Opportunities and Involvement:
Opportunities for Paid Research
WANTED: Experimental participants for studies of eye movements and visual perception:
| Our laboratory is studying how the eye moves when people do everyday life tasks, such as reading, looking at pictures or searching for a target in a crowded visual scene. Our goals are to understand eye movement planning and also to find out whether some eye movement patterns produce better task performance than others. We are looking for people who can be available for studies that require multiple visits to the lab, about 2-4 hours per week during the semester. |
| PAYMENT is $10 per hour. |
| Normal vision is required (no glasses or soft contact lenses). |
| The laboratory is located in the Psychology building, Busch campus. |
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For further information, or questions about scheduling contact Prof. Eileen Kowler. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. This advertisement was approved by the Rutgers IRB, protocol #Pro2020000969. 5/1/2020 (no expiration). |
Wanted: Experimental participants for a visual perception study:
| The Computational Vision & Psychophysics Lab is looking for college students over the age of 18 to participate in a study examining visual perception. The study involves sessions lasting approximately an hour each and participants will receive $10 per session. Openings for multiple-visit (2-4 hours/week) experiments are available. |
| PAYMENT is $10 per session. |
| Participants must have normal or corrected-to-normal vision. |
| The laboratory is located in the Psychology building, Busch campus. |
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If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr. Melchi Michel at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Fellowships, Internships, and Fieldwork
- The Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates
- The Dorothy and David Cooper Scholarship (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship)
- The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
Internship in Applied and Community Psychology
The Internship Program in Applied, School, & Community Psychology is a semester-long course. Students enrolled in the program will receive credits for interning in a setting in which the application of psychology is essential.
Credit hours for the internship program average from 6 to 9. Students typically work 3 days per week (for 9 credits - 3 seminar and 6 field credits, registered for 494 and 493, respectively). The student is supervised by a professional at the internship site and by a member of the psychology department.
Applications are available on the Forms and FAQs page and are due Tuesday, April 7, 2020 for the Fall 2020 semester.
Fieldwork in Psychology
The department arranges meaningful fieldwork experiences for students. Undergraduates currently work in schools (to study child development and the education of autistic children), adult mental health centers, at programs associated with the Division of Youth and Family Services, and with foster children in their homes.
Detailed descriptions of fieldwork opportunities listed on our Forms and FAQs page.
Undergraduate Research Labs
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Aiello, Jack
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- Lab Name: Social and Organizational Psychology Research Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Jack Aiello
- Website: http://jraiello.webnode.com/researchteam/
The program of research of the Social and Organizational Psychology Research Lab investigates the process by which people regulate and control their social interaction with others at home and at work. -
Bal, Vanessa
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- Lab Name: LifeSPAN Autism Spectrum Disorder Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Vanessa Bal
- Website: https://gsapp.rutgers.edu/lifespanasdlab
Autism Spectrum Disorder is often perceived as a childhood disorder. However, most autistic individuals experience challenges in adult life and maintaining engagement in their communities across multiple domains, including navigating postsecondary education, obtaining and sustaining employment, engaging in desired relationships and accessing services to help them achieve positive quality of life. On the other hand, autistic adults exhibit a range of strengths and positive attributes. Unfortunately, research on autism in adulthood is limited across the board, with very few studies focusing on strengths. -
Barker, David
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- Lab Name: The Barker Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. David Barker
- Website: https://www.thebarkerlab.com
The Barker Lab is part of the Department of Psychology and the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University. The goal of the lab is to anatomically and functionally characterize brain circuits that are involved in drug addiction as well as in comorbid disorders such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, or pain, to name a few. -
Bates, Marsha
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- Lab Name: Research Division and the Cardiac Neuroscience Laboratory at CAS
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Marsha Bates
- Website: http://research.alcoholstudies.rutgers.edu/active/cardiac-neuroscience-laboratory-cn
Dr. Bates is Distinguished Research Professor and associate director of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies (CAS). She directs the Research Division and the Cardiac Neuroscience Laboratory at CAS. The mission of this multidisciplinary lab is to conduct integrated physiology, psychology and neuroscience research aimed at understanding alcohol and other drug effects on behavioral flexibility, and developing innovative bio-behavioral treatment approaches for persons with alcohol and drug use disorders. The lab is especially interested in learning how visceral bodily reactions are integrated with cognitive and emotional regulation through the baroreflex feedback loop. -
Bieszczad, Kasia
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- Lab Name: Cortex Learning Epigenetics & Function
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Kasia Bieszczad
