Research Assistant Position with The Maryland Child and Family Development Lab

Undergraduate Research Assistant  

Maryland Child and Family Development Lab  

The student will serve as a research assistant on a variety of projects, including a series of experiments examining attachment and social and emotional processes. Research assistants will play key roles in coordinating and/or conducting the experiments. Duties will include conducting study set up and break down, study administration, data collection, data entry, data cleaning, participant recruitment and scheduling, transcription, literature search, compilation of references, and other relevant duties for maintaining smooth operation of the lab. The student will work directly with research participants and will be directly supervised and mentored by Sayaka Awao and Reante Talton, graduate students in the Maryland Child & Family Development Laboratory, and Dr. Jude Cassidy.

Responsibilities: 

-Meeting with faculty mentor

-Data collection related activities: ~3-5 hours
-Data collection related activities: ~5 hours C) Miscellaneous lab tasks (e.g., transcription, data entry, literature reviews) : ~2-3 hours

Qualifications:

-At least 9 credits in PSYC (Psychology) courses.
-Overall GPA of at least 2.8.
-PSYC GPA of at least 3.0.

How To Apply:

Undergraduate students interested in becoming Research Assistants during the semester or for a summer internship with the Maryland Child and Family Lab can complete an online application through this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nM63FY57tU2F54rqZLNIs3xFIaoRrUEjeOpOHXseKzA/viewform?edit_requested=true. Alternatively, students can visit the Maryland Child and Family Lab’s official webpage and scroll down to the RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY section to access the application. For more information, students may reach out to the following individuals: Sayaka Awao (Graduate Assistant) at sawao@umd.edu, Reante Talton (Graduate Assistant) at rtalton@umd.edu, or Dr. Jude Cassidy (Principal Investigator) at jcassidy@umd.edu.