Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Comparative and Developmental Cognition

这个REU网站的主要目标是为学生提供比较和发展心理学研究方面的联合培训。学生们将获得从两个不同但相关的角度研究人类社会认知起源的经验：测试人类儿童社会认知的发育研究，以及比较研究非人类灵长类动物，特别是卷尾猴的社会认知。REU网站为期10周的项目将招收一批不同的本科生，他们将在耶鲁大学的比较认知和社会认知发展实验室共同工作。REU学生参与研究过程的方方面面：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，为关于社会认知的比较和发展起源的理论讨论做出贡献，并参加职业发展系列活动，重点是申请研究生院、从本科生涯中获得最大收益等主题。学生每周与研究生导师会面，PI和共同PI参加双月一次的社交活动。这个REU网站的一个主要目标是包括那些研究机会较少的学生，包括那些在非研究型大学就读的学生，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，PI旨在增加这些学生在申请心理学或相关领域的研究生院时具有竞争力的机会。REU的学生将加入耶鲁充满活力和协作的研究环境，一个既强调本科生教学和指导，又强调前沿研究的环境。这两个实验室都有开展实习项目的历史，在实习项目中，学生们积极参与合作，发表令人兴奋的科学研究成果。这些计划包括那些没有经济能力自己支付实习计划费用的学生。除了是本科生研究的理想环境外，这些实验室探索的主题也是独一无二的。这个REU网站是世界上为数不多的学生可以从多个角度学习同一主题(社会认知)的地点之一，包括比较方法、发展方法和成人社会心理学方法。REU及其相关研究具有相当广泛的影响。这个项目的参与者代表了一个广泛且经常被排除在外的研究人员群体，包括代表不足的群体的成员、第一代大学生和就读于非研究I大学的学生。除了对相关人员的专业发展产生广泛影响外，学生的研究将集中在重要的社会主题上，涵盖偏见和歧视的起源和发展、正义和道德、帮助和利他主义等重要社会问题。通过这种方式，这个REU网站在学生发展和与社会相关的研究结果方面都提供了更广泛的影响。

The broad goal of this REU Site is to provide students 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 examining social cognition in non-human primates, specifically capuchin monkeys. The REU site's 10-week program will host a diverse group of undergraduate students to work jointly in the Comparative Cognition and Social Cognitive Development Labs at Yale University. The REU students 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 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 their undergraduate career, etc. Students meet weekly with a graduate student mentor, and the PI and co-PI 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 universities and students from underrepresented groups and first generation college students. In this way, the PIs aim to increase the odds that these students will be competitive in applying to graduate school in psychology or a related field.Intellectual Merit. The REU students will join a vibrant and collaborative research environment at Yale, one that emphasizes both undergraduate teaching and mentoring, but also cutting-edge research. Both labs have a history of running internship programs in which students actively participate in collaborating on and publishing exciting scientific research. These programs include students who do not have the financial ability to pay for the internship program themselves. In addition to being an ideal environment for undergraduate research, the topics explored in these labs are unique. This REU site is one of the few locations in the world where students can learn to study one topic (social cognition) from many perspectives including a comparative approach, a developmental approach and an adult social psychological approach.Broader Impacts. The REU and the associated research have considerable broader impacts. The participants in this program represent a wide-swath and often excluded group of researchers including members of underrepresented groups, first-generation college students and students attending non-Research I universities. Aside from the broad impact on the professional development of the personnel involved, the students' research will focus on important social topics, spanning such important social issues as the origins and development of prejudice and discrimination, justice and morality, helping and altruism. In this way, this REU site provides broader impacts both in terms of student development and in terms of socially-relevant research findings.