Social Judgment Research Team (Research Team 11)
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This is not a typical kind of course. In many courses, students sit and listen to lectures and are tested with exams.
Classmates compete against each other and can sit through an entire semester without saying anything. This couldn’t be farther from what we do in research team.
I’ll start by summing up with a few words: Passion for learning. Mentorship. Research experience. Interaction. Taking calculated risks together.
In this research team we spend three semesters together taking an intensive, social-personality psychology approach to studying how people make sense of their internal states, and how that process affects their motivation and social judgments. For example, we have studied how people make judgments about the self, other individuals, the accuracy of their own judgments, and the quality of things they have read. Team members read, write analytically and integratively about, and discuss current research in the field; collaborate in designing and running studies, interpreting results, and writing APA-style reports about our research; and work together to present our research at conferences (if anything works out!). |
We are (from L to R), standing: Greg Spirer, Shamika Jackson, Prof. Leigh Ann Vaughn, Steph Swan, and Ellen Gagne. Seated: Katy Childs, Maddy Lormand, Karine Russell, and Liz June.
What current team members say being on this research team is like