Opportunities for prospective graduate students
Opportunities for prospective graduate students
Current graduate students in the MDM lab have authored published journal articles, won research awards, written their own grant proposals (some of which got funded), co-written federal grant proposals, and presented their work at national conferences.
Current Research
Much of the research in Dr. Chapman's lab focuses on two themes: (a) the way in which future outcomes are valued relative to present outcomes and how decision making incorporates time delays and (b) health applications of decision research (for example, how people decide to engage in preventive health behaviors) and ways in which decision making for health differs from decision making for money. For more information, see the current research page.
Resources
The MDM lab is funded by grants from NSF and NIH. Lab funds are often used to pay graduate student summer support (including the summer before the first year if desired), send graduate students to national conferences, and cover subject fees and lab equipment. The lab contains several computers for programing and running experiments, analyzing data (SAS and SPSS), and writing papers. Undergraduate research assistants are available to assist with library research, running subjects, inputting data, etc.
Ask us about the lab
If you are considering work in this lab, feel free to contact the following graduate students who have volunteered to give you an insider's view:
Prospective graduate students interested in working in the MDM lab should
apply for admission to either the cognitive or the social
graduate
area of the Rutgers Psychology department. Currently, graduate
students in both these areas work in the lab. Pick an area based
on your interests. Those particularly interested in medical applications
of decision making research may wish to apply to the social/health sub-specialty.
