Psychology Research Expert
We're hiring psychology researchers as contractors to author and grade the behavioral science scenarios those evaluations run on.
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
This is our social science listing, and every psychology specialty is welcome.
No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
Why Apply
- Work stays in your specialty, judged on methodological judgment rather than output volume.
- Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week.
- Weekly pay via Stripe at a rate set from your experience.
- Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI handles human behavior.
Responsibilities
- Author realistic behavioral science scenarios from study design through interpretation, the kind a working researcher actually reasons through.
- Write reference answers with the methodological reasoning behind each conclusion, constructs, confounds, and effect sizes weighed.
- Grade model output for construct validity, inference quality, and replication awareness.
- Flag claims that read plausible but overstate what the evidence supports, the misses only a trained researcher would catch.
- Author realistic behavioral science scenarios from study design through interpretation.
- Write reference answers with the methodological reasoning behind each conclusion.
- Grade model output for construct validity, inference quality, and replication awareness.
- Flag claims that read plausible but overstate what the evidence supports.
Required skills
- Working command of study design, measurement, and statistical inference.
Preferred skills
- PhD and peer reviewed publications.
- Cognitive, social, clinical, or industrial organizational specialty depth.
- UX research or applied behavioral science industry experience.
Experience and education
- Psychology researchers with an advanced degree in psychology or a closely related behavioral science.
- Academics, UX researchers, and applied behavioral scientists with at least two years of human subjects or behavioral data research.
- Researchers who reason from methods and evidence, and know what the replication crisis taught the field.
- People with strong written English who can turn methodological judgment into clear, teachable reasoning.
- Advanced degree in psychology or a closely related behavioral science.
- 2+ years of research experience with human subjects or behavioral data.
Language requirements
- Clear written English for documenting behavioral reasoning.
Assessment requirements
Apply at /apply/psychology-research-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.
Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.
Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.
Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.
Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.
Schedule details
Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours.
Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.
Time Commitment: 10 hours/week.
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: Ongoing.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Compensation details
- $60 - $120/hr.
- $60 to $120/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
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