List of Current Research Opportunities

Title	Research Area	Semester	Credits	Course Credit	Research Supervisor	Brief Description
Campana Lab	Cognition, Action and Perception	Spring Fall	1 2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Ellen Campana	We study perception of movement and music, the creative process in engineering design, second language learning, cognitive modeling and linguistics. For more information please visit http://ellencampana.faculty.asu.edu/
Cohen Lab	Social Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Adam B. Cohen & Angela Grace Pirlott, M.A	We are interested in examining broad ecological and cultural factors influencing interpersonal sexual attitudes and behaviors.
Cohen Lab #2	Social Psychology	Spring Fall	2 3	PGS399 Only	Dr. Adam Cohen	We are interested in the evolutionary and ecological factors that contribute to the development of cultural and religions attitudes and behaviors.
Corbin - Behavioral Alcohol Research for Clinical Advancement	Clinical Psychology	Spring Fall	3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. William Corbin Suzanne Zalewski	Research Assistants (RAs) are needed to assist with participant recruitment and data collection in an alcohol administration protocol. RAs will learn procedures for safely administering alcohol to human subjects and will also learn to administer survey and interview based measures.
Crnic Lab	Clinical Psychology Developmental Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Keith Crnic	We are currently seeking undergraduate research assistants to help with Las Madres Nuevas, a multi-lab study exploring how mothers and infants interact across the early postpartum period in a low-income, Mexican American sample.
Davis Lab	Clinical Psychology Social Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Mary Davis Wan Heung “Ellen” Yeung	We investigate the efficacy of several interventions in alleviation of chronic pain.
Glenberg Lab	Cognition, Action and Perception	Spring Summer Fall	2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Art Glenberg	How does the word "chair" mean the thing that we sit in? Work in the Glenberg Laboratory for Embodied Cognition is answering this question using developmental, behavioral, and neurophysiological methods
Goldinger Lab	Cognition, Action and Perception	Spring Summer Fall	2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Stephen Goldinger Megan Papesh	Topics include: visual search, working memory, face perception, eye-tracking, and language perception.
Gonzales Lab	Clinical Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	1 2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Nancy Gonzales	The Puentes a la Secundaria / Bridges to High School is family-focused prevention program to help Mexican/ Mexican American adolescents succeed in school and other important life areas, such as work and relationships
Kenrick/Neuberg Lab	Social Psychology	Spring Fall	3	PGS399 only	Dr. Douglas Kenrick Dr. Steven Neuberg Dr. D. Vaughn Becker Chad Mortensen Uriah Anderson Jessica Li Andrew White	How do evolved motives (avoiding disease, gaining status, finding a mate) influence our social behavior?
Kwan Lab: Medical and Health Decision Making	Social Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Prof. Virginia S. Y. Kwan	This research encompasses two primary objectives: an assessment of factors that lead to irrational and biased medical decision, and the development of communication techniques that can address and offset these biases.
Ladd Lab	Developmental Psychology	Spring Summer	2 3	PGS399 or PGS499	Gary Ladd	The Pathways Project is a longitudinal research project that has been collecting data regarding children's peer relationships and their psychological and academic adjustment.
Learning and Cognition Lab	Cognition, Action and Perception	Spring Summer Fall	2 3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr Michelene Chi (Professor) Dr Kasia Muldner (post-doc)	We focus on studying learning and cognition. For instance, we study effective ways of learning from self-explaining, collaborating, tutoring, and observing learning dialogues, as well as how misconceptions arise and how they can be addressed.
Lemery Lab	Developmental Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant	The Arizona Twin Project is a twin research study focused on understanding the influence of genetic and environmental factors on developing emotional development and the development of resilience in a primarily Hispanic sample of infant twins.
McBeath Lab	Cognition, Action and Perception	Spring Fall	1 2 3	Either PGS399 or PGs499	Dr. Michael McBeath Flavio Da Silva	Stroke Rehabilitation Project: We have been developing wearable robots interfaced with video games to provide repetitive motion therapy for people suffering from hemiparesis
Memory & Attention Control Laboratory	Cognition, Action and Perception	Spring Summer Fall	1 2 3	Either PGS 399 0r PGS 499	Gene A. Brewer, Ph.D. B. Hunter Ball, M.S.	Our research projects investigate human memory and attention capabilities and how they support a wide range of behaviors.
Neuberg Lab	Social Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Steven L. Neuberg Angela Grace Pirlott, M.A.	We are interested in how people use expressions of prejudice to regulate others’ sexual behavior.
Neuberg Lab	Social Psychology	Spring Fall	3	Either PGS399 or PGs499	None	We are currently exploring questions such as "Why do we stigmatize some people and not others?"
Neuberg Lab	Social Psychology	Spring Fall	3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Dr. Steven Neuberg	We study issues relating to prejudice and stereotyping.
Okun Lab - Chronic Pain and the Enterprise of Living	Clinical Psychology	Spring Summer Fall	3	Either PGS399 or PGS499	Morris Okun	This study examines how changes in daily pain can influence pursuit of daily goals and whether individual differences in risk and resilience factors modify whether pain disrupts goal progress among chronic pain patients

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