参与研究的重要性
Gaining exposure to research allows you to take the knowledge you’ve learned in the classroom and apply to a research setting. 研究为项目开发提供信息, 干预措施, 服务, 政策, 还有很多其他的事情. Getting involved in research will allow you to not just understand the process for all stages of the research process but also improve your verbal and oral communication skills as you present your findings in manuscripts and presentations. 最后, you may find that yourself fascinated by the research process or find that research may provide a medium through which to answer bigger context issues you’re passionate about addressing!
实验室协调员
心理科学 研究支援专员, 协助教授和学生备课, maintaining and using computing and scientific equipment for psychological research (both in classrooms and research 实验室oratories). 如果你有关于研究的一般性问题(e.g. 花旗集团的培训, IRB程序, research design/statistics) or specific questions about your research project-- including training on software or equipment-- 联系研究支持专家.
研究支持专家也负责管理 舒鼾, 心理科学研究参与 网站. 如果您对通过舒鼾注册或参与心理学研究有任何疑问, 联系研究支持专家.
与教师一起参与研究的技巧
与教师交谈! 他们渴望与学生谈论他们的研究以及你可以参与的方式. 教师 don’t expect you to come into your undergraduate education with years of research experience under your belt. 教师 and older students in the 实验室 are more than happy to get you started on your research career. 一切都从安排第一次会面开始! 询问教授是否在学期和/或夏季寻找研究助理.
研究实验室
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瓜达卢佩Bacio
Bacio教授的 实验室 studies four main areas: 1) Latinx adolescent mental health and substance use behaviors across generations, 2)拉丁裔青少年和青年在酒精和药物使用方面的差异, 3)针对拉丁裔和其他少数民族青少年的文化响应干预服务, and 4) Bio-psycho-socio-cultural factors that impact the transition of Latinx adolescents to young adulthood.
香农烧伤
伯恩斯教授管理着 人际交往机制实验室 (MIC实验室), seeking to understand the neural and psychological processes that enable people to successfully communicate, 协调, 互相理解. The MIC Lab uses a multimodal approach to this topic with research methods that include neuroimaging (fMRI & fNIRS)，行为实验，计算建模和自然语言处理. Current projects aim to study the complex and dynamic processes involved in natural communication contexts like persuasion, 同理心, 以及群体决策.
莎朗·高特
教授转到's 文化、种族和大脑实验室 aims to understand the neural mechanisms associated with social and cultural influences on human behavior. 目前, 实验室 uses high-density EEG electrode arrays to investigate the spatial and temporal parameters of electrical brain activity associated with social and cultural factors. For example: 1) How cultural values affect analytic versus holistic perception using neural measures, 2)双文化框架转换的神经机制, 3)文化和权力对社会观念的作用.
埃里克·赫尔利
赫尔利教授的 实验室, Deep Structure Culture Shop (the Shop) pursues three main and interrelated questions: 1) Can peoples’ culture based orientations be relied upon to predict their 的态度s and behavior? 2) What are the functional mechanisms by which people’s culture based orientations influence them toward one or another type of perception, 的态度, 行为(或其他结果)? 3) To what extent is the expression of cultural themes (for example ‘group-orientation’) consistent or variable within and across global Diasporas?
理查德•刘易斯
刘易斯教授 文化、种族和大脑实验室 aims to understand the neural mechanisms associated with social and cultural influences on human behavior. 目前, 实验室 uses high-density EEG electrode arrays to investigate the spatial and temporal parameters of electrical brain activity associated with social and cultural factors. For example: 1) How cultural values affect analytic versus holistic perception using neural measures, 2)双文化框架转换的神经机制, 3)文化和权力对社会观念的作用.
莎拉Masland
Masland教授的 实验室 specializes in the study of personality (including everyday personality functioning and personality disorders), 精神病理学, 和人际关系. 她的实验室使用行为学, 听, 面试, 以及自我报告方法来理解关于人类生活的复杂问题. 目前的项目侧重于心理健康污名, 边缘型人格障碍的社会认知, 以及临床结果的跨诊断心理社会预测因子.g. 在亲密关系中对批评的感知).
亚当·皮尔森
皮尔森教授的 实验室 uses behavioral science methods and theories to explore how group memberships shape how people think about, 相互作用, 并与他人和我们周围的世界联系起来. His research is guided by two main questions: 1) How do social identities and intergroup dynamics impact how we think about and respond to social and cooperative problems, 比如气候变化? and 2) how can a deeper understanding of these processes promote informed and equitable decision making? 为了探究这些问题, 这个实验室使用多种方法, 包括实验室和现场实验, 概率调查, 以及二元和纵向分析方法.
Shlomi谢尔
谢尔教授的 认知视角实验室 investigates how the human mind can understand the human mind; that is, 人们如何从内在vs中调和看似不同的自我视角. 外部有利位置. 谢尔教授的 research is guided by three questions: 1) How does the economist’s model of the “rational actor” relate to the cognitive psychologist’s model of the human as a neural information processor? 2)科学调查能否解释意识体验和大脑活动之间的联系? 3)认知神经科学和心理学的研究是否解释了“自由意志”的现实??
作为研究助理有什么期待
每个实验室对研究助理的期望是不同的, 但一般来说, 学生可以直接参与一个或多个研究项目. 可能会有定期的实验室会议，每个人, 包括PI, 开会讨论一篇文章, 签入项目, 或者头脑风暴新想法. There will be several projects in various stages of the research process to get involved in; for example, one project may be at the beginning stage where it is an abstract idea that warrants literature review while another project has already been run and has data that needs analysis. Talking with your PI about your research interests and what skills you bring to the 实验室 (familiarity with literature review, 使用Excel表格, 等.)将有助于你在实验室找到一个你可以积极贡献的角色.
进行研究
- Any student who plans to get involved in research (whether designing their own study or working in someone else’s 实验室) must first complete 花旗集团的培训.
- One of the first steps in conducting research involves making several important decisions about research design. One such decision includes selecting the most appropriate modality of measurement to operationalize the researcher’s variables of interest.
- 如果将使用调查/问卷的测量方式, 研究者必须努力选择最有效的心理测量方法.e. 有效可靠). 然而，如果这样的措施是不可用的(或容易获得), 一些研究人员将创建/设计一个. 无论哪种方式，所采用的措施对研究的内部有效性至关重要. Selecting--or creating-- poor measures will lower the researcher’s ability to detect potentially significant results (*提示: 动力分析 及第二类错误)!
- 研究人员还必须决定如何从参与者那里收集数据. Online data collection is frequently used today due to its convenience and accessibility to participants; thus it may be valuable to learn online data-collection platforms, 如 Qualtrics, TurkPrime和MTurk.
- There are opportunities for students to receive funding for their research projects through programs at 皇冠体育 like SURP和PCIP. 拨款不仅会让你的简历好看, 但它可以帮助你支付参与者或购买所需的设备或材料为你的研究!
- 所有的研究都必须得到 IRB 在收集任何数据之前. 熟悉申请程序、表格和道德准则.
- 最后, sharing your research results with the wider academic community is not only a vital step of the scientific process, 而且在你的简历上也很好看! 学习如何制作APA格式的海报，并考虑提交给即将到来的网站 心理上的会议!