The Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab (PI: Jamil Zaki) invites applications for a full-time RA position to begin in Summer of 2025. 

This position is ideal for highly motivated college graduates considering graduate school in  psychology or neuroscience. Research assistants in our group work closely with Prof.  Zaki, as well as postdocs and graduate students, on collaborative projects, and gain deep and  varied research experience. 

Our lab is fascinated by how people connect with each other. We study empathy, prosocial  behavior, emotion regulation, and other related phenomena, using a range of methods including  brain imaging, social network analysis, and behavioral experiments. Please see  ssnl.stanford.edu/research for more on our work, and our lab manual to learn more about our  culture. 

These individuals will contribute to a large, collaborative project combining social network  analysis with psychological and brain-based measures of well-being and emotion (the Stanford  Communities Project). They will also contribute to lab infrastructure and organization, as well as  lab culture. As such, exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills are required. Previous  experiences conducting independent research, neuroimaging, social network analysis, and programming in R and / or Python are ideal, though not required.