Research Assistant Positions The Social and Moral Development Lab
Full RA Position Description
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 Social and Moral Development 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. The Lab 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.
Must be available for weekly lab meetings from 2:30-4:30 pm every Wednesday.
How To Apply:
To submit an application, please go to the lab website at https://www.education.umd.edu/labs/social-and-moral-development-laboratory Scroll to the bottom of the page and download the application form. Please fill out this application and send it, along with your unofficial transcript, to moraldevelopment@gmail.com. These can be attached to the email as Word documents or PDFs.
