The first month of my time at the WEB lab was spent exploring and reviewing primary and secondary literature on various topics in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Once I gained a decent understanding of the field, I assisted a PhD student with their dissertation research. I quickly picked up Qualtrics and began creating multiple surveys, utilizing skip logic, display logic, and heatmapping. Additionally, I began using a mix of Microsoft Paint and Adobe Photoshop to manipulate items on different Facebook profiles. Participants would be asked to judge the profile owner's hireability and ethicality. As such, the project required me to edit over 1,500 images and create over 2,000 survey items within Qualtrics. Near the end of my time at the WEB lab, I was tasked with learning how to use eye-tracking software for a research setting. Unfortunately, around the same time, I began my graduate studies at Texas Woman's University and had to leave the WEB lab.

Prior to joining the WEB lab, my research skills were limited to my undergraduate coursework. I had plenty of knowledge in psychological concepts and theory, but I gained a thorough understanding of the research process and survey design while I was a research assistant. In addition, I was able to collaborate with many different professors, graduate students, undergraduate students, and even high schoolers and was able to contribute to the research project. From here, I would go complete my thesis, which was partially inspired by my time spent at the WEB lab.