Psychology Department Lab Preview September 5, 2012 Welcome to the Lab Preview.

We believe that the chance to participate in research is one of the best opportunities that our department has to offer. By participating in a lab, you will see how research projects are conducted. Depending on the lab, you may also see how projects are developed, how data is analyzed, and how presentations are put together for conferences and publication. If you are involved in a lab for the long term, you may even contribute to a project that enables you to be a published researcher yourself. After todays presentations, you may want to learn more about particular labs. You can do so at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/research/facultyresearch/researchlabs.html Ways to be involved There are three ways you can be involved in a research lab: 1) As a volunteer Many students volunteer in research labs. Some labs require that a student participate as a volunteer for a period of time before they are allowed to become more official members of the lab. 2) Register for Supervised Individual Research (PSYC 3950) Many students register for supervised research. You may register for up to 4 points of supervised research per term. In general, you should figure that you will be working in a lab for approximately 3 hours per week per credit. This is not set in stone and must be negotiated with the specific lab that you will be working in. Different labs have slightly different requirements. As part of your supervised research, you will be expected to do some independent academic work related to the lab work you are doing. This may be a paper or an oral presentation, depending on the lab. 3) Work-study/Paid work Sometimes labs will hire undergraduates as work study students to work in their labs. Occasionally non-work study positions are available for students with very special skills that are needed (e.g., programming). This must be arranged with a particular lab on an individual basis. What we are doing today Today representatives from the psychology department research labs will talk with you about their labs and the role that you might play. Our presenters include faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and lab managers. Contact information for these individuals is included below. As you hear about projects that interest you, be sure to make a note by the name of the person who you would like to speak to about the project. Towards the end of the session, you will have an opportunity to talk with our presenters about getting involved in their research projects. If you are unable to speak with someone today, use the contact information that we have provided to get in touch with them later. In general, the best person to contact is the person who presented the project or the lab manager. If a graduate student presented the project, he or she is probably a better contact person than the faculty member who oversees the lab. Some of our presenters will tell you about their labs even though they do not currently need any research assistants. If you are interested in the research in these labs, you may want to contact them before the spring semester to see if they are looking for research assistants at that time.

Contact Information for Labs In many cases, the best contact person for the lab is the lab manager or one of the graduate students listed below. For labs without graduate students, you should contact the faculty member directly. Many of the graduate students listed are presenting today. In many cases, labs that are not represented today are not currently looking for research assistants, though this may not be true in all cases. (bus) indicates faculty affiliated with the business school.
Faculty Balsam, Peter Bolger, Niall Champagne, Frances Research Lab Learning and Adaptive Behavior The Couples Lab Behavioral Neuroscience, Maternal Behavior, Epigenetics Development of Social Behavior Social Relations Lab Human Behavioral Pharmacology Motivation and Social Cognition Functional MRI Research Center Physiological Bases of Visual Processes Culture and Choice Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) Consciousness and Cognition Lab Perception of Space and Form Metacognition and Memory Personality Structure, Processes and Development Sierra Kuzava sierra.kuzava@gmail.com Ellen Reynolds MobbsLab@gmail.com Christopher Crew cmc2225@columbia.edu Diana Keith Drk2117@columbia.edu James Cornwell jamesfcornwell@gmail.com Lab Contact Patricia Kabitzke pak2130@columbia.edu Matt Riccio mtr2128@columbia.edu Rahia Mashoodh rm2713@columbia.edu Lab phone and faculty e-mail 212-854-5312 balsam@columbia.edu 212 854-0127 coupleslab@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-2589 fchampag@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-7033 jc3181@columbia.edu 212-854-6923 gdowney@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-5313 clh42@columbia.edu 212- 854-8464 tory@psych.columbia.edu 212-342-0291 jh2155@columbia.edu 212-854-4587 dch3@columbia.edu 212-854-8539 siyengar@columbia.edu 212-854-7031 dhk@paradox.psych.columbia.e du 212-854-3947 hakwan@gmail.com 212-854-4325 matin@columbia.edu 212-854-4726 jmetcalfe@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-8450 wm@psych.columbia.edu 212-851-5576 cem31@columbia.edu 212-854-3608 dmobbs@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-2296 mwm82@columbia.edu

Curley, James

Downey, Geraldine Hart, Carl Higgins, E. Tory Hirsch, Joy Hood, Donald Iyengar, Sheena (bus) Krantz, David

