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Get Involved in the CoPE Lab!

Interested in becoming a research assistant or graduate student? Learn more information here.

Research Assistant

What is a research assistant?

A research assistant is usually an undergraduate student at UNCG or an individual with a bachelor's degree who is looking to gain more experience before applying to graduate school. A research assistant may volunteer their time to the lab or earn course credit at UNCG (through the PSY 433 course) for their work in the lab. In order to receive course credit, an assistant must commit to nine weekly lab hours, including an hour for weekly lab meetings.

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What kind of experience would I gain?

In the CoPE Lab, our research assistants have the opportunity to gain a wide variety of experiences and to learn what it means to conduct research in the field of psychology. Our lab members review and discuss journal articles once per week, as well as assist in the lab's current studies and conduct individual research projects. Our research assistants gain skills such as data entry, questionnaire coding, creating surveys, working with participants, collecting psychophysiology data, designing and conducting ecological momentary assessment studies, and much more.

How do I become a research assistant in the CoPE Lab?

If you are interested in becoming a research assistant, please email Dr. Wisco to see if there are any spots available.  

Graduate Student

Is Dr. Wisco looking for new graduate students?

Dr. Wisco will be accepting clinical psychology doctoral applicants for the 2026-2027 academic year. Students with a primary interest in PTSD would be a good fit with the lab. The incoming student would have opportunities to get involved in projects using ambulatory assessment methods to measure reactivity to trauma cues and emotion regulation strategy use in the daily lives of individuals diagnosed with PTSD and trauma-exposed controls. We also have several high quality datasets available for secondary analyses, and have active collaborations both within UNCG and with researchers at other institutions. Training is available in experimental psychopathology, ecological momentary assessment, and in acquisition and analysis of peripheral psychophysiology including heart rate variability, impedance cardiography, and skin conductance. Ongoing data collections focus on mixed-trauma civilian populations, but there are opportunities to conduct secondary analyses of datasets involving military veterans. Dr. Wisco describes her mentoring style as a "junior colleague" model, encouraging graduate students to develop their own lines of programmatic research with her guidance and support. Students from groups historically underrepresented in academia are especially encouraged to apply.

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