Undergraduate Research Labs
- LifeSPAN Autism Spectrum Disorder Lab
- Dr. Vanessa Bal
- Website: https://gsapp.rutgers.edu/lifespanasdlab
- Email:
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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.
- The Barker Lab
- 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.
- Cortex Learning Epigenetics & Function
- Dr. Kasia Bieszczad
- Website: https://cleflab.myportfolio.com
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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?
- Youth Anxiety and Depression Clinic
- Dr. Brian Chu
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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. Email
- Regulation Action and Motivated Perception Lab
- Dr. Shana Cole
- Website: http://www.ramplab-rutgers.com/
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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.
- Dr. Richard Contrada
- Website: https://rjjwcc.wixsite.com/psychophysiologylab
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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.
- Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center
- Dr. Robert Isenhower
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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.
- The Rutgers Social-Emotional and Character Development (SECD) Lab
- Dr. Maurice Elias
- Website: http://www.SECDLab.org
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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.
- Rutgers Emotion, Health, and Behavior (REHAB) Lab
- Dr. Samantha Farris
- Website: https://psych.rutgers.edu/rehab-lab/home
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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.
The REHAB Lab does not currently have any research assistant openings. We will update our website when we have new openings!
The REHAB Lab is not currently accepting new applications for undergraduate research assistants—please check our website periodically for new openings!
- Vision Cognition Lab
- Dr. Jacob Feldman
- Website: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/jacob
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My research concerns perceptual organization, grouping, visual similarity, shape representation, object categorization, and other aspects of human visual cognition.
- Foels LCR Lab
- Dr. Rob Foels
- Website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/rob-foels/
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The LCR lab is a consortium of researchers from three different universities (R. Foels; T.J. Tomcho; N.D. Zambrotta). My lab studies how cognitive complexity and social identity influence progressive views of social justice issues (the Tomcho lab focuses on teaching effectiveness; the Zambrotta lab focuses on identity authenticity and diversity). My research has shown that more complex cognitive representations relate to lower sexism, lower racism, lower heterosexism, less acceptance of sexual assault myths, and less acceptance of solitary confinement in prisons. Social identity influences cognitive representations, as those with a feminist identity or minority racial identity have higher levels of cognitive complexity and engage in less bias.
The Foels LCR Lab is small, working with only one or two students per year. A student must have previously demonstrated strong critical thinking and organizational skills in a class with Dr. Foels to be considered for the lab.
- Dr. Arnold Glass
- Website: http://psych.rutgers.edu/faculty-profiles-a-contacts/98-arnold-glass
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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.
- The Hamilton Lab
- Dr. Jessica Hamilton
- Website: https://www.thehamiltonlab.org
Currently, this lab is not accepting any undergraduate students.
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.
- Priors and Memory Lab
- Dr. Pernille Hemmer
- Website: https://primelab235.wordpress.com/
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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)..
- Human Development Lab
- 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:
- Quantitative Development Lab (Quad Lab)
- Dr. Michelle Hurst
- Website: https://www.thequadlab.com/
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The Quad Lab is part of the Department of Psychology and Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Our lab studies how people think about quantitative information and how our strategies changes across development and across contexts. We do online and in person experiments with infants, children, and adults. Currently, most of our work is in the domain of mathematical and numerical cognition. Specifically, proportional reasoning provides an interesting and important case study because it often causes difficulty in older children and adults, and yet infants and young children have good intuitions about how to use proportional information. What do these early intuitions look like? When and why do older children and adults make errors? What cognitive processes are people using to reason about proportion, and how do they change across development? What experiences cause people to use incorrect or suboptimal processing strategies? These are the kinds of questions we address in my lab, with the goal of building more complete cognitive theories of how the human mind works and to develop better ways of teaching and learning difficult mathematical concepts. In my lab, we believe in the importance of fostering an inclusive and supportive environment, and actively work to create such an environment. We also believe in the principles of open and transparent science, and do our science with that in mind, including pre-registration, open materials, open data, and so on.
