UVA Implicit Social Cognition Laboratory

What Undergraduate Research Assistants Do

PSYCHOLOGY RAs

Undergraduate research assistants (RAs) receive 3 hours of psychology credit (PSYC 395, 396, 495, or 496) and spend approximately 10 hours per week in the lab. Typically, RAs run psychology experiments in the laboratory. Depending on interest and experience, RAs may also be involved in: data entry, literature searches, reading articles, or study design.

We also have a weekly RA meeting in which we discuss implicit attitudes and the current research.  Being an RA is a great opportunity to find out about the process of doing research and about implicit social cognition.

TECHNICAL RAs

Students from computer science or other information technology fields may also apply for internship or thesis positions with the software development team. The team's core project is building a virtual laboratory for the social and behavioral sciences. RA and thesis students will gain in-depth experience working in a software development group on a well-defined task that fits into a larger development effort.