Social and Moral Development Lab
Application: HERE
Flyer: HERE
Description:
The Social and Moral Development Lab has several exciting projects that involve research with children and adolescents. One of the lab's new projects involves testing the efficacy of a web-based computer tool to enhance friendships across boundaries for children ages 8 to 11 years of age in the public schools. The Lab is eager to recruit Research Assistants from a range of racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. RAs in the SMD Lab learn about the process of research, read the literature in developmental psychology, meet with a research group once a week (with the supervising professor), and learn how to collect data from interviews, surveys, and online web based responses. Projects involve children’s conceptions of fairness and merit, examine ethnic and racial identity development, social exclusion, peer relationships, intergroup relations, prejudice, bias, stereotyping, and moral judgment.
How To Apply:
First, go to the lab website under “lab announcements” and download the 1-page application HERE Next, email desterre@umd.edu with the following 2 items attached: 1. Your completed 1-page application (WORD or PDF) 2. Your unofficial transcript (WORD or PDF)
