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Fall 2026

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Fairness Preferences and Deliberation Processes

Drew Jacoby-Senghor, Professor  
Business, Haas School  

Open. Apprentices needed for the fall semester. Enter your application online beginning August 21st. The deadline to apply is Monday, August 31st, 4pm.

Some topics under investigation:
- What if fairness? Is fairness "equality" or "deservingness"?
- Do people have different heuristics for allocating resources fairly?
- How do deliberative processes shift individuals' preferences for fairness-as-equality to fairness-as-deservingness?

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/Python or coding is preferred but not required.

Experience with HTML or web app creation is desired but not essential (please elaborate on experience in app).

Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Nick Zambrotta, Graduate Student

Hours: 9-11 hrs

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

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