Department of Human Development
Gain Valuable Research Experience for Graduate School!
Become A Social Development Research Assistant!
Position:
Research Assistant for Social Development Project
Spring 2012
Course credit:
EDHD 498 or PSYC 479 (3 credits = 10 hours per week)
Preferred Majors:
Human Development Minors, Psychology, Family Science, Criminology Majors!
Project Description:
Primary responsibilities of projects involve interviewing children, and/or administering surveys to adolescents. Research Assistants learn about the process of research, read literature in developmental psychology, meet with a research group once a week (with the supervising professor), and learn how to enter and analyze data from interviews and surveys! Projects involve moral and social development, social exclusion, peer relationships, mind theory, group dynamics, intergroup relations, prejudice, bias and stereotyping.
Faculty supervisor:
Professor Melanie Killen, Ph.D., Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
Contact information:
Shelby Cooley (scooley1@umd.edu), Aline Hitti (ahitti@umd.edu), or Kelly Lynn Mulvey (klmulvey@umd.edu ), graduate student project coordinators.