Jeff Lagomarsino jl2647@columbia.edu Matt Sisco msisco@ei.columbia.edu Yoshiaki Ko mozartgonebad92@gmail.com Barbie Huelser Karen Kelly metcalfelab@gmail.com

Lau, Hakwan Matin, Leonard Metcalfe, Janet

Mischel, Walter

Monk, Catherine Mobbs, Dean Morris, Michael (bus) Fear, Anxiety, and Biosocial Behavior Judgment and Decision Making, Organizational Psychology

Ochsner, Kevin Purdie-Vaughns, Valerie

SCAN Lab Intergroup Relations and Diversity Lab (IRDL)

Alexa Hubbard adh2117@columbia.edu Ray Edwards rge2112@columbia.edu Rebecca Mohr rim2109@columbia.edu

212-854-1860 ochsner@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-1954 vpvaughns@psych.columbia.edu

Putnam, Lois Shohamy, Daphna Silver, Rae Sparrow, Betsy

Psychophysiology of Attention and Emotion The Learning Lab Neurobiology of Behavior The Function of Conscious Will and Authorship Processing, Social Interactions, Priming Taub Institute Cognitive Neuroscience Dividsion Primate Cognition Lab CRED Preferences As Memory (PAM) Center for the Decision Sciences (CDS) Neural Basis and Behavior of Social Communication

Nina Rouhani ninarouhani@gmail.com

Stephanie Figueroa snf2106@columbia.edu

212-854-4550 putnam@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-8859 shohamy@psych.columbia.edu 212-854-3909 qr@columbia.edu 212-854-8464 sparrow@psych.columbia.edu

Stern, Yaakov Terrace, Herbert Weber, Elke

Dan Barulli djb2168@columbia.edu Drew Alschul dma2147@columbia.edu Matt Sisco msisco@ei.columbia.edu

212-305-2515 ys11@columbia.edu 212-854-8785 hst1@columbia.edu 212-854-9889 euw2@columbia.edu

Woolley, Sarah

212-854-5448 sw2277@columbia.edu

The following list includes further descriptions of ongoing research in just some of the labs above, as well as listings for specific research positions. Not all positions have a listing. If a lab does not have a listing here, there may still be positions available. Global Leadership Matrix (GLeaM) Gain credit as an RA contributing to the Global Leadership Matrix (GLeaM) at Columbia Business School, a unique opportunity to gather experience in global leadership and to contribute your cultural intelligence to a pioneering initiative. Founded by Professor Sheena Iyengar, GLeaM was created with the goal of sharing knowledge about global leadership with individuals and companies from across the world. Our interdisciplinary focus knits together theoretical contributions from Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cultural Psychology and Sociology and aims to raise awareness about the importance of relations in companies and how these affect a leader's qualities. The world is growing closer together day by day, thus we pay special attention to cultural nuances and how these require different styles of leadership. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in data collection within organizations globally and data analysis using SPSS, STATA and/or R. This RAship will give you a chance to work in and with world-class organizations and you will be working closely with a team of faculty in the Business School, PhD students, and fellow RAs. If you are interested in contributing to this exciting project, please email your resume to Jeffrey Lagomarsino at jl2647@columbia.edu

