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Amy Zhang, Week 3

During the past week, many people in my lab were preparing for their presentations and posters on their projects. At the end of the week, all students that participated in VIP, a summer research program for psychology majors at Duke, presented their projects to their PIs, peers, and parents. It was intriguing to hear about a variety of topics even though they are all psychology-related. Among the different projects, one that left a deep impression on me was a project about how the race of students’ roommates would affect their willingness to think about questions related to diversity. While I finished working on my first project, I started working on my other projects. For the one that I work with Vivian, a Senior Theses Student at Tomasello Lab, we’ll be learning about whether young children perceive the rules made by themselves and those they make with others differently. Since this project just started, we had to see if the designed experiment would actually work. The ...