Politics Research in Experimental Social Science

Sept. 15, 2015

Princeton University Department of Politics – Politics Research in Experimental Social Science (PRESS)

The Politics Department’s experimental working group, PRESS, led by Professors Stephens, Valenzuela, and Wasow, announces its Fall 2015 Experiments Workshops which are open to Princeton faculty, research fellows, graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences at Princeton.

PRESS will hold the faculty-led EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP, which will meet once per month during the fall semester on the following dates:

  • October 7

  • November 10

  • December 1

Sessions will consist of students and/or faculty presenting research designs-in-progress with the goal of receiving constructive feedback on research designs before data have been collected.

If you would like to present a research design at the workshop, and are a member of the social sciences at Princeton, please email Andrew Proctor ([email protected]) with a short description of the project and preferred month for your presentation.

Note: We always announce new PRESS activities to the faculty, graduate and undergraduate student listserves before switching to the PRESS-specific listserv for subsequent information, schedules, etc. If you would like to receive these additional emails you must subscribe to the PRESS listserv.

To subscribe to the PRESS listserv, please take the following steps:

  1. Address an email to [email protected]. Make sure to leave all other lines blank and that there are no subject or header lines.

  2. In the body of the email, type: Subscribe ppress

  3. Make sure not to put a signature or any other text in the body

  4. Send the email.

 

PRESS also announces the AY2015-2016 skill-building seminars, which are open to faculty, research fellows, graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences at Princeton.

PRESS will hold the skill-building seminars, which will meet twice per month on Mondays (with some exceptions) during both semesters from 3-4:20pm.

The skill-building seminars cover topics related to the implementation of lab, field, and survey experiments. These seminars will consist of lecture presentations with some hands-on experiences to help train attendees in various aspects of experimental design, methods and implementation. Example topics include IRB training, application and approval processes; Qualtrics, MTurk, and SurveyToGo programming; sampling and subject recruitment processes; other topics TBD. If you have topic suggestions for these seminars, or you have some expertise in methods of experimentation that you can share with the Princeton community, please email Andrew Proctor ([email protected]) or Tanika Raychaudhuri ([email protected]).