Consciousness and Computation Lab Interested in psychology research? Study perception and consciousness with the Consciousness and Computation Lab! Research assistants will have the chance to work closely with project leaders, aid in data acquisition and subject recruitment, perform basic data analysis, and, if circumstances permit, lead their own projects! Our lab is very generous with acknowledging RAs in our papers; RAs have even been granted first authorship on occasion! We have volunteer positions as well as limited work-study positions available. For more information, please e-mail Yoshi, lab manager, at mozartgonebad92@gmail.com. SCAN Lab Research in the Social Cognitive Neuroscience lab examines the psychological and neural processes involved in extracting social, emotional, and cognitive meaning from the world. Current projects in our lab investigate: the cognitive up-regulation of positive emotion and motivation; the development of emotion regulation ability across childhood and adolescence; the effect of different mindsets toward food on appetite, enjoyment and other perceptions of the food (i.e, how does your experience of eating change depending on how you think about the food you are having?); using psychological and brain-imaging paradigms to predict peoples behavior and health outcomes. The dependent measures we collect include behavior, psychophysiology, and brain imaging (fMRI). The requested time commitment is about 15 hours/wk and would primarily involve scheduling and running participants through psychological tasks. If interested, contact Alexa Hubbard (adh2117@columbia.edu). The Fear, Anxiety and Biosocial Behavioral (FABB) Lab The Fear, Anxiety and Biosocial Behavioral (FABB) Lab is inspired by insights from behavioral ecology, social and clinical psychology and endeavors to understand the central determinants of the human emotional experience. We employ brain imaging (e.g. fMRI) and behavioral techniques to examine the neurobiological systems that coordinate fear in humans. Our theoretical stance rests on the long-standing view that fear is an evolutionarily favorable response, whereby increasingly unambiguous threat leads to a cascade of defensive responses that can be dichotomized as slow thoughtful actions vs. fast instinctive reactions. A second stream of research aims to determine the neural proxies that underlie social cognition. We are currently pursuing questions of how social behavior orchestrates and shapes emotion and how such operations are variably disrupted in psychiatric disorders. We are looking for volunteer research assistants to help in several projects including how perception of others influences our fear responses, and how the urban environment influences our attention to threat. For example, potential projects might examine how the environment alters our fears, how the social environment can reduce fear, or the basic fear systems associated with fight or flight. Depending on motivation and ability, research assistants will help in every aspects of research from research design, collection of data, analysis of brain-imaging data and writing of papers. This will be invaluable first-hand experience to any students who wish to have a career in academic research. Please contact Ellen Reynolds (MobbsLab@gmail.com) with your CV and a 1 page reasoning of why you would like to work in this lab, including potential research or study ideas.

Intergroup Relations and Diversity Lab Dr. Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Work on research exploring identity, diversity, and intergroup cooperation and how these processes affect individual performance and health. Gain valuable research skils using a variety of methods, from field studies to psychopsyiological measures. Prepare yourself for graduate school with mentoring and journal discussions. Stereotype Threat and Health: What is the affect of contending with negative stereotypes on stress, health outcomes and intellectual performance? The Divided Self: How does concealing an identity that is important to you and hidden from others lead to cognitive representations of distinct public and private selves? Intersectionality: Do people ignore or pay closer attention to people with multiple stigmatized identities? Stigma and mental illness: Are there cross-cultural differences in how Chinese Americans and Whites Americans stigmatize mental illness? Why does this occur? Volunteer, work study positions, and credit positions available. Interested? Email Rebecca (rim2109@columbia.edu) or Ray (rge2112@columbia.edu) for an application! Applications due Sunday, September 9th by 11:59PM METCALFE LAB: METACOGNITION & MEMORY Dr. Janet Metcalfe Metacognition refers to (a) our ability to monitor our own cognitive states (e.g., our ability to assess how well we understand a text or to judge how likely we are to remember a set of historical facts) and (b) the ways in which we use the output of this monitoring to make strategic decisions about how to study or what to study next (e.g., our decision to study the facts that we are less likely to remember before we review the facts that we are more likely to remember). In the Metacognition and Memory Lab we study the metacognitive processes that contribute to effective self-guided learning in both college students and young children. One of our central aims is to produce knowledge that can be used by students, teachers, and curriculum designers to improve educational practice. In addition, we study whether or not people can make metacognitive decisions about their ability to read other people's emotional states. We are interested in the relationship between understanding one's own mind (metacognition) and understanding another's mind (emotion recognition). We are also planning to begin a number of studies that will investigate agency (the extent to which we feel we are in control of our actions and thoughts). We would like to know what factors contribute to the ability to judge how in control we feel over our actions. If interested, please email us at metcalfelab@gmail.com.

