Psychology Undergraduate Research Opportunites
If you are interested in earning academic (Psych 499) credit for working in a lab, follow these steps:
Locate a project. Check opportunities listed here or in the hallway outside of the Psychology Advising Office (119 Guthrie Hall), or check a faculty list to find someone whose interests match yours.
- Contact the researcher(s) you've identified. Discuss the project and the work you would be doing, and decide how many credits you would like to receive (3 credits = 9 hours/week, 2 credits = 6 hours/week, 1 credit = 3 hours/week).
- Get a registration permission card from the Main Office (Guthrie 119) and have the faculty person sign the card and give you a copy of the syllabus.
- Take the signed card and project syllabus to the Main Office (Guthrie 119) and exchange it for your entry code.
- Register for your 499, for the proper amount of credits.
Current Research Opportunities
Interested in working with a faculty member or graduate student on a research project? The following projects are recruiting undergraduates to help out in their labs.
If you are a Psychology graduate student, staff or faculty member and you would like to update your Psych 499 posting or add a new Psych 499 opportunity, please contact Vicky Burke in Psychology Undergraduate Advising at 206-543-2698 or at burkev@u.washington.edu.
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Coming to America: Immigrant Psychology and Health |
Adult Clinical |
Daily Health Assessment Project |
Adult Clinical |
Event-Specific Prevention (ESP) |
Adult Clinical |
Extended Family Study of Autism |
Adult Clinical |
Fragmentation and PTSD |
Adult Clinical |
Gambling Projects: Basic Research & Clinical Interventions |
Adult Clinical |
Have you scene that? Exploring emotion & memory using film |
Adult Clinical |
Health Psychology (HIV and LGBT issues) |
Adult Clinical |
Housing First |
Adult Clinical |
iCHAMP: Individualized Choices for Health, Alcohol, and Marijuana Project |
Adult Clinical |
Intervention with Pregnant Substance Abusers: The Power of Relationship |
Adult Clinical |
MC2: Motivating Campus Change |
Adult Clinical |
Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention |
Adult Clinical |
Opinion Masculina |
Adult Clinical |
Program Evaluation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy at Harborview Mental Health Services |
Adult Clinical |
Project AIMS (Alcohol Interventions for Mandated Students) |
Adult Clinical |
Project DASH (Daily Assessment of Student Health) |
Adult Clinical |
Project REACH: Research & Education on Alcohol & College Health |
Adult Clinical |
Psychophysiology and PTSD |
Adult Clinical |
Relationship Coaching Study |
Adult Clinical |
Social Norms and Alcohol Prevention (SNAP) |
Adult Clinical |
Stress and Coping Model of Alcohol Use among Treatment-seeking Asian American Adults |
Adult Clinical |
Studies on Borderline Personality Disorder, Suicidal Behaviors and Drug Abuse |
Adult Clinical |
Studies on Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder, Suicidal Behaviors and Substance Dependence |
Adult Clinical |
Study and Travel Abroad Research Project |
Adult Clinical |
Trial of a ‘Next-Day Appointment’ Outpatient Treatment for Suicidal Patients |
Adult Clinical |
UW BASICS Project |
Adult Clinical |
Behavioral Welfare Observations at Woodland Park Zoo |
Animal Behavior |
Environmental Enrichment of Laboratory Monkeys |
Animal Behavior |
Hybridization in Manacus manakins |
Animal Behavior |
Predation and Nesting Behavior in an Endangered Bird |
Animal Behavior |
Song learning, communication and mating behavior in song sparrows |
Animal Behavior |
Hormones, Cognition, Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease |
Behavioral Neuroscience |
Insulin, Blood Sugar Regulation, and Alzheimer's Disease |
Behavioral Neuroscience |
Social learning in the development of communication and echolocation calls in the big brown bat |
Behavioral Neuroscience |
Adolescent Stress, Health and Behavior Project |
Child Clinical |
Biology of preschool ADHD |
Child Clinical |
CAST Middle School Study |
Child Clinical |
Child & Adolescent Adjustment Project (CAAP) |
Child Clinical |
Domestic Violence Parenting Program for Moms & Kids |
Child Clinical |
Early Connections Study |
Child Clinical |
Early Steps Study |
Child Clinical |
Emotion Coaching Parenting Intervention |
Child Clinical |
Imitation, Empathy, and the Mirror Neuron System, at the UW Autism Center |
Child Clinical |
Infant Brain Imaging Study |
Child Clinical |
Learning to Connect |
Child Clinical |
Middle School Coping Study |
Child Clinical |
Ongoing Street Youth Studies (Projects SHARE & MARS) |
Child Clinical |
Parent Toddler Project |
Child Clinical |
Personal Risks and Resources of Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes |
Child Clinical |
Preschool Emotion/Self-regulation Coding Project : Project 1, 2, 3, Go! |
Child Clinical |
Preschoolers’ Physiology Project: Project 1, 2, 3, Go! |
Child Clinical |
Project 1, 2, 3, Go! (Research on the development of self control in preschool- age children) |
Child Clinical |
Simons Foundation Autism Project |
Child Clinical |
Smoking Acquisition and Cessation Studies |
Child Clinical |
Validation and Emotion Regulation |
Child Clinical |
Effects of Attention in Marketing and Video Games |
Cognition and Perception |
Human Color Vision |
Cognition and Perception |
Perception and Memory |
Cognition and Perception |
Reality Biases in Children |
Cognition and Perception |
UW Autism Center Lab: Autism and Visual Processing |
Cognition and Perception |
COUPLES IN CONFLICT: Creating Healthy Relationships Project |
Developmental |
Developmental Pathways Project |
Developmental |
Early Childhood Cognition Lab |
Developmental |
Early Social-Emotional Development |
Developmental |
Early Steps Study: Improving identification and treatment for children with early signs of autism |
Developmental |
Growth & Behavioral Development in Macaque Monkeys |
Developmental |
Infant Social Cognition |
Developmental |
Infant Studies |
Developmental |
Prevention in Foster Care Project |
Developmental |
The Adolescent Development |
Developmental |
The Infant Learning Project |
Developmental |
The Plagiocephaly Outcomes Project (POP) |
Developmental |
UW Autism Center Lab: Eye Processing in Fragile X and Autism |
Developmental |
Brian Flaherty's Lab |
Quantitative Psychology |
Are Japanese Inscrutable: Faces, Feelings & Culture |
Social and Personality |
BEHAVE project: Shoda Lab |
Social and Personality |
I-LABS Research |
Social and Personality |
Identity and Stereotyping |
Social and Personality |
Multiple and Mistaken Identities |
Social and Personality |
Multiracial Perception |
Social and Personality |
Project FRESH |
Social and Personality |
Project MAST |
Social and Personality |
RADAR project: Stereotypes, Identity and Belonging Lab (SIBL) |
Social and Personality |
Self Control in Undergraduates |
Social and Personality |
Social Cognition |
Social and Personality |
Social Games |
Social and Personality |
Social Identity Lab |
Social and Personality |
Social Justice Implications of the Model Minority Stereotype |
Social and Personality |
Social Status & Prejudice |
Social and Personality |
Stereotypes, Identity, and Belonging Lab (SIBL) |
Social and Personality |
Stress and Coping |
Social and Personality |
Stress Vulnerability |
Social and Personality |
Virtual Reality, Imagination and Real
Social Experiences |
Social and Personality |