Psychological Researcher
Filled with curiosity, Psychological Researchers conduct experiments to explore how humans and animals react, think, learn, and react to different scenarios. They are determined to work on a cause and have remarkable resilience.
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KEY SKILLS
Resillience
Motivated to work on your cause
Interest in the topic
Data analysis
Test result interpretation
Excellent communication skills
Excellent writing skills
Math and statistical skills
Computer literacy especially in programmes such as SPSS
Curiosity
PROS
Longitudinal/ Cross cultural research provides opportunities for travel all over the world
Research exposes you to people from diverse backgrounds and various cultures
Freedom to conduct research in areas of interest
If you are able to secure thrid party funding, you have the freedom to be your own boss
Opportunity to learn something new everyday
Skills are extremley transferrable
CONS
Education takes many years and is expensive
Reserach usually takes 2-3 years with a low job security
Difficult to break into the field- extremely competitive
Research must be extraordinary to secure funding
OPPORTUNITY TYPES
GOT WHAT IT TAKES?
Private Companies
Colleges/ Universities
Research Centres
Governement/ Military
Academia
Research Assisstant on an existing research project
Have an analytical mind
Are determined to find out the cause of each problem
Are willing to work with people or in a laboratory setting
Are a skeptic
KEY OPPORTUNITIES
Books
Podcasts
Networking Groups
Interesting Facts about the career
You have more in common with a typical pigeon than you might realize-In some of the most important research ever done on the nature of behavior, across a storied career, B. F. Skinner (1953) made the case that the processes that underlie learning, such as operant and classical conditioning, are remarkably similar across species of animals — from dogs to goldfish to pigeons to rats to humans.
Elizabeth Loftus proving eye witness testimony isn't as reliable as we thought- Study Conducted in 1974 at The University of California in Irvine Loftus and Palmer set out to prove just how deceiving memories can be. The 1974 Car Crash Experiment was designed to evaluate whether wording questions a certain way could influence a participant’s recall by twisting their memories of a specific event.
Philip Zimbardo's famous study on how power affects us and our behaviour- The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a social psychology experiment that attempted to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison officers. It was conducted at Stanford University on the days of August 14–20, 1971 by a research group led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo using college students. In the study, volunteers were assigned to be either "guards" or "prisoners" by the flip of a coin, in a mock prison, with Zimbardo himself serving as the superintendent. Several "prisoners" left mid-experiment, and the whole experiment was abandoned after six days.