WITH: Larisa Heiphetz and Professor Mahzarin R. Banaji, Psychology/FAS
COMMITMENT: Fall Term, approx 10hours/week
COMPENSATION: For Credit

POSITION DESCRIPTION: How do children develop a preference for and identification with the groups to which they belong? How do children and adults learn to think about different kinds of ideologies and belief systems? I am looking for a research assistant that will help me explore these questions. The main project this fall will look at the development of belief-based social preferences. We will test children and adults to see how they reason about people who share and do not share their beliefs, particularly their religious beliefs. We may also examine additional questions, such as how informative and important children and adults think religious beliefs are in comparison with other types of beliefs.
Duties: I am looking for a research assistant to work approximately 10 hours/week during the Fall 2011 semester. Duties will include working with participants (both adults and children who are in elementary school), coding data, and helping with literature reviews.
Location: Research assistants will work on Harvard’s campus and may also have the opportunity to collect data in Boston museums.
Compensation: Research assistants may receive course credit or, in special cases, volunteer.
To apply: Submit a copy of your CV/resume and a brief paragraph about why you are interested in this opportunity to Larisa Heiphetz using the form below.

CONTACT: Larisa Heiphetz

WITH: Professor Ken Nakayama, Dr. Maryam Vaziri Pashkam, and Jon Freeman, Psychology/FAS
TIME COMMITMENT: Fall term
COMPENSATION: Paid and For-Credit positions available

POSITION DESCRIPTION:
This position will involve assisting with research that attempts to understand human interaction and decision making in the context of full body movement interactive games. The experiments involve collecting data with a motion tracking device (Polhemus Liberty) which records two people's 3D hand movements while playing a competitive game. We are trying to mimic the goalie and attacker roles in a soccer game and see how player’s hand movements coordinate during the game and what role facial cues and other social factors play in the context of a game.

Several positions are available, some require technical background (computer programming) and some require running experiments, interacting with the subjects,and collecting data. You will be supervised by Prof Ken Nakayama, and Maryam Vaziri Pashkam (postdoctoral fellow) and Jon Freeman (Graduate Student) at Harvard Vision Sciences Laboratory.

Requirements: Background in Computer Science/Neuroscience/Psychology or related field is preferred. The candidate must have experience in programming. The candidate is expected to be organized, self-motivated, reliable and punctual. If interested, please send an e-mail including a statement of interest and a resume to Maryam Vaziri Pashkam using the form below.

CONTACT: Maryam Vaziri Pashkam