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Cameron 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 & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this set of research projects is to understand how people experience the psychological phenomenon of authenticity. These research questions include - what personality traits are associated with seeming the most authentic? How does the use of rationales or explanations impact perceptions of authenticity? What role does self-awareness...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
A core human desire is to express and share our inner world with others. However, try as we might, we often fail to do so fully. In fact, a central human experience is being misunderstood by others. While common, we currently know very little about the psychological consequences of feeling...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErica Bailey - Professor , Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of this research project is to examine law enforcement and civilian interactions from a micro-psychological perspective. In particular, I am interested in the cultural factors that lead to better (or worse) outcomes. I am utilize a variety of open-source and large archival datasets, as well as...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesSara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesSara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesSara Beckman - Senior Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Solutions to today’s increasingly “wicked problems” demand teaming across disciplinary boundaries. Teaming in organizations is the “engine of organizational learning…a way of working that brings people together to generate new ideas, find answers and solve problems. But people have to learn to team; it doesn’t come naturally.” (Amy Edmondson...
Social SciencesSydnee Caldwell - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes students to early-stage research on topics in labor economics, including the gender wage gap and wage inequality. The URAP group will meet once a week with the professor (Sydnee), for about an hour. During that meeting, we will discuss progress, and next steps. Each apprentice...
Clayton 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: *When do consumers defer to product-review...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyRobert Edelstein - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
URAP participants are expected to work between 9 and 12 hours per week (pursuant to the mutually agreed upon contract between the student and Professor Edelstein). Usually, the URAP team will meet with Professor Edelstein on an as needed basis to discuss assignments, provide findings as well as interact about...
Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an opportunity to work on technical projects involving ML/AI. The projects include: (i) working with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance by structuring and analyze the large textual data; (ii) building custom large...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research and policy work with web development and graphic design. The project involves maintaining and improving policy-related web resources such as Econ4UA.org, as well as designing and running experimental RCTs and surveys (sometimes involving new websites, sometimes executing simple Qualtrics surveys). Finally, the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US and abroad; Measuring...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Passionated and interested applied econometrics, statistics, data analysis, and economic development ? Join us. *** Project 1: Hard and Soft Skills for Youth in Uganda 4y and 9y follow-ups*** Data has been collected, now we study the medium and long term impacts (4y and 9y) of two exciting youth entrepreneurship and...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Passionated and interested in Field Experiments, Research Management, and Data collection? Join a cutting-edge research team at UC Berkeley! Professors Paul Gertler and Laura Chioda are leading an exciting project to understand how innovative, data-driven tools can transform student success. The study evaluates the SC2.0-based continuum model...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Join a cutting-edge research project investigating the complex relationship between drug cartel violence and labor market outcomes in Mexico. This study explores the unintended consequences of a major initiative by the Mexican government to combat organized crime by targeting cartel leadership. Between 2007 and 2014, more than 164,000 civilians...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
REMOTE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS to work with an arts, film, culture nonprofit organization - 9-11 hrs/wk (3 units), including mandatory online weekly meetings (day TBD). We are looking for students interested in gaining work experience across our two distinct workstreams: Web development and art preservation. You do not need to...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Harris - Lecturer, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Interested in researching the rise of AI and its impact on society and politics while shaping real-world policy...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesSa-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: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
3A Empathy, Schadenfreude, and Intergroup Social Hierarchy: How Emotions Enforce and Attenuate Inequality 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...
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 & PsychologyDrew 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: 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 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 ScienceLaura Kray - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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 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, etc...
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 (retrieval augmented generation, RAG...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
We’re evaluating a program distributing free Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) to treat diarrhea as an add-on to distributing seasonal antimalarials in Chad. We’re looking for a highly organized undergraduate to assist with document and data tracking, data cleaning, and project documentation...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever scored lower on a test than you expected, lost a competition to a competitor you thought you would trounce, been certain about a fact only to have Google prove you incorrect? People are frequently overconfident. Understanding overconfidence can help us become more accurate about our self-perceptions...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Human judgments are routinely biased. Can artificially intelligent agents correct for this human bias and achieve greater accuracy in their judgment...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The scientific world is changing quickly as scientists improve their research practices and correct errors in the published record. This project seeks to test the replicability of published work that is now suspect. This is a chance to play a role in a project in the vanguard of open science...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDon Moore - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Have you ever read a research article and wondered if the authors truly tested the research question they purported to test? The focus of this project concerns the evaluation of research methodology. You would work primarily with a senior graduate student in the lab on her research. It is an...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyIlan Morgenstern - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores how crime affects the operation of ridesharing platforms like Uber and Lyft. In many areas, rideshare drivers face safety concerns that shape how and where they choose to operate. Some platforms respond by allowing drivers to reject trips to high-crime areas or by excluding those zones...
Social SciencesAbhishek Nagaraj - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects that the professor (Abhishek) is working on along in his Data Innovation and AI Lab (DIAL) with PhD students and other research assistants in the Berkeley-Haas School of Business. The idea of this URAP group is...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesOlivia Natan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This is an ongoing project which examines the effects of market structure on the market for consumer data. The project uses a variety of data sources, including many through the UCB library. If you are interested in the nuts and bolts of empirical research at the intersection of marketing, economics...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesOlivia Natan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in quantitative marketing and industrial organization, including topics on product variety, pricing, and consumer demand. Examples of ongoing projects include work on optimal platform product variety, product bundling in video game markets, and consumer search and information...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the experiences of Qawwali musicians in India through open-ended interviews. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily looking for trends and creating categories from the data. So far we have identified broad effects of gender and identity on satisfaction and success...
Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Virtual Coworking platforms (e.g. CoFocus, Focusmate, Flow Club, Groove) have experienced a surge in popularity during the pandemic, especially among students, remote workers, and entrepreneurs/solopreneuers. We are in the early stages of analysis, so we are primarily seeking additional employment and demographic information of virtual coworkers from their LinkedIn...
Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project examines gender differences in productivity and engagement in remote work settings. Conducted with software testers in India, the experiment involves a comprehensive analysis of work patterns, interruptions, and productivity metrics in both remote and in-person settings. The study employs multiple data collection methods, including video observations, surveys...
Social SciencesAruna Ranganathan - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is an audit study, a type of field experiment commonly used in sociology, economics, and organizational research to detect discrimination or bias in real-world decision-making. We investigate how job applicants’ stated preferences for remote versus in-person work affect their likelihood of receiving callbacks from employers...
Social SciencesJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, grants, and more. It also provides technical...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology