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Research Assistant
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Position Number: 2418534
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Science - Computer Science

Research Assistant

About Northeastern:
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locationsin Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahantare nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of on-campus and online formatslead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:
The Research Assistant will be involved in all aspects of a research study on misinformation under the direction of Dr. Briony Swire-Thompson. The overarching goal of this study is to measure the prevalence of misinformation on social media and understand the mechanisms that underlies its spread. The project will investigate why people share misinformation online, and how these motivations change over the lifespan. It will also investigate how people make assessments of trust and source credibility, how people update their beliefs when misinformation is corrected, and the psychological mechanisms of this belief updating.

This is a one-year term position through July 2022, with the option of a second year. The position could provide an excellent training opportunity for graduate school programs.

Responsibilities:

Assist with data collection (for example, recruiting participants online)
Data analysis
Literature reviews and write-up of misinformation experiments

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in psychology, computer science, or related field and interest in making a career in such a field is required. The candidate must be conscientious, with excellent people skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
Previous research experience preferred. Technical skills such as knowledge of statistical methods and programming are also a plus.

Salary Grade:
9

Additional Information:
Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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