Graduate Study

I'm enthusiastic about mentoring students in just about any aspects of the executive regulation of attention, thought, and behavior, but especially in questions and problems around mind-wandering and individual differences.

My lab group meets all together once per week, but I also encourage regularly scheduled meetings with individual grad students, especially early on in the program. Spontaneous "pop-in" meetings are also welcome.

Here are some characteristics of ideal graduate candidates. Particular strengths in one area may outweigh weaknesses in another:

• You will have read some of our articles and have general ideas about research questions or problems you'd be most interesting in pursuing, whether or not they directly follow-up on some aspect of our prior work.

• You will have performed well in previous statistics and research methods courses, and you will be enthusiastic about pursuing more statistics and methods coursework in grad school, as well as learning more quantitative and programming skills in the lab.

• You will have conducted an honors thesis or an equivalent research project on a cognitive psychology topic (the closer to our lab topics the better), where you had some ownership over the questions, methods, data analyses, and/or write-up of the work.

• You are interested in open scientific practices, such as making study materials and data freely available to other researchers, and improving how science is done (including that from our lab!).

• You are interested in working in a collaborative, rather than competitive, lab environment.

• You can work independently but are also comfortable asking for help (from me or your classmates/labmates) when you need it.