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2009-2010 Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Psychology

Unless otherwise indicated, positions are on a volunteer basis, previous experience is not required, and you should apply by contacting the researcher. You may be able to receive course credit for work done in some of these positions; speak with your research supervisor about this option if you are interested. For additional descriptions of faculty research programs, click on each professor's link on the department faculty webpages.

Spring 2010 listings will be posted as the semester begins and added as they arrive. Please check back periodically.

Spring 2010 postings:
Understanding the Mind and the Brain Through Visual Cognition (Xu)
The moral licensing effect of physical discomfort (Inbar/Tamir/Greene)

Fall 2009 postings
:
Understanding the Mind and the Brain Through Visual Cognition (Xu)
Reading Facial Expressions People (Gilbert/Mendes/Kassam)
Effects of genotype and stress on responsiveness to reward and punishment (Affective Neuroscience Lab - Berghorst/Pizzagalli)
Moral Cognition (Greene)
Language and Social Cognition (Pinker/Hartshorne)
Implicit Preferences for Innate versus Learned Abilities (Banaji/Tsay)
Health and Psychophysiology Lab (Mendes)
Neuroscience of Language and Meaning and Grammar studies in Developmental Lab (Snedeker/Hartshorne/Conwell)
Role of beliefs in person perception and interpersonal interaction (Banaji/Heiphetz)
Measuring and modifying potential mechanisms of change in self-injury (Nock/Wedig)
Someone knows: The power of making experience shared (Gilbert/Burum)
How do our implicit biases influence our behavior? (Banaji/Otten)
Internal rewards in human learning and decision-making (Nakayam/Schlicht)
Mind perception, empathy, and moral judgment (Mental Control Lab - Wegner/Jenkins)
Research Assistant Needed for Studies on Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals (Sidanius/Banaji/Ho)
Resesarch Assistant Needed for Cognition and Decision-Making Study Lab (Pinker/Lee/Atwood)
Souls, Minds, and Consciousness in Mental Control Lab (Wegner/Ward)
Self-concept among people who engage in self-injurious behavior (Hooley/Gironde)
Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab (Caramazza)
Face recognition and its deficits (Nakayama/Chatterjee)
Child Traumatic Stress and the Funneling of Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts (McNally/Sprung)
Computational Modeling of Virtual Reality Navigation Experiments (Buckner/Krienen)