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Sounds good. Thanks for the reply, Psych_kv!

I have done an independent research project and am getting ready to write it up (and hopefully submit for publication). I received a fellowship to do the research and I am the principle investigator. My professor was listed just as my research advisor, not as a co-investigator. I am feeling some hints coming my from my professor that they want to be listed as a co-author. But my professor has seemed as unsure as I am. Is it usual, as an undergrad, to list the faculty member who advises you as a co-author of the work? It is difficult for me to tell what is customary or normal in this regard at my school because other students doing research with other professors are in more of a typical lab setting (some quite literally), and their work is much more dependent on the faculty in charge of the lab. That is not the situation for me. However, I certainly got guidance from my advisor. Anybody know what the custom is? I hope I don't sound ungracious. I am happy and honored to list him as a co-author. I just don't know if there is a usual protocol.

Nathanielfirst, you may find this site helpful. http://ipip.ori.org/ipip/ There are such scales as Need For Cognition, Fantasy Proneness, Optimism, etc. I don't know if there are scales for the specific things you mention. There are other individual differences measures than what you are referring to as "personality". But most individual differences I know of fall under the personality category. And I was a little unclear about whether you were asking or stating, but there are most definitely scales for motivation "types" and other related constructs such as achievement orientation, etc. I think if you look in a Personality Psychology textbook you will find many kinds of individual differences discussed.

Roebuck1, I looked at your linkedin resume. Great work/internship experience! I never know what is okay to ask others on this forum about their work, but I'm curious if your latest studies on psychological disorder stigma in the workplace are field studies or "lab" (students on campus) studies? It sounds like a very interesting topic!

I concur with Roebuck1. If I were in your shoes, I would frame my statement of purpose to focus on why I want to do I/O and not why I don't want to do counseling. If there is anything in your grad counseling experience or work experience that has lit a fire in you for I/O, focus on that.

ALERT: Straight person's comment, for what it's worth. Considering how conservative Kentucky is, I'd say Louisville is quite a remarkable exception. I find that in my sphere of friends and hang-out spots, there is a wonderfully vibrant gay community. I moved here from San Francisco 12 years ago. Thought I would stay one year and actually have been very comfortable as a liberal straight person. I imagine it must be a very different experience to actually be gay (and have to face discrimination), but the folks in my life who are gay are thriving here. There are gay bars and there is a robust gay social and local music scene. In short, you could do better, but if you got accepted to grad school in Louisville, you could definitely do a lot worse. As for partnering with Southern Indiana for PRIDE, Louisville and Southern Indiana partner for a lot of events. Louisville is a small city surrounded closely by small towns across the river in Indiana. It's a matter of a relatively small population to begin with, not that Louisville relies at all on Southern Indiana for support with gay-friendliness. In fact, just the opposite. Southern Indiana is much more conservative than Louisville.

Go here to learn a bit about I/O psych: http://www.siop.org/ Clemson has a good human factors program (engineering psych). You can read a bit about it here: http://www.clemson.edu/psych/grad/phd-hf/ They also offer a more standard I/O program, so you can check out each of their programs and it might help you compare/contrast them. I have not run across any books on I/O outside of text books. But an old textbook on I/O might give you a decent overview of the kinds of issues I/O's deal with. I have an old textbook by Paul Spector that does a great job of giving a good overview of I/O topics. I will add that I/O as a field deals with a wide range of topics and has traditionally been partitioned into the "I", which covers such topics as selection, training, and job analysis, and the "O" which deals with such topics as motivation, teams, incentives, job satisfactoin and fairness perception. Both I and O draw on personality and social psych as well as business and management theories. I don't know much about human factors as a field.

Yes, TakeruK, this is what I said in an earlier post when I said I do have access to any articles from any journal that my school has through EBSCO (which is the "server", I think, for systems like psychINFO, etc). And, yes, I access that through my school library site. I thought you were saying you just accessed your journals (e.g. Icarus) through the web without going through a host. I have been miscommunicating quite a bit lately. It's me, not you. Also, having the online articles is, qualitatively, not the same to me. I prefer the print journal. I can't afford to personally subscribe to every journal, so I just subscribe to the one most consistently relevant for me.

TakeruK, I do not find the same access for Journal of Applied Psychology that you enjoy for Icarus. I don't know whether psychology journals are more proprietary or if I am just not adept at finding access. I get the impression that journals published by APA are not available online unless one subscribes to the journal (and pays.) I do have access to any articles for any journal that my school has through EBSCO, but that does not include every journal under the sun (see how I cleverly slipped in the astronomical reference? ;-)) I like the idea of a journals club. And an interdisciplinary one within the various fields of psychology would be fantastic! As an I/O, I am often reading articles from other psychology sub-fields. For instance, social and personality psychology greatly inform a lot of work in I/O. As a part-time student, I dream of having enough on-campus time to create a club like this.

Nice to meet you. :-) And yes, one can do that. My school does not get the print versions of that journal, but has the articles through EBSCO. Personally, I prefer to have the whole journal.

For I/O psychology, I regularly look through the SIOP website (SIOP is the professional organization for I/O). Members also receive a monthly small journal which highlights various aspects of the field, but not necessarily research trends. I also subscribe to the Journal of Applied Psychology. APA student members get a significant discount on journal subscriptions. I have heard that conference attendance in your area of interest is also probably a really good idea, if at all possible.

FMTgrad2012, I don't mean to be nosey, but what made you switch to I/O from FMT? I think that's an interesting cross-over!

