Children’s Gender and Racial Attitudes

Faculty:

Rebecca Bigler, PhD

Contact:

Erin Pahlke erin.pahlke@mail.utexas.edu

Description:

This semester, the Bigler lab will be working on several projects relating to children’s understanding of race and gender. Projects include studies of: (a) parental socialization of racial attitudes among young children, (b) effects of single-sex versus co-educational schooling, and (c) pre-adolescents internalization of cultural views of women’s sexuality. These projects will include interacting with participants from early childhood through adolescence. Our research is conducted in the labs on campus and in area schools. For more information about our lab, you can visit our website, http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/BiglerLAB/.

Qualifications:

We are seeking students who are enthusiastic, hard-working, and interested in this area of research. Students should be interested in working with children and should be responsible and reliable. Students should have some weekday hours available for data collection and lab meeting. We will be collecting data at an area middle school and on campus. Students may either register for PSY 357 or volunteer in the lab. We are in especially strong need of African American students to serve as confederates in one of our studies. However, students from other backgrounds can help with many other studies, and we encourage students from all racial/ethnic backgrounds to join our lab.

Duties:

Students will assist in collecting, coding, and entering data, as well as creating stimuli, and doing some library research. Students will also attend a weekly lab meeting and write a brief paper on their research experience.

PSY 357 Undergraduate Research Projects (FALL 2009)
PSY 357 Course Requirements

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