Undergraduates:
Honours Thesis
We no longer have positions avaliable for Fall 2025. If you are interested in applying to be an honours thesis student for the 2026-2027 academic year, 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 no longer have positions available for Fall 2025.
We will begin recruiting 570/575 students for Winter 2026 starting in November 2025.
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 no longer have positions available for Fall 2025.
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:
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have ambitions to become academic researchers
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enjoy designing studies, collecting data, and writing
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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.