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PSY 390 Research Opportunity


Spring 2012

 

Faculty member or graduate student

Susan C. South, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Clinical area


Description of research area

Research interests are personality, personality disorders, and psychopathology. Particularly interested in the transactions between relationships (e.g., marital functioning) and individual differences in functioning. Continuing research in the lab will examine: 1) how personality traits and clinical disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety) affect marital relationship functioning; 2) the structure of personality traits and symptoms of mental illness; and 3) personality and psychopathology predictors of sexual behavior. Also will examine interpersonal perception of personality, and how differences in self vs. other report are related to important outcomes.


Description of undergraduate participation

Your responsibilities (and the skills you will acquire in the lab) will include:

  • Testing subjects, collecting and scoring data
  • Reading research articles
  • Creating and collecting materials
  • Programming experiments (using MediaLab)
  • Performing data analyses (using Microsoft Excel and SPSS)
  • Library research


Research setting

Laboratory in the psychology department


Number of assistants needed

4


Contact information

ssouth@psych.purdue.edu


Additional comments

Must have completed PSY 120, completion of PSY 350 is preferred; prefer sophomores or above with GPA of 3.5 or above.