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Dor Abrahamson - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We present an innovative educational design for basic arithmetic that responds to students’ documented difficulties with adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers. The design utilizes MOVES, a technological architecture that combines floor- and screen-projected interactive interfaces. Students enact arithmetic operations, e.g., “3 - (-2)” by walking along a projected...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Apprentices are needed to work on a project related to power and risk-taking. Students will participate in a major meta-analysis project in which the effect of power on risk-taking is tested. Students will be responsible for reviewing relevant academic papers and their findings to be included in...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Please write Project 2: Social Psychology and Business Lab at the top of your application if you are interested in applying to our lab. We are seeking to recruit 2-3 new Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
PLEASE SPECIFY in your application if you are interested in working on this project by mentioning the project title*** We are seeking to recruit a couple of Research Apprentices who are interested in finding out more about social psychology and business research to join our research lab. Our goal is...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyCameron Anderson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Apprentices are needed to work on projects related to perceptions of competence and social status. Students will conduct a major new lab experiment in which participants are videotaped conducting a consulting case interview. Students may be trained as interviewers, or manage lab logistics. Students will examine perceptions of competence and...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: In 2016, voters in the state of California passed Assembly Bill (AB) 2016 which now requires an ethnic studies curriculum for grades 7-12. In a state where the Latinx student population is 3,284,788 or 56.1% of all students in the state, the new ethnic studies requirement invites a deeper...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesPatricia Baquedano-Lopez - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Background: Mam is one of the Mayan languages whose ancestral community spans southern Mexico and western Guatemala. According to the Censo Nacional de Poblacion y VII de Vivienda (2018), there are 842, 252 Mam speakers living in Guatemala, with the largest communities in Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Quetzaltenango. This project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Arts & HumanitiesJeff Belkora - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS “This apprenticeship has been the highlight of my time at Berkeley. It has given me a chance to help patients in difficult medical situations, and as a pre-health undergraduate, this is important to me.” “It is a great opportunity to get clinical experience and work with like...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Education, Cognition & PsychologySonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
General to all projects listed: Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people with different psychiatric disorders (such...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
General to all projects: Computational models have been a powerful tool for studying decision-making in both psychology and neuroscience. They have recently become popular in psychiatry as well. Part of the appeal has been that computational approaches delineate individual differences in decision-making that can explain why people with...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesSonia Bishop - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
In this project, we are using multi-feature encoding models to analyse functional magnetic resonance imaging data collected when participants look at naturalistic examples of emotional faces. The goal is to better understand how tuning to facial information (expression, gender, age etc) varies across the cortical surface of the human...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesTolani Britton - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Given the limited work opportunities available to persons who have been incarcerated, a college degree could serve as one means to improve both educational and job market outcomes. A number of states have expanded access to college classes for incarcerated persons. In 2014, California passed SB 1391, a law that...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system works in people with normal vision, as well as in people with uncorrectable sub-normal vision (visual impairment). Uncorrectable sub-normal vision can occur as a result of an eye disease (e.g. macular degeneration, the leading cause of...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system responds to the onset of vision loss as a result of eye diseases. By understanding how the visual system responds to vision loss, our ultimate goal is to develop effective rehabilitative strategies to help people with vision loss...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The research project focuses on the understanding of how the visual system recognizes faces and other objects in normally sighted people and people with low vision. Psychophysical methods, retinal imaging and functional brain imaging will be used to answer the research question...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySusana Chung - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Loss of vision in the central visual field brings about dramatic changes to everyday activities (e.g. reading, identifying objects). This research project focuses on identifying how the informative features of objects contribute to overall visual function, with the clinical goal of visual performance improvement by enhancing selected parts of objects...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Over the course of millions of years, the human brain has been intricately shaped by the process of evolution, transforming it into an unparalleled learning system capable of adeptly navigating complex and ever-changing natural environments. While its remarkable learning abilities surpass those of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, the...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Habits are inflexible patterns of behavior that have become deeply ingrained through repetition. When it comes to situations we are likely to encounter often, habitual control can be effective and efficient. When passing by the Campanile en route to class, you might turn left automatically, and eventually arrive at your...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
From founding a startup to climbing the tallest peaks, people set a wide range of objectives for themselves. How do people decide which goals to set? How do they manage progress towards different – and perhaps competing – objectives? The proposed research plans to investigate goal setting in a range of naturalistic...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Navigating complex natural environments presents a robust challenge to even the most advanced artificial systems, yet humans can often handle these same challenges effortlessly. What algorithms underly these human capabilities to learn and generalize so efficiently? My research investigates the learning algorithms implemented by the human brain to efficiently act...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyClayton Critcher - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In my lab, we work on a variety of topics at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision making, and consumer behavior. Almost all questions are addressed with the use of behavioral experiments. At present, we are answering questions like the following: *Would you as an entrepreneur rather seek...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In the UC DREAMS Lab, directed by Professor Eason, we research how our social and cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior, and reinforce inequality. Our social, cultural, and developmental psychology lab is hiring research assistants to help with several projects this semester. Across projects, we investigate prejudice, attitudes, stereotyping, discrimination...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesJan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
How do children reason? How strongly is reasoning embedded in social, cognitive processes? The goal of this project is to investigate how children’s tendencies for reasoning and cooperation inform one another. We aim to understand how the interplay of these processes develops, from early childhood into middle childhood. The subset...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesEllen Evers - Professor, Marketing
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab's research combines cognitive/social psychology, behavioral economics, and judgment and decision making research. Most of our research involves carrying out online or in-person experiments designed to test a hypothesis about human decision-making. Accepted students will work on a variety of projects within this area. Examples of...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyBruce Fuller - Professor, Education