Thanks, Sdt13. I've heard good things about the Howell text. I only know SPSS so far. I am not sure if my school offers students SAS licenses, but of course I could get R. I have not heard of JMP outside of this forum. This may seem like a lame question, but is it worth it to get familiar with other stats software? I am sure it would make me seem more marketable come grad app time. But are there advantages beyond that?

That's what's great about reading about the statistical techniques in research articles, DarwinAG! I have a plethora of examples of what I don't know yet. ;-) Okay, when I know as much about stats as Michael Zickar, I'll take a breather.

I bought the Andy Field book and have been pretty happy with it so far. It's covering some of the same stuff I already know -- but some of it from a slightly different angle -- and it's filling in some small gaps. And I know it will get to things I haven't learned yet. The frustrating thing about trying to learn on one's own is not knowing really where one stands at any given time. I'm asking around at my school to see if there's a statistics wonk that will advise me through a couple of credit hours of independent study in stats. Sdt13, the third book you list looks like what I've learned already It doesn't start looking foreign to me until Chapter 19 or so. Looks like a good solid text, but ideally you'd have a suggestion for what you would choose after that one?

None of the I/O programs I have been looking into do interviews. I think it's pretty rare for I/O programs. (Maybe because they know that unstructured interviews are lousy predictors of subsequent performance.)

This is such valuable information. As someone who will be applying next year, I am taking to heart the comments in this thread. This site was recommended to me by a grad student last year and I'm so grateful I learned about its existence while I have time to put some great suggestions into action. I hope you all don't stop visiting and posting when you're in grad school next year!

It is too bad your comment was not addressed with a serious and scholarly reply, DarwinAG. From reading the comments in this thread, it is obvious that would have been possible. I am but a newbie in the world of psych academe, but I would not call your comment a faux pas. I'm not even sure if I would consider it ill-worded. As a woman and as a researcher, I find nothing offensive in your statement. On a methodological note -- and what could be a methodological faux pas? -- possibly dropping the women completely would not be the best course. But couldn't one run a separate analysis using the men only, and report both findings? And further, would any variation in cortisol levels in women due to their menstrual cycle be greater than variation caused by other extraneous variables in any sub-group of the sample (the list of other extraneous variables is probably endless -- a biggie might be age, another might be race)? Has that been studied? In other words, is that really an extraneous variable worth taking into account? One way to get an inkling would be to do a separate analysis on just the men. Yeah, as a student I would have been much more interested in sussing out the issues with the methodology than getting hung up on whether someone said something that I could take the wrong way if I was so inclined.

Sorswell, it might be a good idea to start -- if you haven't already -- looking at websites of programs you are interested in applying to. In my experience, they don't often specifically state what kinds of research experience they want applicants to have, but many schools state the general qualifications they are looking for. Have you looked here yet? http://ecp.fiu.edu/APA/div7/ They have a listing of developmental psych programs.

On the websites of all the schools I've looked at, GRE scores are very important as well. Like you, I won't be applying til next December so I am all about focusing on studying for the GRE now. From what I have read and heard, a great GRE score will help you too.

Quant_Liz_Lemon, I will take you up on that! I'm just working out the first draft of mine now. I will pm you when I get it to a point where I need a second set of eyes. And I know it would be very helpful to see yours as well. Thank you!

This thread has been really helpful. I had not started my CV yet, but after taking a look at DarwinAG's I began it. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that, DarwinAG, I am totally borrowing your format. My question is: do I include work awards? I received an award at work for an essay I wrote (company-wide competition; four states, large company), and this year I received an award (also company-wide recognition) for being an exemplar employee and going above-and-beyond in my job. Neither of these have to do with psychology per se, but they do show that I am an achiever at work as well as at school. I work full-time and go to school part-time so I'm not going to have as many academic awards and honors as DarwinAG (though I do have a few!) I see that Quant_Liz_Lemon writes that she has a section for Professional Employment. Should I make a section below that for Professional Awards?

Thanks Cherub and DarwinAG. For practicality's sake, this eases my mind. Time is definitely limited. I'll be happy to learn as much as I can about stats theory in grad school. Just want to make sure I'm not behind the curve going into it. The Andy Field book will get here in time for me to have a week to digest the parts I need before the semester starts. I think it will be a very useful guide for my project. On a side note, DarwinAG, I attended SFSU (as a theatre major) a few years ago. I'm from the Bay Area. Say hi to the ocean for me. Cherub, I don't know what a Cox model is. Yet. And Cherub, thank you for the links!

That is interesting, Cherub. Thanks for your suggestions. SPSS is what I have available at school, so it is probably what I will be sticking with for now. I think we have SAS and R as well, but I am not aware of any performance advantages of these over SPSS (other than R is free). However, I am intrigued that "statistics" is becoming synonymous with whatever software package one uses to perform analyses. I know very little, so forgive my ignorance, but I'd like some clarity on this. How deep is the statistics education in other undergrad programs? Are other schools teaching a lot of theory or just enough to be able to know which statistical test to apply and how to interpret the results? Let me ask it this way: does the Andy Field book go about as deep into the nuts and bolts (math- and theory-wise) as one needs to go? I ordered the Andy Field book, by the way.

Boris, I have the Survival Guide. It's very handy! I've gotten along fine with SPSS thanks to a great intro teacher and the Survival Guide, but I'm hoping to find something that gets more into what I guess you would call the math and theory (blood and guts??) behind the stats. I'll be going into I/O psychololgy and from what I understand (and from the articles I've read) it's pretty stats heavy. The more I can understand what is really going on statistically, the stronger foundation I think I will have.