Undergraduates:
Honours Thesis
If you are interested in applying to be an honours thesis student, please refer to the PSYC 501 Application Guide.
Directed Lab
The 570/575 course is a commitment of 10 hours a week with ~ 7 of those hours spent recruiting and running participants in our studies and assisting with data coding. The remaining hours are for lab readings and meetings.
We have positions available for the upcoming school year.
Volunteer
For volunteers, we expect a minimum 5 hour per week commitment recruiting and running participants in our studies and assisting with data coding.
We have positions available for the upcoming school year.
Prospective Graduate Students:
The MaSC Lab focuses primarily on two individual difference variables, causal uncertainty and dysphoria, as motivators of social behavior, judgments, and information processing. We also do some work on self-processes (e.g., self-control, self-esteem importance) and are embarking on research in basic methodology. Indeed, many of our lab and individual meetings are dedicated to learning about advanced statistical techniques and issues relevant to the crisis in science that are not covered in graduate coursework.
We prefer students who:
- have ambitions to become academic researchers
- enjoy designing studies, collecting data, and writing
- are truly interested in investigating the topics that we study in our lab. To learn more about these topics, please see the lab Research page and Dr. Jacobson’s Department of Psychology faculty page.
Dr. Jacobson will be recruiting new graduate students in the social-personality program for the Fall of 2026; for further information, please email her at jill.jacobson@queensu.ca.