- Website: https://cleflab.myportfolio.com
Disorders of learning and memory are a major issue facing many people and families today. My laboratory focuses on the neuroplasticity of the brain, and in particular how neuroplasticity supports information processing and storage when animals (like humans) learn and remember something new. What are the biological mechanisms that control learning-induced plasticity in the brain? And how does neuroplasticity contribute to long-term memory about newly learned information? -
Chu, Brian
Youth Anxiety and Depression Clinic Learn what makes psychological therapy work! We are conducting a randomized clinical trial comparing three cognitive behavioral interventions for children and adolescents with anxiety and depression. We are looking for undergraduate research assistants (RAs) to provide research support and complete independent research projects in our lab. You will learn about treatment outcomes (which treatments are best), how they work (mediators and moderators of treatment), and how to increase access to underserved populations. RAs become familiar with daily operations of multiple large research projects and how to carry out large clinical studies. RA will conduct behavioral assessments with youth and caregivers. RAs will have opportunities to write comprehensive literature reviews and complete independent research projects. For more information and to apply, please visit our lab website at https://gsapp.rutgers.edu/centers-clinical-services/YADC Email Dr. Brian Chu -
Cole, Shana
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- Lab Name: Regulation Action and Motivated Perception Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Shana Cole
- Website: http://www.ramplab-rutgers.com/
The Regulation, Action, and Motivated Perception Lab is currently recruiting motivated research assistants interested in a rich and comprehensive research experience. The RAMP Lab, directed by Dr. Shana Cole, studies the social cognitive and perceptual processes that predict and promote effective goal pursuit. Current projects explore the role of motivated visual perception in managing relationship, dieting, smoking, political, and exercise goals. -
Contrada, Richard
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Contrada
- Website: https://rjjwcc.wixsite.com/psychophysiologylab
My students and I conduct research on social and psychological factors involved in the development and course of physical and mental health problems. With regard to physical health, our primary focus is heart disease, a leading killer. With regard to mental health, our primary focus is anxiety/anxiety disorders, a highly prevalent set of conditions. -
Elias, Maurice
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- Lab Name: The Rutgers Social-Emotional and Character Development (SECD) Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Maurice Elias
- Website: http://www.SECDLab.org
In our clinical/community psychology lab, we conduct research projects related to social-emotional learning and character development (SECD), primarily (but not only) with urban school districts in New Jersey. We aim to engage young people in schools to take action and make positive changes in their communities. The Rutgers students who join our team will have the opportunity to help out with three different projects (listed below), and receive course credit for their work. Please check out our website for more information about each project. -
Farris, Samantha
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- Lab Name: Rutgers Emotion, Health, and Behavior (REHAB) Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Samantha Farris
- Website: https://psych.rutgers.edu/rehab-lab/home
Chronic disease and health-risk behaviors are often comorbid with psychological disorders that maintain those conditions. In my lab, we conduct research on the effects of anxiety and stress on health and behaviors across multiple domains including women’s health, cigarette smoking, and physical activity. Our aim is contribution to a better understanding of the influence of psychological components on physical health in order to improve treatment outcomes for clinical populations as well as community wellbeing. Students interested in gaining research experience are encouraged to apply via the application on the lab webpage. -
Feldman, Jacob
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- Lab Name: Vision Cognition Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Jacob Feldman
- Website: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/jacob
My research concerns perceptual organization, grouping, visual similarity, shape representation, object categorization, and other aspects of human visual cognition. -
Fiske, Kate
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- Lab Name: Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Kate Fiske
- Website: http://dddc.rutgers.edu/dddc-research-syllabus.html
Behavioral and educational research conducted with children and adults with autism. Areas of research include evaluating the effectiveness of treatment procedures, assessing family functioning, and influencing social behavior in autism. -
Foels, Rob
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Rob Foels
Lab Name: Foels LCR Lab This branch of the Foels/Tomcho LCR lab studies the causes and consequences of social injustice. The theoretical approach involves a blend of cognitive complexity, social identity, and social power. Those with a strong feminist or racial identity are more cognitively complex. Cognitively complex individuals in turn are more socially aware and engage in less intergroup bias, In contrast, those with high social power are less cognitively complex and engage in more intergroup bias. Therefore being raised with high social power (e.g., dominant ethnic, gender, or economic group) makes one less cognitively complex, which in turn makes one more likely to engage in prejudice and support social injustice. Current projects include: the role of feminist identity and cognitive complexity on the acceptance of myths regarding victims of sexual assault understanding early perceptual processes related to cognitive complexity manipulating cognitive complexity to reduce intergroup biases political ideology and cognitive complexity Future projects: gender differences in cognitive complexity (women are more complex) feminist pedagogy how prejudice and discrimination are presented in textbooks how gender dysphoria is presented in textbooks Qualifications for working with Dr. Foels include: sophomore or junior status an earned A in one of Dr. Foels' classes GPA of 3.5 or greater strong library skills commitment to 9 hours a week of research activities -
