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Ming Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Check back for status 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
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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: Check back for status 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: Check back for status 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
Project 2A: 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...
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 & PsychologySusan Hyde - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
On November 9, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) launched a new national academic partnership initiative focused on conflict anticipation and prevention. Through the Academic Centers of Conflict Anticipation and Prevention (ACCAP) initiative, universities will collaborate with CSO on research, analysis, and data that...
Social SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for one junior student who would be interested in working with Dr. Susan Ivey and Dr. Winston Tseng (School of Public Health) to analyze county-level data on overdoses and deaths from overdose, risk factors, and harm reduction policies (fentanyl testing, xylazine testing, Narcan) to evaluate programs...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We are seeking 1 additional student for Spring. This project is a consortium of UCB, CSUEB/CSULB, and community colleges around the state to shape a training program in PH informatics which is use of data and visualization of data for public health surveillance, disease tracking, program evaluation, and mapping...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will be trained to take blood pressure readings and to use motivational interviewing strategies to help individuals in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to make change in diet, physical activity, smoking, or other lifestyle behaviors. Coaches will work 1:1 with participants to give telephone and person to person support...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This is a qualitative study of Medicaid-insured pregnant patients and barriers to care in safety net obstetric settings. Patients are in the UCSF system and will be interviewed about barriers to care and videovisit access using open-ended questions, in English and Spanish...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesCesunica Ivey, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Marin City Climate Resilience is dedicated to safeguarding the environment and promoting sustainability. We focus on implementing strategies to enhance climate resilience and mitigate environmental risks in Marin City, CA. By engaging with the community and advocating for sustainable practices, we aim to create a more resilient and environmentally conscious...
Environmental Issues Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesCesunica Ivey, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Environmental Issues Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: Check back for status 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 ScienceDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Some topics under investigation: - Do perceptions of hiring criterion vary based on preference to maintain the status quo? - Exploring the pitfalls of the hiring process and attempts to increase diversity - Why do supervisors assign more diversity related tasks to racial minority and woman employees? What psychological cost does this have...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Digital Humanities and Data ScienceSheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
We aim to test whether time-restricted eating (in which a person eats during the 10 most active hours of their day) or Mediterranean diet can help reduce symptoms and improve quality of life for people with bipolar disorder...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: Off Campus
The goal of this study is to consider cognitive influences on misophonia...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this study is to use cognitive training and cognitive behavioral training to promote better emotion regulation. We are testing a novel program, N-ACT, which involves 8 sessions of practicing executive control tasks while exposed to pictures designed to invoke emotion. In each session, clients will also...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySheri Johnson - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
CALM Program researchers in UC Berkeley's psychology department are seeking a highly-motivated advanced undergraduate (or graduate) student for a volunteer Research Assistant (RA) position. Our team conducts multi-method research examining behavioral and biological mechanisms linking emotion-related impulsivity to mental health problems. We aim to recruit an RA...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKeith Johnson - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project aims to document conversational speech of ordinary people of all ages and backgrounds who grew up in Oakland. Our main interest is in how people pronounce their words - is there an "Oakland accent" but the recordings are also social records from people spanning a wide range of age...
Social SciencesAmy Joy - Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project researches current topics in nutrition and health for my undergraduate class ("Eating Green: The science behind the grassroots food movement"). My class is a small-group class that uses a discussion format to cover a range of controversial questions (eg. Are organic foods better?). Currently teaching this class...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRosemary Joyce - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Archaeology of Honduras This project will contribute to completion of reports on archaeological field projects conducted in Honduras between 1980 and 2009...
Social SciencesJerome Karabel - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Outlier Nation: The Roots and Consequences of American Exceptionalism The United States has always been exceptional – both for better and for worse. Its distinctive form of democratic capitalism has made the United States the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, the world's leading economy, and home to (by some...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The term "AI" or "artificial intelligence" is now regularly splashed across news articles and op-eds; most people have some, if vague, idea of what AI means. But the term today does not mean what it used to mean: in the last two decades, the crop of technologies we now...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
For many ordinary people, the term "Cambridge Analytica"--even if they are not sure exactly what the controversy is about--brings forth some association with the topics of election interference, psychological manipulation, illicit hacking, Russian disinformation, and Facebook. The truth is that it had very little to do with any...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs
Political scientists have noticed a large contemporary trend in the US where high-income college-educated people tend to vote Democratic rather than Republican, a reversal of earlier patterns; they have labeled this as "education polarization". Education polarization is best illustrated through the case of Prop 22 in California. In...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesShreeharsh Kelkar - Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF)
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In October 2012, the Harvard Business Review declared “data scientist” to be the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” Part of a "Spotlight package" on the power of "big data" and its potential to change organizations and management, the articles in the issue collectively argued that with the growth of...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Arts & Humanities Social SciencesAndrew Kim - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the neuroendocrine, immunological, and psychiatric pathways underlying the consequences of trauma exposure in adults living in South Africa. Data come from two separate studies: the first on intergenerational trauma from apartheid in a longitudinal birth cohort study in Soweto, South Africa and the second on long COVID...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesMichael Kiparsky - Associate Director, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
California faces major challenges with groundwater governance. Groundwater is a crucial source of water for Californians, but Californians are pumping more groundwater than is naturally replenished. That leads to growing aquifer depletion, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley, with a variety of negative human health, environmental, and economic consequences. Some...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesMichael Kiparsky - Associate Director, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In 2014, California passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). This law tasks local government agencies with developing and implementing groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) to achieve sustainable groundwater management within their groundwater basins. Among other things, GSPs explain what management actions local agencies will take to achieve sustainability (for example...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesLaura Kray - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines behavior, beliefs, and attitudes relevant to gender differences in career attainment. Using a variety of methods, including experimental studies, correlational studies, and archival analyses, this project seeks to understand organizational barriers limiting gender equality in compensation and advancement and to identify interventions aimed at mitigating them. Some...
