Plan Ahead! Apply for a FALL Research Assistant Position with the Social and Moral Development Lab!

Social and Moral Development Lab FALL 2021 Research Assistant Positions

Description:

The Social and Moral Development Lab is recruiting 

Research Assistants to work on several exciting projects that involve research with children and adolescents. One of our new projects involves testing the efficacy of a web-based computer tool to enhance friendships across boundaries in children ages 8 to 11 years in public schools. We are eager to recruit Research Assistants from a range of racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Research Assistants in our 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 responses. Our projects involve children’s conceptions of fairness and merit, as well as examine topics of ethnic and racial identity development, gender, social exclusion, peer and intergroup relations, prejudice, stereotyping, and moral judgment.

Responsibilities:

-Data collection
-Data recruitment
-Qualitative coding
-Literature reviews
-Weekly lab meeting
-10 hours a week

Qualifications:
-Prefer some education in research
-Motivated
-Can Work In A Team
-Good at talking to strangers (parents/school officials)
-Good with children, prior experience optional

How To Apply:

Go to the lab website www.killenlab.umd.edu under “lab announcements” on the home
page and download the 1-page application.

Email asamuel2@umd.edu with the following 3 items attached:

1. Your completed 1-page application
2. Your unofficial transcript
3. Your current résumé or CV