Glass, Arnold
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Arnold Glass
- Website: http://psych.rutgers.edu/faculty-profiles-a-contacts/98-arnold-glass
Human cognition is best understood in terms of a set of inter-connected functional neural systems. There is a huge need for functional schematics and functional anatomical maps of these systems and I have taken up this challenge. Anyone who likes to draw and is interested in neuroscience will find this work very rewarding. -
Gregory, Anne
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- Lab Name: The Morningside Center Whole School Restorative Practices (RP)
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Anne Gregory
The Morningside Center Whole School Restorative Practices (RP) research project is a randomized control trial evaluation of a school wide discipline reform program based on integrating restorative practices, social emotional learning curriculum, and racial equity in K-12 public schools in Brooklyn, NY. We, Dr. Anne Gregory and her Rutgers Evaluation team at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, are interested in recruiting highly motivated undergraduate research assistants to play a vital role in collecting data to evaluate the impact of the whole school RP and Racial Equity Project. -
Hamilton, Jessica
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- Lab Name: The Hamilton Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Jessica Hamilton
- Website: https://www.thehamiltonlab.org
Adolescence is a period of increased risk for suicidal thoughts, behaviors, and death by suicide. Our research group examines individual and systemic factors that increase suicide risk during this developmental period, particularly focused on the role of social media and sleep. To better assess these factors as they unfold in real time and in the real world, our research uses self-report surveys, qualitative interviews, clinical interviews, and monitoring methods that are active (e.g., asking questions several times per day) and passive (capturing sleep and smartphone activity). Students should be willing and able to work in the lab for at least two semesters (or a semester and a summer). There is an online application available about our research and the position on the lab website. -
Hemmer, Pernille
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- Lab Name: Priors and Memory Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Pernille Hemmer
- Website: https://primelab235.wordpress.com/
Our lab is broadly interested in how our prior expectations influence our memory and decision making. Specifically, our research addresses how expectations compensate for noisy and incomplete memory (e.g. for color or objects in scenes) and impact our decision making for the future (e.g. patient health choices).. -
Hoggard, Lori
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- Lab Name: Racism Identity Coping and Health (RICH) Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Lori Hoggard
We are currently inviting interested and enthusiastic individuals to apply to be research assistants in the Racism, Identity, Coping, and Health (RICH) Lab under the direction of Dr. Lori Hoggard, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology (Social area). We seek to understand the physical and mental health consequences of racism and discrimination encountered by African Americans and members of other racial/ethnic minority groups. In doing so, we focus on identity, coping, and important mechanisms that underlie the associations between racism and health. The lab employs diverse approaches, including surveys, experiments, and psychophysiological (e.g., heart rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure) methods. -
Hudson, Judith
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- Lab Name: Human Development Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Judith Hudson
My research is concerned with mental time travel, that is, how we think about the past and future and how memory and foresight abilities develop. We currently have a number of studies underway that examine various aspects of autobiographical memory and future thinking in children and adults: -
Ingate, Margaret
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Margaret Ingate
Research interests: human memory, consumer behavior, adjustment and identity among minority group adolescents; personality. -
Jussim, Lee
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Lee Jussim
- Website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lee-jussim/
Current projects on which undergraduates could assist include: -
Kelly, Shalonda
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- Lab Name: Black Couples Research Project running Summer/Fall/and Spring
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Shalonda Kelly
The purpose of this study is to understand how African Americans view and cope with racial factors such as oppression and racial stereotypes within their couple relationships. African American couples have been recruited from the community to complete questionnaires and participate in videotaped discussions regarding the role of racial issues in their lives, both as individuals and as a couple. -
Kleiman, Evan
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- Lab Name: Kleiman Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Evan Kleiman
- Website: http://www.kleimanlab.org
Much of the research on suicide has measured suicidal ideation and its risk factors with long periods of time (e.g., years, months) between measurements.Our research group uses wearable physiological monitors and smartphone-based real-time monitoring technology (i.e. Ecological Momentary Assessment) to explore the day to day or hour to hour variation in suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Through the use of these new methods and technologies we are able to assess the contextual factors associated with suicide risk and resilience as they actually occur. Students interested in joining my lab can complete the online application found on lab’s website. -
