REU Site: Comparative and Developmental Origins of Social Cognition

REU 网站：社会认知的比较和发展起源

基本信息

批准号：
1659085
负责人：
Laurie Santos
金额：
$ 42.84万
依托单位：
Yale University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-04-01 至 2023-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659085&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
REU Site Comparative Developmental Origins

项目摘要

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. The REU program has both scientific and societal benefits integrating research and education. The broad goal of the Comparative and Developmental Origins of Social Cognition REU Site is to provide students from under-represented backgrounds with joint training in comparative and developmental psychology research. Students will gain experience investigating the origins of human social cognition from two different but related perspectives: developmental studies testing human children?s social understanding and comparative studies examining social cognition in domesticated dogs. REU students will have a rare opportunity to participate in all aspects of the research process: research design, subject recruitment, stimulus generation, data collection, data entry, coding, and statistical analysis. In addition, students will have the opportunity to interact as colleagues: participating in weekly lab meetings, reading current literature, contributing to theoretical discussions regarding the comparative and developmental origins of social cognition, and attending a professional development series focusing on topics such as applying to graduate school, getting the most out of your undergraduate career, etc. Students will meet weekly with a graduate student mentor, and the PI and co-PI will attend bi-monthly social events. A primary objective of this REU site is to include students who have fewer research opportunities, including those attending non-Research I universities and students from underrepresented groups and first-generation college students. In this way, this REU proposal aims to increase the odds that its undergraduates will be competitive in applying to graduate school in psychology or a related field. In addition, this REU site will be one of the few locations in the world where students can to learn study one topic (social cognition) from many perspectives including a comparative approach, a developmental approach and an adult social psychological approach.

该项目由 SBE 理事会的本科生研究经验 (REU) 站点计划资助。 REU 计划将研究和教育融为一体，具有科学和社会效益。 REU 社会认知的比较和发展起源网站的总体目标是为来自弱势背景的学生提供比较和发展心理学研究的联合培训。学生将从两个不同但相关的角度研究人类社会认知的起源：测试人类儿童社会理解的发展研究和检查家养狗的社会认知的比较研究。 REU 学生将有难得的机会参与研究过程的各个方面：研究设计、受试者招募、刺激生成、数据收集、数据输入、编码和统计分析。此外，学生将有机会作为同事进行互动：参加每周的实验室会议，阅读最新文献，参与有关社会认知的比较和发展起源的理论讨论，并参加专注于诸如申请学生将每周与研究生导师会面，PI 和 Co-PI 将参加每两个月一次的社交活动。该 REU 网站的主要目标是涵盖研究机会较少的学生，包括就读非研究型大学的学生以及来自代表性不足群体的学生和第一代大学生。通过这种方式，REU 的这项提案旨在提高其本科生在申请心理学或相关领域研究生院时的竞争力。此外，该 REU 网站将成为世界上为数不多的几个地点之一，学生可以从多个角度学习某一主题（社会认知），包括比较方法、发展方法和成人社会心理学方法。