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The Festivals Project

August 15, 2022 08:42 PM
This is an ongoing project. New research assistants will be recruited yearly.
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Process Research in Couple Therapy

August 30, 2021 10:54 AM
The overarching goal of this project is to understand how couples change during couple therapy. We use couples’ responses to questionnaires that are administered throughout therapy as part of the Marriage and Family Therapy Process Research Network and/or video recordings from sessions of therapy to examine processes of interest. Each year we examine a different aspect of the change process. This opportunity is particularly useful for students interested in pursuing graduate training as a marriage and family therapist.
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READY: Researching Emerging Adults Developmental Years

July 14, 2020 11:23 AM
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.
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Sexual Mindfulness Project

May 01, 2020 09:35 AM
The Sexual Mindfulness Project examines how being more aware and less judgmental may be linked with sexual well-being.
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Sibling Influence on Becoming Adults Study

August 22, 2019 09:56 AM
An examination at how siblings influence one another in reaching important markers of adulthood. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290 & STATS 121 (preferred).
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Premarital Education in Utah Project

August 22, 2019 09:55 AM
Evaluate the effectiveness of Utah's new policy promoting premarital education. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290. RAs can receive either pay or credit.
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Media, Children, and Families

August 22, 2019 09:54 AM
Observational study examining the impact of media on family relationships.. RAs are encouraged (but not required) to take SFL 290. RAs can receive credit or pay.
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Sound Money Management and Marriage

August 22, 2019 09:51 AM
A quantitative study that examines the association between sound financial management behaviors and marriage. RAs can receive credit.
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Disaster and Families

August 22, 2019 09:51 AM
We are conducting a series of literature reviews regarding what we know about what happens to family relationships in the wake of natural disaster. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290.
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Effectiveness of Relationship Education Project

August 22, 2019 09:50 AM
Ongoing meta-analysis of the effectiveness of relationship education. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290 and Stat 121. RAs can receive credit.
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Family Finances

August 22, 2019 09:49 AM
In the process of developing a new major project in the Fall. RAs can receive pay or credit.
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The Relationship Educator Blog

August 22, 2019 09:46 AM
A regular blog helping to keep relationship educators up-to-date with the latest research. RAs should prepare by taking SFL 290 & Stat 121 (SFL 325 preferred). Likely recruiting in September 2018.
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Project M.E.D.I.A

August 22, 2019 09:45 AM
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.
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MORE: Minority-Oriented Research Evaluation

August 22, 2019 09:31 AM
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 and sample characteristics. Recruiting RA's for credit now and recruiting RA's for pay later.
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Project AHEAD (Advancing Health and Education for Adolescent Development)

August 19, 2019 09:45 PM
Project AHEAD (Advancing Health and Education for Adolescent Development) investigates how gender-based socialization during the adolescent years (e.g., gender roles, gender stereotypes) shapes adolescent adjustment outcomes, particularly mental/emotional health and academic well-being. We will be collecting two waves of longitudinal data on a national sample of adolescents between Fall 2019 and Winter 2020. RAs are being sought to begin as early as Summer 2019. Potential applicants are encouraged to have taken Research Methods and Statistics. Prior research experience is encouraged, but not required.
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Healthy Sexuality Project

August 19, 2019 09:44 PM
This project explores parent-child sex communication as it relates to children and adolescents’ development of healthy sexuality. The project also focuses on adults’ healthy sexuality within committed relationships. We have cross-sectional pilot and measurement data, and in the Fall of 2019 plan to begin gathering longitudinal data to explore how healthy sexuality is socialized and develops over time.
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CEC

August 19, 2019 09:43 PM
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.
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American Families of Faith

August 19, 2019 09:42 PM
The American Families of Faith research project is a national research project involving in-depth, qualitative interviews with nearly 300 religious couple and families (500+ individuals) from all eight regions of the United States. We interview "exemplary" families with strong marriages and learn how they have overcome challenges in life, marriage, and parenting--and how their faith has helped them do so.
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