Kowler, Eileen
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- Lab Name: Eye Movements and Cognitive Processes
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Eileen Kowler
- Website: https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/kowler
Movements of the eyes are needed to gather information from the visual world because we must look at objects in order to see them clearly. From this simple fact comes 3 questions, all of which are under study in our laboratory. First, what factors determine where the eye moves and how accurately and quickly it arrives at its intended destination? Second, which patterns of eye movements are most useful for gathering visual information? Third, what can we learn about cognitive processes by studying an observer's pattern of eye movements? -
Kusnecov, Alexander
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Alexander Kusnecov
The nervous and immune systems share a mutually interactive relationship, which promotes various forms of physiological and behavioral adaptations in the face of pathogenic challenges from viruses and bacteria. The focus of my lab is on understanding this relationship through (I) studies that determine the mechanisms by which stress affects immune function, and (ii) studies that examine the cognitive and emotional consequences of immune system activation. These studies involve animal models of immunological activation and/or stressor exposure. Interested students should therefore be prepared to learn and conduct research that involves sterotaxic surgery, behavioral testing, and collection and processing of brain and lymphoid tissue for histological and biological assessment. This would be appropriate for students wishing to progress towards graduate education in Biopsychology/Behavioral Neuroscience, as well as in areas of Health Psychology that focus on Psychoneuroimmunology. -
Leslie, Alan
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- Lab Name: Cognitive Development Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Alan Leslie
- Website: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~aleslie/undergra.html
The Cognitive Development Lab studies the development of mental capacities underlying our understanding of physical objects, number, causation, social agency, pretending, and reasoning about other people’s mental states. Research is carried out, as appropriate, with normally developing infants (6 to 18 mos.) and preschool (3 to 5 years) and autistic and mentally handicapped children (6 to 18 years). We are always seeking eager undergraduates for research opportunities in our lab. Students should be willing and able to work in the lab for two semesters or a semester and a summer. -
Leyro, Teresa
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Teresa Leyro
- Website: https://psych.rutgers.edu/abusa-lab/
In the Affective and Biological Underpinnings of Anxiety and Substance Abuse (ABUSA) lab we seek to identify underlying vulnerabilities that place individuals at risk for co-occurring anxiety pathology and substance use disorders, and/or may serve to maintain associated dysfunction. -
Matzel, Louis
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Louis Matzel
Our overall focus is on individual differences in general cognitive abilities (c.f., "intelligence"). Genetically heterogenous and transgenic mice are used in studies of behavioral processes as well as neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and molecular/genetic mechanisms of learning, reasoning, and attention as they relate to general cognitive performance. Students are provided with the opportunity to participate in the design and implementation of all aspects of these studies. -
McGann, John
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. John McGann
- Website: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jmcgann/
I use the rodent olfactory (smell) system to study how the brain processes sensory stimuli. I am especially interested in how the brain changes based on an animal's environment and prior experience. In my lab we use a wide variety of techniques, including behavioral experimentation, optical imaging of neural activity under a microscope, and tissue assays for various proteins and neurotransmitters. Students who wish to work in my lab should have taken Physiological Psychology or an equivalent undergraduate neuroscience course and should submit a resume and transcript. Please see my website for more information. -
Michel, Melchi
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- Lab Name: Michel Computational Vision and Psychophysics Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Melchi Michel
- Website: https://mmmlab.org/
We are the Michel Computational Vision and Psychophysics Lab at Rutgers University. Our lab studies the human visual system, with a focus on investigating how we integrate sensory information to make perceptual judgments, how we exploit statistical regularities in the environment, and how we adapt when these statistical regularities are altered or when new statistical contingencies are introduced. Central to our approach are the treatment of vision as a problem of probabilistic inference, the theoretical framework of optimal computation, and the derivation and use of a mathematically optimal observer for the task under investigation as a standard against which to compare human performance. -
Musolino, Julien
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Julien Musolino
- Website: http://julienmusolino.com/
Based on our needs, we offer opportunities for undergraduate students to join our lab and participate in the research we conduct. We are looking for highly motivated individuals with strong organizational and interpersonal skills willing to commit for at least two consecutive semesters. -
Nicholas, Gandalf
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- Lab Name: The Nicolas Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Gandalf Nicolas
- Website: https://www.nicolaslab.org/