Social SciencesLaura Kray - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines how power differently impacts men and women's experiences of the workplace. Power leads people to experience a number of psychological changes, however these changes may manifest differently in men and women. To investigate this question, we will run correlational studies, social science experiments, and interviews...
Social SciencesLaura Kray - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
In this project, we are interested in how people experience question and answer periods after talks about research. The research in this project is centered around how do people judge the questions other people ask and how does that make them in turn feel. For our next study, we would...
Social SciencesDorothy Kronick - Professor, Center for Effective Global Action
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The majority of people in extreme poverty live in conflict-affected or fragile countries, most of which experience primarily internal conflicts, rather than wars with another country. Latin America has experienced a number of recent civil conflicts, as well as notable drug trafficking efforts and crime waves that cause more...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceHRC Lab - Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Thank you for your interest in the Investigations Lab. For the Spring 2025 semester, we are only accepting applications from students that completed LS125 in Fall 2024. Those students were already sent a supplemental application due January 6th. We are not accepting any other applicants this semester, but will accept...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
People are exposed to stories of all kinds in their daily lives, including appealing but false stories such as conspiracy theories. One way to understand the causal influence of stories on beliefs and behaviors is to use them as experimental treatments. The outcomes of these experiments can vary widely depending...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Threat perception has always played a major role in foreign and domestic policy-making. From Covid to climate change to terrorism, policy-makers have made decisions about which potential threats to address and which to ignore. This project investigates how policy-makers in the U.S. and in other countries determine...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Neuroscientists have studied the brain's response to threatening stimuli since the earliest days of brain imaging. Yet there is no single catalogue of threat perception studies and their findings. Meta-analysis involves using data from many studies to characterize the collective state of knowledge in a field. This project seeks...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Social scientists often assign categorical values to text data in order to structure it (e.g., categorizing statements made by Congress members as pro- or anti-immigration). Traditionally, this coding has been done manually by humans who read and categorize the texts of interest. This method risks both systematic error (e.g...
Social SciencesGabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
US cities continue to experience a criminal justice nightmare with high rates of interpersonal violence, police violence, and incarceration. When did this nightmare start? Why did it start? In preliminary work, I've found that this nightmare appears to have begun in Jim Crow southern cities around 1900. This finding suggests...
Social SciencesGabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Unions are one of the few democratic institutions within the workplace. However, the institutional structure of unions can encourage or constrain democracy within unions. I am interested in investigating the inner workings of union locals by collecting data on union local constitutions and bylaws, and collective bargaining agreements. Additionally, unions...
Social SciencesGabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Research apprentices will assist with a project studying the racial identity and racial attitudes of white Democrats. This group has become markedly more liberal on race-related issues over the past decade, and scholars don’t know exactly why. This projects help to explain this shift by exploring how white survey...
Social SciencesGabriel Lenz - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project has two parts. Part 1 looks at how the news media shapes policy outcomes and whether disparities in coverage lead to policy inequity. Can we show convincing evidence that news coverage of pedestrian fatalities leads to a change in local transportation policy? Are certain communities more likely to...
Social SciencesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Most poor women face challenges with menstrual hygiene. The results are staying home during one's period (limiting work and school), fear of leaks, infections, and high cost of single-use products. We are running two trials in Tamil Nadu and in Karnataka on distribution of menstrual cups. It would be...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
We are developing a curriculum based on stories, games and engaging activities ) to teach about health in poor nations (wash hands with soap, cover your cough, etc.). If you are selected for this research project, you have the OPTION to join the Youth Equity Discovery Initiative (YEDI) program. YEDI is...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Roughly 1.5 billion poor people receive healthcare from roughly 1.5 million community health workers (CHWs). CHWs are typically women with limited education and minimal training. ChatGPT, GPT4 and their peers should be able to provide high-quality support, especially if trained on the local clinical guidelines. If you are selected...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
I am involved in a research project that is giving Android smart phones to nurses and midwives in clinics in rural Kenya. We need to program an app that helps them follow a checklist of procedures for a safe delivery. If successful, I hope this app will be adopted widely...
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