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the role of Black Foundations in K-12 public education in the United States. We seek to track how Black foundations are directing grant dollars to education initiatives and analyze grantmaking practices by building an original dataset of grant awards. The research apprentice will play a key...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAlison Gopnik - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
How does empowerment affect preschool aged children’s exploration and casual learning? All applicants must fill out the URAP application both on this portal and via the Google Form: https://forms.gle/Y51rrytNsC2wGNew6...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project seeks undergraduates that are interested in learning about how to design learning environments that center equity, sustainability, and the radical transformation of systems of inequality that emerge in educational contexts. Specifically, undergraduates will engage readings, data, and collaborate with other undergraduates and graduate students to develop analyses for...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The anti-testing opt-out movement is a grassroots movement in which parents/guardians choose not to have their children participate in their school’s statewide testing. This research is a social media ethnography in which we critically examine the discourse used in posts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit to...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Writing Data Stories is a new project that seeks to reorganize how young people, especially linguistically and ethnoracially minoritized students, learn about and interact with data. A partnership including Bay Area schools, UC Berkeley, the Concord Consortium, North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin, the project...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKris Gutierrez - Professor, Education
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This research project originated from a longstanding relationship between the Pinoleville Pomo Nation from Northern California and an interdisciplinary research group from UC Berkeley. After conversations with the Tribal Council and researchers’ participation in tribal gatherings, issues around well-being, and education were identified as areas of common interest. One...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of the Evaluation of a Habit-based Sleep Health Intervention study is too evaluate if the Habit-based Sleep Health Intervention (‘HABITs’)—a novel low-cost approach derived by leveraging the science of habit formation—improves the utilization of sleep health behavior and improves sleep and circadian outcomes...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Description of Research: Sleep problems negatively impact mental and physical health. However, relatively few providers are trained in evidence-based treatments for sleep problems. Our team (the Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic directed by Dr. Allison Harvey) trained providers working in community mental health centers to deliver an...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesAllison Harvey - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of the NIA study is improve sleep and circadian functioning, daytime functioning, and well-being for midlife and older adults by utilizing a transdiagnostic sleep and circadian treatment...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The ability to quantitatively measure changes to the central nervous system is approaching a crucial milestone for neuro-imaging - the ability to measure change on an individual patient level. The Multiple Sclerosis Center at UCSF, in concert with our partners, has prioritized the development of a panoply of neuro-imaging...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and Department of Neurology are excited to offer a combined educational and research opportunity for motivated undergraduate students in the medical imaging research team. 3D segmentation of structures in the brain and spinal cord is a problem that deep learning is uniquely equipped...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesRoland Henry - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UCSF’s Department of Neurology has some of the largest clinical neuroimaging datasets in the world. As the director of imaging for the multiple sclerosis group, Dr. Roland Henry’s laboratory is in charge of making sense of this data and applying next generation analytical techniques to translate this raw data into...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Our lab is interested in how the brain computes and represents values that allow us to make decisions. These decisions range from the mundane and everyday, such as what to have for lunch, to truly momentous ones such as deciding on where to attend college. This project, and others in...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
As a fast growing branch of artificial intelligence, natural language processing (NLP) has made it possible to uncover subtle patterns and hidden trends in large-scale real-world text data. It offers researchers and practitioners powerful tools to efficiently derive novel insights and predictions that are otherwise expensive or even...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are looking for 1-2 student trainees who are interested in understanding the effects of early-life adversity/stress on economic and financial decision-making. Despite the well-documented fact of the impact of early-life adversity on life-outcomes, researchers and policymakers know much less about the specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMing Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project will apply neuroscientific tools and insights to address a problem that has bedeviled businesses, legal scholars, and policymakers—how to more objectively determine whether a work of art is “based on plagiarism” or is “obscene”. In music copyright, for example, a key question is whether two works are...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceSa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
From recent bans on queer and feminist literature in public school systems, to restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare, to reduced access to reproductive healthcare, gender identity and sexuality is increasingly at the center of political and ideological discourse in the U.S. As a research laboratory studying social identity and hierarchy...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If you were to estimate how much income and wealth the average Black family in the U.S. had relative to their White counterparts in 1963 and 2019, how accurate do you think you would be? It turns out that most people are extremely inaccurate, consistently and systematically overestimating the amount...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever laughed when someone tripped, felt joy when someone faced the consequences of their actions, or celebrated when a rival sports team or political party lost? When people think about the role of emotions in intergroup relations, they tend to think of empathy, commonly defined as the sensitivity...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySa-kiera Hudson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In 1989, University of California Los Angeles law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality to describe how intersecting structures of power shape modes of discrimination and prejudice. Drawing from Black feminism, Crenshaw argued that the discrimination of Black women could not be understood as simply a composite of sexism...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory addresses how people learn new motor skills. We study this topic using behavioral and computational methods with healthy and neurologically impaired humans. The neurological studies examine the contribution of different brain structures, especially the cerebellum and basal ganglia, in motor learning to develop functional hypotheses regarding...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Research in our laboratory addresses various aspects of human performance and cognition, and how these abilities are impacted by degenerative neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease or cerebellar degeneration. We are looking for an apprentice who could help with running and programming online experiments...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRichard Ivry - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this project is to test the efficacy of a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) device that has been developed at Berkeley. NIBS methods have been around for about 40 years and involve applying weak electrical or magnetic fields to the scalp (non-invasive) in order to...
Biological & Health Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We explore how motivated and cognitive biases lead people to support inequality, even when it's not in their best interest to do so...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
For this lab study, we are examining moral decision-making within group contexts. Specifically, we are exploring how moral decisions are discussed and made in groups...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data Science