See below for resources associated with the professional development & journal club workshops from SIPPS 2021. For materials from other years and/or workshop series, follow this link.
Week 1: What is a good research question?
Workshop materials:
Week 3: Journal club
Workshop materials:
- This week’s reading: Variety Wins: Soccer-Playing Robots and Infant Walking (Ossmy et al., 2018)
- journal club slides
Week 4: Cultural issues within psychology
No additional resources for this workshop.
Week 5: Journal club
Note: The journal club was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances and an informal live Q&A session was held instead.
Planned workshop materials:
- Journal club reading: People use both heterogeneity and minority representation to evaluate diversity (Abascal et al., 2021)
Week 6: CVs & Resumes
Workshop materials:
- workshop slides
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example CVs: Anna V., Camille G.
- Important! Don’t think of these CVs as a benchmark for what you need to accomplish to get into graduate school! There is a ton of variability in people’s research experiences, both in terms of the opportunities they’ve had access to and the amount of time they’ve spent in labs.
Week 7: Journal club
Workshop materials:
- This week’s reading: Doubts about double dissociations between short- and long-term memory (Ranganath & Blumenfeld, 2005)
- journal club slides
Week 10: SIPPS mini-conference (day 1)
During this session, SIPPS mentees who have completed independent research projects throughout the summer presented their work via posters and data blitzes.