Front Matter
Preamble
How to use this handbook
Attributions
Major Attributions
License
Colophon
I Introductions
1
Who R we?
1.1
Investigators
1.1.1
Principal Investigator
1.1.2
Affiliated Principal Investigator
1.2
Current Students
1.2.1
Graduate Students
1.2.2
Undergraduate Students
1.2.3
Sidekicks
1.3
Prior Members
1.3.1
Undergraduate Students
II Being in the lab
2
Being in the lab
2.1
Everyone
2.1.1
You won’t know everything
2.1.2
Work-Life Balance
2.2
Mason
2.3
Graduate Students
2.4
Undergraduate Students
2.4.1
Honors Students
2.4.2
Independent study
2.5
University Policies
2.5.1
Employee guidelines
2.5.2
Sexual harassment
3
Communication
3.1
Communication within the lab
3.1.1
My doors
3.1.2
Ways to get ahold of Mason
3.1.3
Lab Meetings
3.1.4
Wiki
3.1.5
Email
3.1.6
Calendars
3.2
Communication outside the lab
3.2.1
Social Media
3.2.2
Presentations
3.2.3
Manuscripts
3.3
Conferences
3.3.1
ARP
3.3.2
BGA
3.3.3
Dev Methods
3.3.4
ISIR
3.3.5
SMEP
3.3.6
SPSP
3.3.7
SSSP
3.3.8
Abbreviation
4
Science
4.1
Big picture science
4.1.1
Scientific integrity
4.1.2
Open, accurate, and reproducible science
4.2
Practical science
4.2.1
Writing
4.2.2
Computers and data
4.2.3
Authorship
III Lab Documents
5
Lab Documents and Resources
5.1
Course Materials
5.1.1
Data Science for Psychologists
5.1.2
Behavior Genetics
6
Onboarding
6.1
Things You’ll Need
6.2
Github
6.3
Google Group
6.4
R
7
Data
7.1
Sources in general
7.1.1
Publicly Available Data
7.1.2
Limited Access Data
7.2
Genetically Informed Data
IV Projects
8
Active Projects
9
Showcase
V Wake Forest Timelines
10
Graduate Students
10.1
General Timeline
10.1.1
Year 1
10.1.2
Year 2
10.1.3
Graduation Requirement Checklist
11
Undergraduate Student
11.1
Psychology Resources
VI Style Guides
12
APA
12.1
Bias-Free Language
12.2
Inclusive Writing
13
Useful Copy-editing Resources
13.1
Software and Widgets
14
R Style Guide
14.1
NLSY Variable Names
14.1.1
Armed Services Vocational Apptitude Battery
VII Useful Things
15
Software
15.1
R & Rstudio
15.1.1
Base R
15.1.2
R studio
15.1.3
R Code
16
Browsers/Internet
16.1
Google
16.1.1
Search Operators
16.2
Javascript Bookmarklets
16.2.1
WFU Related
16.2.2
Google Related
16.2.3
Google Translate
16.2.4
Not Otherwise Specified
16.3
Userscripts
17
Remote Access
17.1
Steps
17.2
Troubleshooting
VIII Professional Development
18
Future Directions!
19
Graduate School Admissions Advice
19.1
Motivation
19.2
General Advice
19.2.1
Should you go?
19.3
Application
19.3.1
Personal Statements
19.3.2
Resumes and CVs
19.3.3
Recommendation Letters
19.3.4
Contacting Professors
19.3.5
My Materials
19.4
Interviews
19.4.1
Motivations
19.4.2
The Program/Institution
19.4.3
Previous Research
19.4.4
Current/Future Research
19.4.5
If you have a specific project in mind…
19.4.6
Teaching
19.4.7
Questions for you to ask current grad students
19.4.8
Questions for you to to ask potential PI’s
19.4.9
Questions for you to ask other interviewers
19.5
Field Specific Things
19.5.1
Clinical Psychology
19.5.2
Individual Differences (Personality, Intelligence, etc)
19.5.3
Social Psychology
19.5.4
Quantitative Psychology
19.6
Bonus Stuff
19.6.1
Funded Terminal Master’s Programs (Incomplete List)
19.7
Subreddits
19.8
Grad Cafe
20
Sources of Funding
20.1
Internal Wake Forest
20.2
External
20.2.1
General Advise
20.2.2
International Alliance for Ability in Science
20.3
Behavior Genetics Association
20.4
Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP)
21
Sample Materials
21.1
NSFGRFP
22
Career Resources
22.1
Motivation
22.2
Academic Jobs
22.2.1
General Advice
22.2.2
Materials
22.2.3
Interviews
22.2.4
Negotiating
22.3
Industry
22.4
Finding Jobs
22.4.1
Academic
22.4.2
Industry
22.5
Random Wisdom
IX Back Matter
References
License: CC-BY-SA
Lab Handbook
8
Active Projects
For the most current list… navigate to the lab github….
https://github.com/R-Computing-Lab