Research Mentor Information
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Primary Research Mentor Name: Jose Martinez
Research Mentor Preferred Pronouns: He/him/his
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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated): jmartinez@psy.fsu.edu
Position Title: Graduate Student
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FSU College (if applicable): Arts and Sciences
FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation: Psychology
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Overall Project Details
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Title of the Project: Motivations underlying responses to unfairness
Project Keywords: Motivation, punishment, restoration, unfairness, group-dynamics
Are you currently looking for research assistants?: No
Number of Research Assistants Needed : 3
Relevant Research Assistant Major(s):
Open to all majors

Project Location:: On FSU Main Campus
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Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s):: In-person
Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work?: 5-10
Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work?: Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Overall Research Project Description:
When you see someone behaving selfishly or unfairly towards others, and you have the power to do something about it, what do you do? Do you punish the wrongdoer? Do you help the victims? Or, do you do a combination of both (punish wrongdoer and help victims)? Many people say they will do both - punish a wrongdoer and help a victim(s) - if and when they have unlimited resources and when responding to the unfairness does not come with a cost. However, the story becomes much more complicated when people (a) have limited resources and (b) when responding to unfairness involves an altruistic component (i.e., responding comes at a cost to the self, typically in the form of resources).
For this project, we will be examining the motivations underlying people's responses to unfair behavior in groups. My own previous work on this topic has suggested that a desire for retribution (giving someone "their just deserts"), social approval, and deterrence are all important motivations that predict whether someone will punish a wrongdoer and/or help a victim, even at a cost to one's own resources. This research project will be a replication and extension of that work by expanding the consideration of motivations predicting punishment/helping behavior, such as punishing/helping in order to show one's "strength" or power, humiliate a wrongdoer, etc. The study will take place in-person in a research lab in the department of psychology.

Research Tasks:
UROP assistants will be involved in all aspects of the research process: literature reviews, data collection with participants, data analysis, etc. In addition, UROP researchers can expect to meet with me as a group on a weekly basis and one-on-one every two weeks. For these meetings, we will have a discussion about goals (mine as a mentor, and yours as a mentee) and the research process more broadly (how to think more deeply about the work we do, how to formulate research questions, how to design studies, etc).

Skills that research assistant(s) may need::
No skills necessary. Any experience you have with data analytic techniques and/or lab research is definitely a plus, but not necessary for this project.

Mentoring Philosophy:
Research is exciting. However, it can also be intimidating at times. As a mentor, my goal is to get you to a place where you can (a) continue to find research exciting, (b) be able to feel unintimidated by the research process, and (c) gain the skills necessary to be a conscientious researcher and consumer of information.
One thing I've learned as a mentor to UROP and non-UROP undergraduate research assistants is that mentorship styles are not a one-size-fits-all. If mentorship styles were put on a scale from 1 (we'll email once a month) to 7 (in constant contact with you), some mentees may benefit from a 2 and others may benefit from a 6. Therefore, one of my goals in the early stages of working together will be to understand your goals and see what kind of mentorship style will work for us.

Please provide a link to your publications, a video clip, or a website for your research project (if applicable):: https://sites.google.com/view/joseleonmartinez/home
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Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions at jmartinez@psy.fsu.edu


Roundtable times and Zoom links:
Tuesday, September 5th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm and Wednesday, September 6th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm
NOTE: Zoom issues on September 5th, 5:30-6pm session. Updated zoom link is here: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/7877038068 

UROP Program Elements
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Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication: Yes
UROP Performance Evaluation: Yes
Materials Grant: Yes
UROP Poster Presentation: Yes
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Are you interested in attending in a UROP Research Mentor Workshop Series?: No
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Year: 2023
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