Dr. Catheine Monks Lab Interested in learning how fetal experience affects later child development? Our laboratory investigates the possible effects of pregnant women's stress, depression, nutrition, and medication use on fetal and infant neurobehavioral development, specifically with respect to the future child's biobehavioral reactivity, brain development, affect regulation, learning and risk for psychopathology. We also are studying how intervention for mothers at-risk for postpartum depression mayimprove infant outcomes. Finally, new studies are exploring the role of epigenetic mechanisms in prenatal influences on infant outcomes. Our laboratory consists of researchers with varied backgrounds including clinical, developmental and health psychology; cognitive and affective neuroscience; psychiatry and biostatistics. Our laboratory investigates the possible effects of pregnant women's stress, depression, nutrition, and medication use on fetal and infant neurobehavioral development, specifically with respect to the future child's biobehavioral reactivity, brain development, affect regulation, learning and risk for psychopathology. We also are studying how intervention for mothers at-risk for postpartum depression may improve infant outcomes. Finally, new studies are exploring the role of epigenetic mechanisms in prenatal influences on infant outcomes. Our laboratory consists of researchers with varied backgrounds including clinical, developmental and health psychology; cognitive and affective neuroscience; psychiatry and biostatistics. If you work in our laboratory, you will: Help run psychophysiological studies with pregnant women, new mothers, newborns, and infants; Learn to use interactive software and biomedical equipment to process and analyze heart rate, blood pressure and fetal movement data; Learn about collecting EEG and MRI data; Code and enter data; Perform literature searches; Help with administrative duties If you are interested, please contact Sierra Kuzava (sierra.kuzava@gmail.com) The Learning Lab Prof. Daphna Shohamy Our research is focused on the intersection between learning, memory and decision making. We are interested in characterizing when and how different brain systems for learning interact and whether this interaction is competitive or cooperative. We focus on two main brain systems for learning - one in the striatum and the other in the hippocampus. Traditionally, the striatum and hippocampus were thought to support independent and distinct learning systems. We have demonstrated that there is cross-talk between these systems during learning, raising questions about the nature of this interaction and its significance for learning and decision making. We are now investigating how this cross-talk is impacted by several key factors, including: motivation and feedback, social context of learning, ageing, and genetic differences between learners. We study several populations, including: undergrads, Parkinson's Disease patients, older adults (50 - 85 years old), children, and adolescents. For more information, please see our lab website: http://shohamylab.psych.columbia.edu/ The current positions will be responsible for a wide-range of tasks, including: recruitment, running subjects, and data entry. RA's would also be invited to attend lab meetings. With experience, qualified RAs may be eligible to take on projects with greater responsibility and autonomy. Ideally, RAs will commit to working 5 - 10 hours/week for a minimum of two semesters.

Interested candidates are encouraged to email Nina Rouhani (ninarouhani@gmail.com), attaching their resume. Social Relations Lab As a research assistant in the Social Relations Lab (SRL), you will be working closely with other members of the laboratory (including other research assistants, graduate students and postdoctorate fellows) on one or more of our on-going research projects. Your involvement may include subject scheduling and running studies. In addition, you may be asked to enter or code data, conduct basic data analysis, prepare stimuli for projects, or do literature searches. To apply for a research assistant position, please complete an application (go to this link to find the application; http://socialrelations.psych.columbia.edu/join-us). Upon completion, please return the application to the Social Relations Lab mailbox in 406 Schermerhorn (please seal applications in an envelope and address them to the SRL lab) or e-mail the application to srlmgr1@gmail.com. Note: When inquiring about research assistant positions or submitting applications, if you do not receive a reply from us within a week, please email the SRL lab at srlmgr1@gmail.com. Generally, we recruit and interview potential research assistants toward the beginning of each semester but you can submit an application at any time. Applications are reviewed on a first-come first-served basis. Curley Lab The Curley Lab has available one research assistant position. Initial tasks will include the analysis of laboratory mouse behavior both live and on video. Future tasks will include the analysis of brain tissue for neurobiological markers related to social behavior. No previous research experience is required as full training will be provided. This position requires a commitment to a minimum of 10 hours per week. For further information please email Prof Curley jc3181@columbia.edu. Center for Research on Environmental Decisions The Earth Institutes Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) is accepting applications for new research assistants and interns. RAs and interns support the research of the center through literature reviews, development of surveys and educational materials, data processing, and direct support to experimental games and interviews. Essential qualifications include experience or a strong interest in social science research, and interest in sustainable development, climate change, and decision science. Additional specialized qualifications (not required by all applicants) include: experience running behavioral experiments, strong statistical ability, computer programming and/or web design, and fluency in foreign languages. To learn more about current CRED research visit cred.columbia.edu. To submit your application for volunteer, work for credit, and hourly positions, visit cred.columbia.edu/jobs

Adaptive Behavior Lab Dr. Balsam's work focuses on timing and motivation. I am a post-doc in this lab and my work is finding ways to assess social functioning is mouse models of neuropsychiatric disorders across the lifespan. We are looking for volunteers (to start) who can commit to a year, working a few hours a week with Patricia on her project. Please contact Patricia Kabitzke at pak2130@columbia.edu if you are interested.