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Graduate students

Dr. Jara-Ettinger will be accepting a graduate student to begin their doctoral studies in Fall 2026. To ensure and equitable process, I do not meet with prospective students and only read the final applications, but if you're planning to apply to my lab, please still send me a brief email with your cv attached. Applications should be submitted directly to Yale's psychology department and are due on December 1st, 2025. You can find more information about our admissions here.

Undergraduate students

The Computational Social Cognition Lab at Yale University, under the direction of Dr. Julian Jara-Ettinger, is currently hiring research assistants who are interested in developmental psychology research. Research assistants will have the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of the research process, including recruiting participants, running experiments, collecting and entering data, analyzing data, and presenting results.

Requirements:

• Minimum commitment of 6 hours/week
• Must be available for blocks of time during the weekend or weekday to collect data
• Must be comfortable interacting with children 4-10 years of age, as well as parents

We are particularly interested in RAs who can commit for at least two semesters or more.

To apply, please send your resume/CV to Alina Dau at alina.dau@yale.edu.