Approaching Faculty Members:
Step 1: Get acquainted with faculty member’s research
Step 2: Learn what the professor’s require in their research assistants
Step 3: Send the professor an email detailing your background, skills and availability
Psychology Faculty Research
562-985-5058
Area(s) of interest:
1) The relationship between behavior and disease and substance abuse
2) Health psychology, addictive behavior, and measurement
Requirements: statistics and measurement background
Participation: 20 hours per week
562- 985-1545
hnguyen@csulb.edu
Area(s) of interest:
1) Student use of myspace for social support and job seeking
2) Vietnamese and Vietnamese- American entrepreneurship
Requirements: “B” or better in research methods, introductory stats, Intro I/O Psy and a two semester commitment
Participation: 5 hours a week minimum, literature review, data collection & analysis
Dr. Strybel
562-985-5035
Area(s) of interest:
1) Visual Search
2) Auditory cuing for searching
Requirements: completion of sensation and perception or cognition, 110 Introductory statistics, 310 intermediate statistics, Psychology 418/518 Computer applications in psychology (preferred)
Participation: 5-10 hours per week, data entry, clerical duties, running participants, setting up experiments
562 985 2191
Area(s) of interest:
1) Program Evaluation
Evaluating 52 week battered women’s program
Evaluating Sexual prevention program
Requirements: Completion of Race, Class and Gender
Participation: 5-10 hours per week for Psy 499 credit
Area(s) of interest: Cognition and Evolutionary Psychology, cheater detection, working memory and executive control, metaphor comprehension
Requirements: Only recruits students from his classes
562 985 5351
Area(s) of interest: Stress, coping, health, personalty variables that affect stress levels and decisions about how to cope, design and publish scales to measure stress and coping
Requirements: PSY 200 (Research Methods), PSY 110 (Introductory Statistics), PSY 314 (Assessment) Preferred or at least PSY 356 (Personality)
Dr. Young- Hee Cho
562 985 5019
Area(s) of interest: judgment and decision making/social
Requirements: PSY 110, courses in writing, knowledge of SPSS
Participation: 5-6 hours/week, data collection & coding & analysis
562 985 5030
Area(s) of interest: memory, metacognition
Requirements: grades of B or better in PSY 100, 110 and 200
Participation: 6-10 hours per week, data collection, library research
562 985 5010
Area(s) of interest: the impact of aggressive behavior and violence
Requirements: PSY 110 and PSY 200 preferred (or currently taking)
Participation: 6-10 hours per week, duty is running experiments (data collection) and possibly some data entry, analysis and write up
562 985 5038
Area(s) of interest: interview coaching, employment expectations of individuals with developmental disabilities, program evaluation for the college of liberal arts
Requirements: completed introductory statistics, research methods, completed of PSY 381 (preferred), GPA over 3.5 and students are required to enroll in PSY 499 for 1-3 units
Participation: amount of time commitment depends upon the number of units desired, article searches, study design, data collection, data entry
562 985 5021
Area(s) of interest: human cognition and performance, human factors and human computer interaction
Requirements: Completion of PSY 100, 200, 110. The completion of PSY 332 & 310 is preferred, overall GPA over 3.0, PSY 499 students are required to write a paper
Participation: 6-9 hours per week (2-3 units), assist with data collection, data entry and data analysis, engage in discussion of research
562 985 5036
Area(s) of interest: Conversational Interaction
Requirements: Cognition and or psycholinguistics
Participation: 3 hours per week, coding protocols, entering data for data analysis, pilot testing new materials
562 985 8005
Area(s) of interest: Stress, health during pregnancy, mental health and cardiovascular health
Requirements: 1 year commitment, 3.0 GPA or better, prefer introductory statistics and or research methods, must not be a senior, experience in psychology and personality or emotion classes
Participation: 12 hours per week for 3 PSY 499 credits,. literature searches and data analysis, literature reviews, clinical interviews, writing papers
Dr. Warren
562 985 5025
Area(s) of interest: retaliation at work, the role of emotions and moods at work, how we measure work attitudes
Requirements: basic research methods, experience in psychology and personality or emotion classes
Participation: 5-10 hours per week, literature searches and basic assistance (data entry)
Dr. Span
562 985 7429
Area(s) of interest: ADHD, alcohol/substance abuse and clinical neuropsychology
Requirements: should have completed PSY 110 & 200
Participation: running subjects, data entry, statistical analysis (with professor’s assistance)
Dr. Maxfield
562 985 5029
Area(s) of interest: memory, cross cultural perspective memory study
Requirements: Able to commit to running participants, five to eight hours per week, able to interact well with fellow students
Dr. Jorgenson
562 985 5032
Area(s) of interest: Social Psychology
Requirements: should have completed PSY 110, 200, 351, students should have a genuine interest in the research project
Area(s) of interest: Motivation, social psychology
Requirements: research methods,
Participation: running participants, 6 hours per week, analyzing data, responding to emails
