Research Skills


See below for resources associated with the research skills workshops from SIPPS 2023. For materials from other years and/or workshop series, follow this link.


Week 1: What is a good research question?


Before the workshop:

Watch this pre-workshop video. Accompanying slides can be downloaded here.


During the workshop:

Download this worksheet.




Week 2: Literature search & Zotero


Before the workshop:

Watch this pre-workshop video.




Week 3: Issues of diversity and bias in psychological and neuroscience research


Before the workshop:

  • First, read this paper from Hruschka et al. (2018).
  • Then, read this paper from Clark et al. (2020). Note that this paper has since been retracted and is not an example of good research.




Week 4: Open Science & OSF


Before the workshop:

Watch this pre-workshop video. Accompanying slides can be downloaded here.




Week 5: Research ethics


Before the workshop:

Watch this pre-workshop video. Accompanying slides can be downloaded here.




Week 6: Qualtrics


Before the workshop:

Watch this pre-workshop video (from Dr. Andrew Baker at SDSU). We ask that you watch at least the first ~35 minutes, but you can continue beyond that if you’d like to.


During the workshop:

Download this worksheet and these slides.




Week 7: PsychoPy


Before the workshop:

Watch this pre-workshop video and download this file. This latter file is a ZIP file containing several images and an Excel sheet, so please unzip it after downloading to access the contents.


During the workshop:

Download these slides.




Week 8: Science communication


No pre-workshop video or materials. Slides will be provided after the workshop.




Week 9: Mini-Conference office hours / Q&A


During this session, we will be available to help with presentations for the end-of-summer SIPPS mini-conference. Any questions are welcome, about any stage of the research/presentation process (e.g., coding, stats, presentation formatting, etc).

  • For workshop-only students, there’s no need to attend this workshop session, but you’re welcome to join if you’d like! As long as there’s time, we’ll be happy to address other SIPPS-/research-related questions that don’t specifically pertain to final presentations.


Week 10: SIPPS Mini-Conference


During this session, we will hear from some of this summer’s SIPPS participants about their research projects.