Dynamic Mental Representations

Freyd Dynamics Lab
Undergraduate Research

 Betrayal Trauma
Betrayal Trauma

Becoming a Dynamics Lab RA

Working in the Dynamics Lab, either as a volunteer or for research course credit, can be an extremely rewarding experience. If you are interested in doing so, there are several steps to take:

  1. Identify a sponsor. Each RA works under the supervision of one of the permanent members of the lab, typically with one of the graduate student lab members.
  2. Fill out an "Undergrad Research Assistant Job Application" and give it to your proposed sponsor.
  3. If you want to obtain course credit for your research experience, you will need to have the approval of your sponsor for the proposal, and must read and sign the "Requirements for Dynamics Lab Research Credit." Register for Psychology 401 with Professor Freyd.

If you are not able to get a research assistant position in the Dynamics Lab, or you decide it is not the lab for you, there are many other opportunities to do research in psychology. Find out more at the Psychology Peer Advising Office. which is located at 141 Straub Hall.

Scholarships and Special Projects

Angela Binder
McNair Program, 2003-2005, project completed spring 2005
"What's the Harm in Asking? Participant Reaction to Trauma History Questions Compared to other Personal Questions"
L.D. Cromer and J. Freyd, Mentors
Robyn Grimes
Summer Research Training in Clinical Psychology, summer 2004
Robyn is now a graduate student at the University of Oregon
Hannah Oh
Summer Research Training in Clinical Psychology, summer 2003
Hannah graduated in 2004 from Pepperdine University.
Meggy Wang
Summer Research Training in Clinical Psychology, summer 2005
Meggy is a student at Stanford University.

Cristen Lillie McLean
Institute for Development of Educational Acheivement
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2006-07

Dynamics Lab Honors Theses

Katie Spaventa receiving awardStudents who plan to pursue a career in psychology may consider applying to the departmental honors program at the end of their sophomore year. The honors program centers on an independent research project, which the student develops and carries out under the supervision of a departmental committee.

If you are interested in being an honors student in the dynamics lab you must identify an advisor /sponsor in the lab (advanced graduate student or Professor Freyd). We take very few honors students and usually require identificiation by the spring of the junior year. If you have not previously been an RA in the lab, you must complete the RA application form. When you have identified an honors advisor, you must complete the honors student agreement form.

For more information including a list of all recent UO Psychology Department honors projects, see the Psychology Honors Program and the Psychology Department Undergraduate Handbook.

(Photo is of Katie Spaventa and her poster, receiving award, 2007)

Recently Completed Honors Theses (Dynamics Lab) [Abstracts]

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Search dynamics lablast update October 15, 2007 jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu