College Internship

We are accepting applications for the EPIC College Student Research Training Program!

Program Details

This program will include but not limited to:

Research Experience:

  • Research study: Participate in research projects involving challenging tasks, such as problem-solving tasks (like GRE) and interviews. Faculty interested in recruiting research assistants will review the performance of select students. (IRB#25-003)

Failure Coping Training

  • Wisdom from experts: learn about novel research on original interviews of Nobel Laureates and exceptional athletes on their personal experiences and insights
  • Research perspective: learn psychology related to emotion regulation, event interpretation, and self-regulation

Research Training

  • Knowledge extension: learn about cutting-edge research.Familiarity with foundational concepts, methodologies and classical psychology experiments
  • Skill development: Fundamental scientific methodology training; thematic qualitative analysis; basic quantitative analysis using SPSS
  • Personal mini-project development: develop an independent mini-project under EPIC mentorship (optional)

 

Program Duration

5 weeks

 

When

By cohort at the participants’ convenient time

 

Location:

  • This is a remote internship. Meetings will be on Zoom.

 

Workload:

  • A total of 10 to 15 hours (1-3.5 hours per week)

 

Who is eligible to apply

  • All interested college students (no major or grade requirement)
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Research Spotlight: “Even Einstein Struggled”

Students’ beliefs that success in science depends on exceptional talent negatively impact their motivation to learn. For example, such beliefs have been shown to be a major factor steering students away from taking science and math courses in high school and college. In the present study, we tested a novel story-based instruction that models how scientists achieve through failures and struggles.

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