At the Nicolas lab we study how people make sense of the social world. Specific topics include stereotyping, perceptions of individuals who belong to multiple social groups (e.g., Multiracial and intersectional identities), first impressions based on facial appearance, and social biases in Artificial Intelligence. We use a variety of innovative methods to study social perceptions, from text analysis of laboratory and internet data to eye tracking and face images morphing. Our research has implications for our understanding of social behavior and discrimination. We are inviting interested students to apply to join the lab as research assistants. RAs in the lab will have multiple opportunities to obtain research experience, including participating in data collection and coding, material design, the development of new ideas, participating in lab meetings, and learning about methods and analysis. No specific prior experience is required; however, preference will be given to students who are able to commit to at least two semesters of working in the lab. RAs will be expected to spend approximately 5-10 hours/week involved in lab activities. Finally, we also encourage students with interdisciplinary backgrounds or interests (e.g., cognitive science, computer science) to apply to join the lab. For more information and to apply, please visit our lab website at nicolaslab.org -
Reddy, Linda
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- Lab Name: Data-Driven Instructional Coaching Model (RU-DDICM)
- Principal Investigator: Linda Reddy
(Sponsor- Maurice Elias) The Rutgers – Data-Driven Instructional Coaching Model (RU-DDICM) is a model demonstration project designed to implement a technology assisted data-driven coaching model to enhance teachers’ reading intervention practices and improve student outcomes for K-3 students with or at-risk for reading disabilities. Students experiencing early reading performance deficits have lower school performance throughout middle and high school and are at an elevated risk for school dropout (i.e., 2.5 times more likely to drop out), which has devastating effects on future adult employment and wellness. DDICM aims to build local school-based coaches capacity to support reading interventionists and classroom teachers with knowledge and skills in research-based data-driven reading interventions, ultimately leading to improvements in K-3 students’ early reading performance. The effectiveness of DDICM will be evaluated based on a multi-method and multi-data source process during the fall, winter, and spring over the course of four years, from Fall 2021 through Spring 2025. Data will be collected on students’ reading performance and outcomes through a standardized reading assessment battery, the Woodcock Johnson IV Achievement Test (WJIV), along with universal screening, and district specific reading assessments. Data will also be collected on data-driven reading intervention practices using knowledge and perception surveys and online logging, as well as data on coaching sessions through qualitative coding of audio recordings. This is a tremendous opportunity for students to obtain experience interacting with elementary grade students and conducting a standardized reading assessment, as well as gaining new skills in conducting meaningful school-based educational and psychological research. The project is interested in recruiting highly motivated undergraduate research assistants to play a vital role in collecting students reading performance data. This will be an outstanding opportunity for students who are interested in early reading assessment and intervention research focused on improving teachers’ and reading interventionists’ evidence-based practices for students with or at risk for early reading difficulties. Objectives Undergraduate research assistants working on this project will: Participate in multi-site research in public elementary schools throughout New Jersey Receive training on administering and scoring the Woodcock-Johnson IV Tests of Achievement Conduct WJIV reading performance assessments for 200 students in grades K-3 across 9 schools Receive training on qualitative coding audio sessions for the fidelity of coaching protocols Design, administer, and monitor online survey and data collection forms in Qualtrics Assist in the processing of research data, including data entry, quality control, and analytics for student performance data, student behavior rating scales, surveys, and coaching integrity data Interact and engage with school-based personnel to coordinate data collection activities Requirements A 2-semester commitment for the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 semesters. A minimum of 9 hours per week between the hours of 8:30 am and 3 pm. Personal transportation (such as a car) is required to visit elementary schools Application Students interested in applying to participate in the Rutgers DDICM program should send an email and a current résumé to project manager Ms. Gina Mazzariello. Gina Mazzariello Project Manager This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telephone: 831-331-5269 -
Reddy, Linda and Glover, Todd
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- Lab Name: Rutgers Paraprofessional Coaching Project
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Linda Reddy and Dr. Todd Glover
Sponsor: Dr. Maurice Elias The Rutgers - Paraprofessional Coaching Project is a randomized controlled trial of an innovative coaching program designed to enhance elementary school paraprofessional classroom aides' use of evidenced based behavioral interventions for students with externalizing behavior disorders (e.g., Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder). -
Rizvi, Shireen
Lab Name: Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic at Rutgers University (DBT-RU) Principal Investigator: Shireen L. Rizvi, PhD, ABPP Website: dbt.rutgers.edu The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Clinic at Rutgers University (DBT-RU) is a research and training clinic that provides comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) services to individuals in the community. DBT-RU is a research lab dedicated to improving psychological treatment for adults and teens with borderline personality disorder, suicidal behavior, and problems stemming from difficulties regulating emotions (for more information, see dbt.rutgers.edu and Youtube.com/dbtru). Students who join our lab learn about psychosocial clinical trials research, including data entry, management, and tracking of research files, as well as participate in weekly lab meetings and journal club, with readings on a variety of topics (e.g., DBT, emotion dysregulation, and BPD). For the 2022-2023 year, interested students can email Allison Ruork, PhD, for more information: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. -