Undergraduate students interested in getting involved in the lab can email our general lab email:
- Dr. Margaret Ingate
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Research interests: human memory, consumer behavior, adjustment and identity among minority group adolescents; personality.
- Dr. Lee Jussim
- Website: https://sites.rutgers.edu/lee-jussim/
- Phone: 1.8484452278
Current projects on which undergraduates could assist include:
- Black Couples Research Project running Summer/Fall/and Spring
- Dr. Shalonda Kelly
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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 Lab
- Dr. Evan Kleiman
- Website: http://www.kleimanlab.org
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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.
- Dr. Alexander Kusnecov
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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.
- Cognitive Development Lab
- Dr. Alan Leslie
- Website: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~aleslie/undergra.html
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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.
- 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.
- Dr. John McGann
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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 Computational Vision and Psychophysics Lab
- Dr. Melchi Michel
- Website: https://mmmlab.org/
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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.
- 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.
- The Nicolas Lab
- Dr. Gandalf Nicolas
- Website: https://www.nicolaslab.org/
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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
- Rutgers Paraprofessional Coaching Project
- 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).
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 Hannah Krall for more information:
- Dr. Laurie Rudman
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Social cognition, stereotypes, implicit attitude assessment.
- Genes, Environment, and Neurodevelopment in Addictions
- Jessica Salvatore, Sally Kuo, and Megan Cooke
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Genes, Environment, and Neurodevelopment in Addictions
The Genes, Environment, and Neurodevelopment in Addictions (GENA) research program is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research team that is made up of Dr. Jessica Salvatore (Director and Associate Professor of Psychiatry), Dr. Sally Kuo (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), Dr. Megan Cooke (Research Associate), and Psychology doctoral student Erin Lumpe. The mission of the GENA program is to understand how genetic and environmental factors contribute to the onset, persistence, and remission of alcohol and other substance use disorders. Undergraduate research assistants in the GENA program will have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of potential research activities, such as programming and testing online surveys/study protocols, participant recruitment and data collection, and assisting with data cleaning, reduction, analysis; developing study documentation; and the preparation of manuscripts and scientific presentations.
Interested in joining us? Please fill out an application here and we will be in touch shortly after! Contact:
- Dr. Benjamin Samuels
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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.
- Dr. Diana Sanchez
- Website: http://dianatsanchez.com
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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).
- 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.
- Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Schools (IEPS) Lab
- Dr. Elisa Shernoff
- Website: https://gsapp.rutgers.edu/faculty/elisa-shernoff
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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 description and complete the application form and email it to
- Dr. Manish Singh
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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.
- Tobacco Research & Intervention Lab
- 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.
- Dr. Karin Stromswold
- Website: http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~karin/stromswold.html
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The research in this lab investigates the cognitive and neural bases of language. Ongoing projects fall in five general areas.
- The Stereotyping and Social Interactions Virtual Reality Lab
- Valerie Taylor
- Website: https://ssivrlab.wixsite.com/ssivrlab
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Our lab examines three distinct but interrelated issues: how people 1) engage in interracial interactions, 2) experience and perceive race and gender in academic and workplace contexts and in racialized physical spaces, and 3) learn about and engage in social justice action. Across these areas, we examine virtual reality (VR) as a tool to reduce bias and systemic racism in individuals, interracial interactions, and institutions.
- Dr. Elizabeth B. Torres
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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.
- Neurobiology of Vocal Learning
- Dr. David Vicario
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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.
- The Cognition and Learning Center (CALC)
- Dr. Jenny Wang
- Website: https://sites.sas.rutgers.edu/cognition/
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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/.
- Dr. David Wilder
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Students attend weekly lab meetings to plan and prepare research. Research topics include the following:
- Research on Self Understanding and Self Evaluation
- Dr. Robert Woolfolk
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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.
- Memory Optimization Lab
- 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!