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PSY 357 The UT Experience!
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Faculty:
Kim Fromme, Ph.D
Contact:
Marc Kruse kruse@mail.utexas.edu 471-8993
Amee Patel amee@mail.utexas.edu 471-8993
Description:
The SAHARA Lab focuses on the study of alcohol use and other risk-taking behaviors (e.g. risky sex, aggression/violence, illicit drug use) among college students. In Fall 2003, we will be simultaneously running three projects. The first is a 5-year study evaluating various factors that influence risk-taking behaviors among incoming freshmen throughout their college careers. Another study is exploring the relationship among social influence, personality, and alcohol use in college students. The third project will examine factors that influence students to significantly change their alcohol consumption.
We encourage you to find your own research interests through the academic component of the course. During your first semester, you will be given articles related to current projects on a weekly basis. Each week, you will be asked to write a brief reaction paper and participate in a group discussion about the article with other research assistants, graduate students, and Dr. Fromme. During your second semester, you will have the opportunity to independently research a lab-related topic of interest to you and present on your topic at the end of the semester.
Qualifications:
We require a commitment of 10 hours per week for 2 consecutive semesters from all research assistants.
Duties:
As a research assistant, your responsibilities may involve participant recruitment, participant scheduling, running laboratory experiments, conducting focus groups, and data maintenance.
Other Information
Students will participate in the conduct of experimental procedures and the collection and analysis of the data. Most of the experiments involve observational techniques. There will be a lab meeting once a week.
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