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Spring 2025

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What causes inequality and poverty to persist?

Drew Jacoby-Senghor, Professor  
Business, Haas School  

Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.

We explore how motivated and cognitive biases lead people to support inequality, even when it's not in their best interest to do so.

Role: Students will act as research assistants, which include tasks such as running experiments, data management, stimuli creation, survey creation, and other tasks involved in the production and publication of experimental social science research. Students will meet with grad students and attend weekly lab meetings, which will be held in conjunction with PhD students and other research assistants.

Qualifications: Looking especially for students interested in graduate school in Social Psychology, Management, and Organizational Behavior or a career in behavioral research.

Experience with SPSS/R or coding is preferred but not required.

Hours: 9-11 hrs

Related website: http://www.drewjacobysenghor.com/lab

 Social Sciences   Education, Cognition & Psychology   Digital Humanities and Data Science

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