Research Assistant - Child Cognition & Learning Lab

brown; United States; On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & Vision

Tuition assistance

Retirement plan

Wellness programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Brown University is seeking a Research Assistant to contribute to studies on children's causal reasoning and social cognition. The role includes designing experiments, recruiting participants, and managing online and lab workflows.

The ideal candidate will have a BA/BS in Psychology or related field and 1–2 years of experience, with proficiency in Qualtrics, SPSS, and R; Python or C++ is a plus. This is a fixed-term, full-time position onsite.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Education or related field required.
• 1–2 years of related research with children preferred.
• Familiarity with Qualtrics and statistics software (SPSS, R) required; Matlab or other programming languages a plus.
• Experience developing stimuli, experimental design, and empirical studies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement study materials and online/lab experiments.
• Recruit and test participants; manage scheduling and human-subject compliance.
• Program online experiments and manage lab computer systems and apparatus.
• Supervise undergraduate researchers and support graduate students in data collection and analysis.

Skills

Data analysis

Lab experiments design

Statistics interpretation

Research coordination

Education

Bachelor in Psychology or related

Cognitive Science or Education

Tools

Qualtrics

SPSS

R

Python

MATLAB

C++

Job description

Brown University is seeking a Research Assistant to contribute to studies on children's causal reasoning and social cognition. The role includes designing experiments, recruiting participants, and managing online and lab workflows.

The ideal candidate will have a BA/BS in Psychology or related field and 1–2 years of experience, with proficiency in Qualtrics, SPSS, and R; Python or C++ is a plus. This is a fixed-term, full-time position onsite.