Summer 2023 REU: APPLY NOW!
The Boston College Developmental Psychology program is now accepting applications for our NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates summer internship. Summer interns will gain hands-on experience in all aspects of socio-cognitive developmental psychology research while also participating in professional development meetings and learning computer programming. This is an excellent program for students who want to learn more about research and/or who may be interested in pursuing graduate school. Successful applicants will work full-time for 10 weeks from May 31 - August 4, 2023. Students will be paid $600 per week plus provided on-campus housing across 10 weeks to participate.
This internship will take place in-person on Boston College’s campus. Students will be provided with on-campus housing in addition to their stipend.
There are four participating developmental psychology labs. Students will be accepted to primarily work within one of these labs for the duration of the summer. Students will indicate their lab preference in the application.
Participating Labs:
THE CANINE COGNITION LAB (Dr. Angie Johnston) investigates the evolutionary origins of human social learning by comparing human children and pet dogs. Building off of traditional developmental methods used with infants and children, interns will have the opportunity to gain new perspectives on classic developmental questions by investigating which aspects of human social learning are shared with dogs and which may be unique to humans.
THE COOPERATION LAB (Dr. Katherine McAuliffe) studies the development of cooperation in childhood, how the development of cooperation varies across different social and cultural contexts, and how an emerging psychology of cooperation in children interfaces with other aspects of conceptual development like perspective taking and group bias.
THE INFANT AND CHILD COGNITION LAB (Dr. Sara Cordes) studies how infants, children, and adults track number and acquire formal mathematical concepts (from verbal counting in preschoolers to algebraic concepts in teenagers), with a large focus on how learning of these concepts is influenced by social contexts and gender stereotypes.
THE LANGUAGE LEARNING LAB (Dr. Joshua Hartshorne) takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying how children learn language. In addition to traditional developmental research methods, the lab makes use of massive online experiments, in which tens or even hundreds of thousands of children and adults participate in a single experiment, and computational models of language acquisition.
Eligibility requirements: Students who are from underrepresented minority groups (Hispanics or Latinos, Blacks or African Americans, and American Indians or Alaska Natives), are first generation college students, are members of the LGBTQ+ community, or are veterans and who have had little or no research experience will be given priority. Additionally, applicants must be enrolled in an American undergraduate program and be entering their sophomore, junior or senior years. Interns will be required to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 including a booster shot in order to work on campus.
How to apply: Please complete this application form: https://forms.gle/VPjM2EpUVShCXs4P7. Note that you will be asked to upload your CV/resume as part of the application. You may also submit an unofficial transcript via email to allbcdev@gmail.com, but this is optional. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2023. No applications will be accepted after March 15, 2023.