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Spring Term 2026 RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
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COMPLETED contracts are emailed as a PDF to psycadvising@tamu.edu UPDATED Contracts can be located on our website PBSI 491 Contracts MAKE SURE to review the Work Hours Per Week chart before committing how many Credit Hours you will earn Contracts will NOT be accepted until OPEN REGISTRATION
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Contracts must be submitted BEFORE 4pm on the Last Day of ADD/DROP Week (January 16, 2026)
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All Areas on the Contract(s) Must Be Filled and Must have the Professor's Signature; Contracts will be rejected if information is missing and will delay being added to course
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Area Professor Student Recruitment OpeningsAccepting or FullTopicsTasks RequiredPreferred Contact Method (e.g. person to contact, online application)
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Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience
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**= NRSC Faculty Research LabJames Grau**1 to 3AcceptingLearning; Spinal Cord Plasticity; Recovery after spinal injurywork is conducted using animal subjects (rats). Tasks include surgery, behavioral testing, history, cellular analysis and data entry. We are particularly interested in students seeking careers in medicine and neuroscience. Students must have a strong GPA (>3.5) and SAT, GRE or MCAT scores; because intensive training is required. We seek students who can make at least one-year commitment. j-grau@tamu.edu
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Rachel Smith**2 to 3AcceptingNeuroscience of drug addictionLab work involves behavioral experiments with self-administration in rats, and histology on brain tissue. Due to the technical training needed for these tasks, requirements include: 10 hrs/week, 1-2 year commitment, and a GPA >3.2. Can receive either PSYC or NRSC creditrachelsmithlab.sites.tamu.edu
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Clinical Psychology
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Kristy Cuthbert & Rob Heffer2AcceptingClinical training & Supervision; Justice-Involved Mental HealthStudents will participate in the development of a treatment program for the Brazos County Mental Health Court. They will assist in writing protocols, outlining procedures, and developing/organizing materials for treatment groups. Students will also assist in day-to-day clinic tasks in 4-hour shifts. Students may assist in literature reviews and/or poster presentations. Alternatively, students may propose a data-driven project of their own as a focal point for the year. Selected projects must focus on clinic policy, public policy, justice-involved mental health, or supervision & Training in clinical psychology.Complete Application Form
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AnnMarie MacNamara**15AcceptingEmotion and anxiety in the brainRun neuroscience experiments, in which you will collect EEG and/or fMRI data from human participants.Complete Application Form
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Noni Gaylord-Harden2 to 4AcceptingCommunity violence exposure and trauma in Black adolescents and families; Protective Factors and cultural assets; Contextually and culturally relevant trauma interventions for youth and families exposed to community violence.Attend weekly lab meetings, conduct literature reviews, recruit and track research participants, data collection, data entry and coding, data analysis, assist with developing scientific presentations and preparing manuscripts, assist with developing trauma-informed interventions for Black youth and families.ngaylord@tamu.edu
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Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
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Brian Anderson**12 to 15AcceptingCognitive neuroscience. The lab does behavioral and neuroimaging studies examining how learning influences what people pay attention to.Assist with lab operations, including data collection, management, and analysis. Students will also have the opportunity to attend lab meetings and contribute to discussions of research.Email: brian.anderson@tamu.edu Lab Website: https://andersonlab.sites.tamu.edu/
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Joseph Orr**3 to 4AcceptingCognitive neuroscience of how reward guides decision making. Current studies involve candy.Prefers people available 2 to 3 credits and are available 2 or more semesters. RA's will run behavioral regard tasks, some of which also involve setting up EEG and/or eye tracking. RAs will also assist with literature reviews of cognitive neuroscience journal articles and perform EEG and MRI data quality reviews. Complete Application Form
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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang**10AcceptingCognitive and brain aging in middle-aged adults, current and early life experiences, and risk factors in shaping differential aging trajectories; Healthy vs Pathological (i.e.: Alzheimer's Disease); Methodologies include multimodal neuroimaging, blood biomarkers, and behavioral assessmentsAssist with recruitment, data collection, monitoring, entry, coding, and scoring; Assist with literature review, meta-analysis; Gain an understanding of neuroimaging and other techniques used to cognitive neuroscience researchWebsite Link: https://lifespanhealthneuro.weebly.com/ Complete Application Form
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Takashi Yamauchi**15 to 20AcceptingComputer Game, Brain Computer Interface, Machine Learning and AI, Mental DisordersHelp design, develop, and administer computer game (experiments) that assess mental disorderstakashi-yamauchi@tamu.edu
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Steven Smith**10 to 12AcceptingMemory, Metacognition, and Creative CognitionStudents working in the lab will conduct experimental research on creative cognition (puzzles, memorizing, recalling material). Other duties include learning how to prepare and run experiments, scoring participants' data, and entering results into files, among other behavioral science methods. Experience with AI, Qualtrics, or PsychoPy is a plus. The writing portion involves writing Methods for the experiments; the paper is intended to be read as a journal article. Work closely with our Lab Coordinators. Application Form
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Industrial/Organizational Psychology
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Winfred Arthur Jr.8AcceptingMeta analysis on personality and job performance. Team conflict and communicationManaging data- data entry and security; Preparing study documents and materials; Participating in training activities and meetings; Conducting literature reviews; Data analysisComplete Application Form
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Stephanie Payne5AcceptingSafety climate in a workplace and other I/O topicsAssist with meta-analyses on workplace safety. Read abstracts and method sections for inclusion criteria. Extraqct information from journal articles and enter into spreadsheet. Attend weekly meetings. Contribute to other research projects as needed which may include literature reviews, data cleaning, and categorizing qualitiative data.scp@tamu.edu
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Social and Personality Psychology
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Heather Lench2Accepting Emotion and CognitionWork with students revolving around emotions and contribute to human subject data collection, as well as coding and data entry. (Does ask for at least 2 semester commitment)Emotion Science Lab Application or email: nbhimani@tamu.edu
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Rebecca Schlegel8 to 10 AcceptingSelf & Identity, Existential PsychologyData collection, data management, coding, help with manuscript prep, lab meetings to discuss researchComplete Application Form
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Rebecca Schlegel (Human Computer Interaction of the Lab)4AcceptingSelf & Identity, Motivation, Childhood Education; Focus on how middle and high school students learn and develop in STEM-focused hands-on classes, the impact of telepresence robotics on the educational experiences of instructors in the scenarios.Data collection, data management, coding, manuscript preparation, conducting experiments with human subjects, assist in literature reviewsComplete Application Form
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Brandon Schmeichel20AcceptingSocial psychology, self-control, motivation, emotionConducting experiments with human subjects; data entry and data processingschmeichel@tamu.edu
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 Rachel Smallman6AcceptingSocial cognition, broadly construed. Projects typically focus on counterfactual thinking (and related concepts) in both basic and applied contexts, such as health-related behavior.Running experimental sessions; coding/entering data; participating in discussions about ongoing lab projects;
attend weekly lab meetings
Complete Application Form

rsmallman@tamu.edu

smallmanlab@gmail.com
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