Research Assistant Openings
Are you caring, conscientious, and careful?
The Emotions and Neuroplasticity Project (http://projectpos.uoregon.edu) headed by Dr. Christina Karns has openings for Research Assistants for Summer 2015 and beyond.
You may receive course credit or volunteer. A commitment of at least two terms is required. Some aspects of the research and training can take place out of Eugene (e.g. student works from home over the summer).
Research Assistants will be trained in reading anonymous journal entries and rating them for emotional content as part of an analysis of existing functional neuroimaging data (fMRI).
We study the relationships between emotions, social reasoning, decision-making, and the brain. People respond differently to everyday situations that require decisions about whether to help or be helped by others. We ask whether engagement in different activities, such as journal writing, can change behavioral and brain responses to social scenarios and decisions about giving and helping. We aim to advance the understanding of how emotions relate to changes in key brain networks, and how we might bias the brain towards a mode of functioning that features heightened capacity for happiness and connection to other people in life.
If you are interested, please fill out this online application.