Rudman, Laurie
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Laurie Rudman
- Website: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rudman/
Social cognition, stereotypes, implicit attitude assessment. -
Samuels, Benjamin
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Benjamin Samuels
Based on our needs, we may have some opportunities for undergraduate students to join the lab and participate in our research program. We are looking for highly motivated individuals with strong organizational and interpersonal skills that are willing to commit for at least two consecutive semesters. -
Sanchez, Diana
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Diana Sanchez
- Website: http://dianatsanchez.com
The Close Relationships, Identity and Stigma (CRIS)) lab is recruiting research assistants. Research assistants in the CRIS lab are expected to be exceptional undergraduates with an interest in psychology. We require that all students have a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 and be either a major or minor in psychology. Participation in the lab requires a 1-year commitment (2 semesters). -
Selby, Edward
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Edward Selby
The Emotion and Psychopathology Lab is currently recruiting undergraduate research assistants. The EmP Lab, led by Professor Edward Selby, Ph.D., examines how difficulties regulating emotion contribute to psychological disorders such as eating disorders, self-harming behavior, and Borderline Personality Disorder. Current studies underway in the lab include an investigation of the impact of stress on eating behavior, as well a project testing the influence of food on emotion and cognitive task performance. Upcoming studies in the lab will examine differences in emotional reactivity between individuals with Bulimia Nervosa, Major Depression, and Borderline Personality Disorder. -
Shernoff, Elisa
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- Lab Name: Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Schools (IEPS) Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Elisa Shernoff
- Website: https://gsapp.rutgers.edu/faculty/elisa-shernoff
SPONSOR: Dr. Maurice Elias Psychologists play a key role in helping promote positive mental health outcomes in children and youth in underrepresented communities. However, the process of implementing evidence-based, culturally responsive interventions with teachers and students is complex. A key role for psychologists includes supporting classrooms as healthy settings and preventing mental health problems via engaging instruction and effective responses to students. The Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Schools (IEPS) Lab focuses on the processes and contexts that promote effective use and dissemination of evidence-based practices via consultation, coaching, and professional development for teachers. Projects focus on developing virtual training models for teachers and training psychologists to effectively consult and coach teachers. Students must commit a minimum of 2 semesters. Rising sophomores and juniors are encouraged to apply, as we find that sustained involvement in the lab provides opportunities for more in-depth learning. Post-baccalaureates interested in gaining research experience before applying to graduate school are also encouraged to apply. Required skills include flexibility, dependability, good organization skills, attention to detail, and motivation to engage in diverse research tasks. Please review the project descriptions and complete the application form and send it, along with an updated resume/vitae to Dr. Elisa Shernoff, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. -
Singh, Manish
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Manish Singh
- Website: http://www.ruccs.rutgers.edu/~manish/
The way the world looks to us is a remarkable achievement of our visual system. The visual inputs we receive are just the two-dimensional images projected on our retinas. But from these our brain is able to construct representations of three-dimensional objects and surfaces laid out in space. Research in our lab is aimed at understanding how the human brain computes representations of objects and surfaces from the retinal images, and how it uses these representations for various tasks. -
Steinberg, Marc
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- Lab Name: Tobacco Research & Intervention Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Marc Steinberg
- Website: http://rwjms1.rwjms.rutgers.edu/steinberg-lab/index.html
The Tobacco Research & Intervention Lab (Director: Dr. Marc L. Steinberg) focuses on tobacco use and dependence, including tobacco dependence treatment development, tobacco use in smokers with psychiatric comorbidity, the relationship between smoking and task persistence/distress tolerance, and motivational interviewing as an approach to encourage smokers to make a quit attempt. -
Stromswold, Karin
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Karin Stromswold
- Website: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~karin/stromswold.html
The research in this lab investigates the cognitive and neural bases of language. Ongoing projects fall in five general areas. -
Tomie, Arthur
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Arthur Tomie
- Website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/arthur-tomie/
Research interests: My research is conducted in the NeuroPharmacoGenetics Lab at the Center of Alcohol Studies. My research interests are generally related to animal learning models of alcohol drinking; Pavlovian conditioning of sign-tracking; intergender effects on alcohol drinking; gene expression correlates of alcohol drinking in mice. -
Torres, Elizabeth B.
