addition to helping us run
participants in the task and entering data, there will be an
opportunity to become involved in data analysis and potentially assist
in fMRI (brain imaging) studies later in the quarter or over the
summer. Flexible time commitment, though we prefer 6-9 hrs/wk.
Qualifications of applicant: All majors are welcome to apply.
Background or strong interest in psychology, statistics, or computer
science a plus!
Compensation: Course credit (Psych 195) or volunteer. Course credit:
3 units = 9 hrs/wk. 2 units = 6 hrs/wk.
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Lab association: Benoit Monin’s lab
Professor and/or supervising graduate student: Emily Zitek and Alex Jordan (with Benoit Monin)
Preferred contact information: emilyz@stanford.edu
Project description: We are looking for help running studies. One of our projects is looking at instant message conversations, and the other one is looking at prosocial behavior.
Duties of the position and hours a week: Research assistants will set up the studies and interact with participants in the lab. You will work at least 3 hours a week, but you can work more if you want.
Qualifications of applicant: Interested in social psychology, but no previous research experience necessary
Compensation: Course credit (3 hours per unit) or work study
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If you want to have a position advertised here please contact the human subjects coordinator at hscoordinator@lists.stanford.edu
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