Department of Psychology
Undergraduate Advising Office

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Transform your research capabilities with cutting-edge AI tools that work as your intelligent research partner. Master the art of AI-powered scientific discovery using a variety of AI-tools, including: ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity to accelerate literature reviews, enhance data analysis, and elevate your writing in psychology research. Through hands-on projects spanning behavioral, clinical, educational, or engineering domains, you'll conceive, design and execute graduate-level research from concept to publication draft. Small teams will collaborate on real-world challenges in mini-research projects on how to train humans to work in human+AI assistant teams. By the end of the course, you will have completed a research project using AI tools and developed a hybrid skillset that research institutions and innovative companies actively seek, and that will position you competitively in today’s job market.

Meeting times Tuesdays 4:00-5:50, Thursday 4:00-4:50

Class objectives

• Get you to be an expert user of AI and work in human + AI teams in behavioral research projects
• Learn behavioral research methods with your own AI Personal assistant
• Working in small teams that you can:
• Review the literature for a research project
• Design a behavioral empirical assessments of AI use and how to train more effective use
• Execute the experiments collect the data
• Choose and perform statistical analyses (with AI assistance)
• Write up the experiment in APA style for submission
• Do PowerPoint presentations of the work

Are you interested in enrolling in a course but would like more information about the focus, structure, or requirements for it? The Department of Psychology has begun to collect and make available most current syllabi on our website for your reference. We will update this list each term as new courses are offered.

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Supervising Faculty: Tom Kamarck, Ph.D.

Contact: Dr. Kamarck, tkam@pitt.edu

Area of Research: Biological and Health Psychology

Description of Research: This is a collaborative project with Dr. Lindsay, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, that examines the effects of a smartphone-based mindfulness intervention on stress exposure and biological stress responsiveness during daily life. We are recruiting 105 research volunteers who have high blood pressure and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease and who are experiencing high levels of psychological stress. Participants are randomly assigned to a one-month smartphone-based mindfulness intervention or a control condition, and their daily life experiences and ambulatory blood pressure are monitored at baseline, after the completion of the intervention, and during a three-month follow-up visit.

Duties of Students: Students will be involved in a number of duties in the laboratory, including contacting interested participants, training participants in ambulatory monitoring methods, data collection and interviewing with research volunteers, data management, assisting with the preparation of research materials, and conducting literature searches. Students will have an opportunity to interact with research volunteers, to be involved in the data collection process, and to learn about the principles of clinical research. Students will attend weekly research meetings where they will learn about the collection of ambulatory behavioral and biological data, and they will be exposed to ongoing research projects in the laboratory group. Each student will complete a paper or presentation by the end of a 2-semester period, with the possibility of participating in a poster presentation in the spring term.

Requirements:

• Overall GPA of 3.0 or higher
• 12 credits of Psychology (including current term)
• STAT 0200/1000/1100 Statistics
• PSY 0036 Research Methods Lecture
• PSY 0037 Research Methods Lab

Terms offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer terms

Students will connect with Pitt Public Health faculty, staff, and students, and explore our departments and graduate programs. Plus, learn about the admissions process and discover financial aid options.

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Candidates are being considered for a research assistant position to support the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (https://abcdstudy.org/; ABCD) Yale site. The ABCD Study focuses on a cohort of nearly 12,000 participants who were 9 to 10 years old at baseline and are currently being followed for 10 years. Youths and their families provide rich details about their environmental experiences and undergo extensive phenotypic, cognitive, genetic, emotional, health, and neuroimaging assessments. The ABCD Study site at Yale is located within the Department of Psychology (http://psychology.yale.edu/) at Yale University and works with over 600 families per year.

Primary responsibilities include working with adolescents and their caregivers in a research setting; scheduling and communicating with participants; administering assessments and acquiring data (behavioral, questionnaire, MRI, biosamples); managing data; performing administrative duties; and working closely with the broader team and Principal Investigators (Drs. Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Dylan Gee, and BJ Casey). 

Yale University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative-Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, citizenship status, Vietnam era or special disabled veteran’s status, or sexual orientation.

To apply, please email a cover letter, CV or resume, and the names and contact information for three references to Dr. Arielle Baskin-Sommers (arielle.baskin-sommers@yale.edu) and Dr. Dylan Gee (dylan.gee@yale.edu). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

September 5, 2025       Add/drop ends
September 12, 2025     Extended drop ends
September 22, 2025     Grade option (S/NC) deadline
October 24, 2025          Monitored withdrawal deadline
October 27, 2025          Spring term 2026 enrollment begins
December 5, 2025        Last day of classes

Announcements will run bi-weekly throughout the summer.