Resources
Resources that I personally created or am involved in (in
bold), or have found personally helpful and would strongly recommend!
For researchers working with children
- PowerPoint autocoding for automatically coding participant responses from Microsoft PowerPoint stimuli to an Excel spreadsheet
For Stanford graduate students specifically
- Psych TA Orientation - annual psychology department-specific TA orientaiton before autumn quarter
- TA Orientation - annual university-wide TA orientation before autumn quarter
- TAO Any Time - TA Orientation in asynchronous Canvas course format
- Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) - get answers to your teaching-related questions or get feedback on your teaching
For prospective psychology/cognitive science 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
For undergraduates interested in psychology research
- List of paid summer research internships in psychology (Meltem Yucel)
- Get involved in your institution's psychology/cognitive science 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.
- Campflare - free campsite cancellation monitoring service for popular state & national parks (allows for more alerts and more customized alerts than native campsite reservation sites)
- Lost Coast Trail interactive tide chart - for planning a backpacking trip on the Lost Coast Trail around the tide chart (see very helpful official BLM resources as well)
