Resources

Resources I personally created or am involved in (in bold) or would strongly recommend.

For researchers working with children

• PowerPoint autocoding for automatically coding participant responses from Microsoft PowerPoint stimuli to an Excel spreadsheet

For teachers and research mentors

• RA plan for onboarding and syllabus-like structure for a new research assistant (review & fill out collaboratively with RA)
• R tutorial sequence for those new to programming (covers RStudio, packages, basics of tidyverse)
• Visualizations of statistical concepts: linear models/linear regression, OLS & ANOVA, linear mixed effects models
• Demos for computational cognitive science

Stanford graduate students specifically

• attend Psych TA Orientation (annually before autumn quarter)
• attend university-wide TA Orientation (annually before autumn quarter)
• check out the asynchronous TAO Any Time Canvas course
• get feedback on your teaching or teaching-related questions answered at the Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL)

For graduate students

• Modest advice for new graduate students (Dorsa Amir)
• Personal Finance for PhDs (Do you know what a Roth IRA is? If you're on a fellowship, do you know what estimated quarterly taxes are? I learned all this and more!)

For prospective psychology graduate students

• Is graduate school right for you? / Are you ready to apply? (coming soon)
• Free online info sessions about graduate school in psychology (e.g. Paths to PhD run by Stanford Psychology, PPREP run by Harvard Psychology)
• Applying to graduate school
• How applying to graduate school works (Sokol-Hessner Lab)
• Writing a personal statement (see also: Acing Your Application, SPSP; MIT EECS Communication Lab's Graduate School Personal Statement guide)
• Sample inquiry emails, personal statements, CVs, interview questions (from NYU psychology graduate students)
• Look into financial aid for application fees and GRE fees (if you're taking it) early: e.g. application fee waivers from specific programs, Big Ten FreeApp program if you are applying to a Big Ten school, Queer in AI grad app funding
• Free online info sessions hosted by specific institutions about psychology PhDs generally, especially for those from underrepresented groups (e.g. Stanford Paths to PhD, Harvard PPREP)
• Free fully-funded visit days about specific schools' programs, especially for those from underrepresented groups (e.g. Northwestern Sneak Peak, search for a specific school + "diversity visit day")
• Project SHORT mentoring for applying to medical school and a variety of PhD programs
• Application Statement Feedback Program for psych PhD applications
• MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences application assistance program for those applying to MIT BCS

For undergraduate researchers

• R tutorial sequence for those new to programming (covers RStudio, packages, basics of tidyverse)
• Visualizations of statistical concepts: linear models/linear regression, OLS & ANOVA, linear mixed effects models
• Your university's scholarship office for scholarships you might be eligible for (e.g., NSF GRFP, Beineicke)

For undergraduates interested in psychology research

• List of paid summer research internships in psychology (Meltem Yucel)
• Get involved in your institution's psychology department! Take classes, go to talks/seminars, learn about what faculty work on, talk to more senior psychology majors, talk to undergraduate-facing department members about getting invovled in research (e.g. undergraduate student services officer, director of undergraduate studies, research placement director)
• Read and consume omnivorously. Read newspapers, magazines, academic articles, fiction, and nonfiction. Watch videos, movies, and free online recorded classes. Listen to radio and podcasts.