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Research Assistant
August 10, 1995

About Candidate

I’ve worked with professors of legal and social psychology to delve, test, and conduct literature review on a range of topics (deception, witness testimony, police interactions, social relationships, sexuality, etc.). I’m comfortable working with statistical software such as SPSS and AMOS, and have a basic understanding of the coding language R.

Nationality
USA
Looking for Job Title
Research Assistant

Location

Education

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Master of Art in Psychology Spring 2026 (expected may, course work already completed)
California State University, Los Angeles

I studied research psychology under the mentorship of Dr. Pamela Regan, with a focus on interpersonal relationships and human sexuality. I've taken courses in advanced and multivariate statistics. I'm currently in my last semester, where my "class" is working on my thesis, which is a literature review on the history, prevalence, and correlates of Asexuality. My GPA is 3.9.

Work & Experience

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Graduate Psychological Lab Assistant 01/22 - Current
California State University, Los Angeles

• Researching and reviewing psychological articles. • Writing and editing large amounts of text for a literature review thesis. • Collaborating with multiple university faculty and professors on a range of different research projects. • Creating charts and figures on a range of topics. • Running participants through trials involving deception and coordination between the research team, actors, campus security, and LA police.

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Undergraduate Psychological Lab Assistant 08/21 - 05/24
California State University, Fullerton

• Reviewed and conducted literature reviews for research projects within the lab. • Created lab proposals for IRB. • Designed and conducted psychological experiments. • Received mentorship advice from the resident professor. • Performed coding on an experiment involving the public's view on police presence. • Worked on the development of new hypotheses for research papers • Reviewed colleagues' work for formatting and grammatical errors.

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Administrator 04/24 - 08/24
Brightal Dental Group

• Provided technical support for software and hardware issues on both computers and dental equipment. • Taught employees how to operate new software • Managed insurance contracts and negotiations • Managed the business's hiring, firing, and code enforcement.

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Administrative Assistant 08/14 - 07/21
, Anaheim Hills Dental Arts

• Answering questions and helping fulfill the requests of patients. • Scheduling patients and organizing the doctors' schedules. • Formatting, preparing, and submitting insurance claims. • Recruiting new insurance companies and maintaining the contracts of existing ones for the office. • Cleaning, sanitizing, and organizing office space. • Filling patient charts and handling the organization of medical documents. • Updating a roster of computer software, the company's website, and giving recommendations concerning the company's computer hardware.

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Behavioral Technician, 01/24 - 05/24
Boys and Girls Club of Garden Grove

• Leadership Role: Guided and educated staff in two after-school programs in behavioral psychology. • Provided behavioral therapy to children on the autistic spectrum, ADHD, Anger Management issues, and other learning difficulties • Designed and structured after-school program activities to manage student behavior.

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Registered Behavior Technician/Parent Coach 02/22 - 02/23
Building Block Resolutions

• Provided behavioral therapy to children on the autistic spectrum, ADHD, Anger Management issues and other learning difficulties. • Assisted special needs classrooms. • Coached parents in applied behavioral approach methods and assisting them in the care of their children. • Created detailed records regarding patient and parent interactions, including the graphing and interpretation of data for the creation of new programs involving clients. • Kept up to date with modern techniques with personal research, coursework, and lectures, • Received ProACT and PCMA certifications for de-escalation techniques, safety holds, crisis management, and restraints • Scheduled parent and supervisor meetings. • Created learning sessions with PowerPoint.

Skills

SPSS
AMOS
Survey and Experiment Design
Literature Review and Synthesis
Data Management
Human Subject Research