What's "research psychology", btw? Is it "I do research in psychology" or is it "psychology of researchers"? My googles did not yield useful information.
Research Psychology is, uhm Research Psychology. As opposed to Clinical Psychology. I studied people (behaving online, FWIW), I didn't treat them. Wrote academic papers rather than listening to people.
I've tried many times :) But the main reason I've left academia after my master's is that I realized I liked developing the code to run the experiment much, much more than facing my writer's block.