Apply to work as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the MDM Lab

Thanks for your interest in the Medical Decision Making Lab.  Undergraduates who have the best experience in the MDM lab tend to have these characteristics:

• strong record of scholarship
• works well independently
• aptitude for math and statistics
• pre-existing interest in research on decision processes
• passionate about psychology research
• plans for PhD graduate study in experimental psychology

To apply, please send an e-mail to Dr. Gretchen Chapman (gbc at rci.rutgers.edu).  Answer the following questions in your e-mail.

1. Name and contact information (e-mail and phone number)

2. Major, minor, year in college, and GPA

3. Why do you want to get involved in undergraduate research?

4. What skills and interests do you have to offer the MDM lab?

5. Do you have any previous research experience?

6. What topics in psychology particularly excite you, and what do you like about those

topics?  For example, is there a well-known theory or famous experimental result that really

interests you?

7. Graduate students in the lab have various research projects or interests described here and on

their individual web pages. Do you have particular interest in one or several projects? Please

indicate which ones if you do.

8. What are your post-graduation plans?  If you are thinking about graduate study in

psychology, what type of program interests you?

9. Anything else you'd like us to know about you?

Thanks very much for applying.