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. Elizabeth B. Torres
Join my lab to learn about personalized smart health! Come to learn how the brain controls bodies in motion and how we can measure brain-body interactions with high precision. Learn about the development of objective biometrics to analyze data from wearable biosensors and isolate joy from stress and pain in the motor stream that our nervous systems generate. Learn to measure how dyads interact in the social dance and how dancers project their emotions to the audience. Help us build new tools to measure the outcomes of treatments in autism, Parkinson’s disease and other medical conditions. -
Vicario, David
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- Lab Name: Neurobiology of Vocal Learning
- Principal Investigator: Dr. David Vicario
Songbirds use their songs and calls to communicate in social and reproductive contexts. They learn to make these sounds through a process of vocal imitation that has much in common with human speech acquisition. Very few animals are capable of this form of behavioral learning. It involves auditory discrimination, auditory memory and sensorimotor learning. We can study the brain mechanisms of each of these processes, because the relevant brain pathways have been identified in songbirds. Experiments in the laboratory involve a range of techniques from behavioral observations and sound processing to neurophysiology and neuroanatomy. Opportunities exist for interested students to participate in ongoing projects if they can make a significant time commitment. -
Wang, Jenny
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- Lab Name: The Cognition and Learning Center (CALC)
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Jenny Wang
- Website: https://sites.sas.rutgers.edu/cognition/
Our research group studies the foundations of human cognition. Research topics include, but are not limited to: how young children and adults perceive quantities, how numerical perception contributes to mathematical reasoning, what children and adults believe about the origins of human knowledge, and how changes in knowledge impact future learning. We are looking for bright, motivated Rutgers undergraduate research assistants. A two-semester commitment is required. You can learn more through our webpage https://sites.sas.rutgers.edu/cognition/. -
West, Mark
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- Lab Name: Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark West
- Website: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~markwest/
In my laboratory we study neural mechanisms of cocaine and opiate addiction, binge eating, reward, and motor skill learning in the mesolimbic and nigrostriatal dopamine systems in rat models of behaviors involving dopamine transmission. We analyze behavioral measures and activity of single neurons in conjunction with the animal's affective state measured via ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) that rats emit. One USV frequency range signals positive affect, whereas another signals negative affect. USVs provide new insights into what rats are experiencing, sometimes surprisingly at odds with what experimenters presume. -
Wilder, David
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- Principal Investigator: Dr. David Wilder
Students attend weekly lab meetings to plan and prepare research. Research topics include the following: -
Woolfolk, Robert
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- Lab Name: Research on Self Understanding and Self Evaluation
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Woolfolk
Our research examines such traditional topics as self-concept and self-esteem and their relation to questions in contemporary studies of social cognition. We are interested in how knowledge about the self is represented cognitively and how such knowledge structures are configured. We are also interested in the relationship of self-understanding and self-evaluation to areas in clinical psychology. Most specifically we are studying the connection of cognition about the self with depression and the personality disorders. -
Zhang, Qiong
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- Lab Name: Memory Optimization Lab
- Principal Investigator: Dr. Qiong Zhang
- Website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/memory-optimization-lab/
In our laboratory, we study the computational principles that make human memory efficient. We use a combination of behavioral methods and neural imaging to optimize human memory recalls. We are always looking for motivated psychology undergraduates with a quantitative background (programming skills, minor in CS or stats etc.) to join the lab!
Psychology Building
Undergraduate Advising at Tillett Hall