2 answers
Ray
Student
Manalapan Township, NJ
19
Questions
Updated
684 views
What do you wish you knew before you started to pursue an education or a career in research psychology?
#research #psychology #research-psychology
Login to comment
2 answers
Tyler Henderson
Undergraduate Psychology student
2
Answers
Nashville, Tennessee
Updated
Tyler’s Answer
I wish I knew the following aspects of each criteria following the research. For starters, I didn’t know by taking research methods, I would have to engage in writing papers which focused on applying research.
Jennifer Blush
Assistant Professor
3
Answers
Raleigh, North Carolina
Updated
Jennifer’s Answer
I wish I had known a couple things.
1. Depending on the area that you study, data collection can take years. I'm in psycholinguistics, and stimuli development and data collection is a long process. Then there's more time on top of that before it's published.
2. Your mentor in graduate school is hugely important. If you have a really productive mentor that puts out a lot of publications, this can help you jump start your own career (assuming you are an author on those papers). Starting a research focused career in academia is extremely tough if you don't have many publications by the time that you graduate.
3. If you want to focus on research during your graduate student career, you need to pick programs and mentors that will allow you do that. If your mentor has a grant that can fund your stipend, you're going to get paid for conducting research, which will hopefully lead to more publications. Also the course load of the program can affect this as well. Look at the time table for when you should have your courses completed. If this is longer than 3 years, it's going to be really tough to conduct much research when your time is taken up by courses.
1. Depending on the area that you study, data collection can take years. I'm in psycholinguistics, and stimuli development and data collection is a long process. Then there's more time on top of that before it's published.
2. Your mentor in graduate school is hugely important. If you have a really productive mentor that puts out a lot of publications, this can help you jump start your own career (assuming you are an author on those papers). Starting a research focused career in academia is extremely tough if you don't have many publications by the time that you graduate.
3. If you want to focus on research during your graduate student career, you need to pick programs and mentors that will allow you do that. If your mentor has a grant that can fund your stipend, you're going to get paid for conducting research, which will hopefully lead to more publications. Also the course load of the program can affect this as well. Look at the time table for when you should have your courses completed. If this is longer than 3 years, it's going to be really tough to conduct much research when your time is taken up by courses.