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READY is a longitudinal study that aims to provide a comprehensive description of the transition to adulthood. Before applying please complete SFL 290 & Stats 121. RAs can receive credit or pay.

The Sexual Mindfulness Project examines how being more aware and less judgmental may be linked with sexual well-being.

Project MEDIA recruits new Research Assistants each fall. Students that are hired will take a 3 credit 403R class during Winter semester and will work up to 40 hours a week (paid) during the summer. The project hires a team of research assistants to collect data in Denver as well as a team that codes data and will stay in Provo.

MORE: Minority-Oriented Research Evaluation is a cross-disciplinary content analysis project examining the social sciences literature and its attention to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities. Student researchers will categorize and code journal articles based on topic, level of minority focus, methodology, sample characteristics, and other quantitative factors. Recruiting RA's for pay (starting at $14.25).

In the CEC, we aim to understand how we make sense of the world around us. We investigate the development of social cognition and emotion understanding in infancy and childhood by assessing infants' emotion attributions, false-belief understanding, imitation/emulation, and false-emotion attributions using a multi-method approach, which includes non-verbal measures, behavioral paradigms, violation-of-expectation paradigms, and eye-tracking. We also investigate the role of context in emotion perception, especially as it pertains to how facial expressions of emotion are categorized and visually processed. Potential applicants are encouraged to have taken Research Methods and Statistics. Prior research experience is encouraged, but not required.

The Couple Relationships and Transition Experiences (CREATE) study is a nationally representative longitudinal study of newly married couples. The study involves 2,187 couples, most of whom were married in 2014, and explores aspects of relationships and how transitions are associated with relationship qualities. To prepare RAs are encouraged to take SFL 290 and Stats 121 or equivalent in other major (not required, but helpful).