PSY 357 Various projects looking at personality in dogs
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Faculty:
Sam Gosling, Ph.D.
Contact:
Amanda Jones acjones@mail.utexas.edu
Description:
A better understanding of personality in dogs, has many uses. These range from a better understanding of personality itself, to applied uses such as better selection of pet dogs (in shelters) and working dogs (e.g., explosive detection or guide dogs).
Qualifications:
We require students be reliable, hard-working, and willing to commit 8-10 hours per week to in-lab or on-site research.
Duties:
Many opportunities for involvement exist, giving students a chance to gain experience collecting data, overseeing studies, helping design studies, working hands-on with dogs, rating and coding stimuli and film segments, and so on.
Students may gain this experience by becoming involved as 357 Research Assistants in one or more of the many studies in our lab. For example, if students are able to work on our temperament test assessment study, they will work side-by-side with graduate students doing hands-on temperament testing of dogs at Town Lake Animal Center. As another example, if students work on our study of people’s ability to read what dogs communicate, they will have the opportunity (after training) to administer questionnaire-based studies to human participants.
There are many opportunities for involvement – Contact us if you might be interested!
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