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Leif Nelson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab group studies human judgment and decision making, and are currently investigating cultural differences and similarities between people in the United States and in China. In this position you will work with Professor Leif Nelson on a variety of projects within the Behavioral Lab (BLab) and for the MORS...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyLeif Nelson - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This interdisciplinary project seeks to explore and investigate the intricate realms of judgment and decision-making, blending insights from social psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive science. Our central focus is understanding how the framing of a situation or problem can significantly alter human behavior and choices. What You Will Explore...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAruna 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: Current Term Now Closed 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 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 & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Technology is rapidly changing, giving humans more options than ever to decide how to communicate with each other. Whereas online options to engage with others are expanding, in-person contact seems to be decreasing. How are these changes affecting the way people connect with each other? How does this affect...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If humans are social animals, then why do they choose to remain disconnected with people sometimes? Here we explore when people don’t want to connect with others, such as when they are strangers. In one set of studies, we asked strangers to have conversations on public transportation (e.g., buses, cabs...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Human-GAI Interaction is inevitably becoming more common. We seek to address the following research questions: 1. What are the pros and cons of mandatory disclosure of non-political deepfake commercials? Would the disclosure affect people's trust towards the political information they see? 2. How could GAI aid crowd-based...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on human-AI interfaces for a variety of applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesNick Tsivanidis - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
As part of a larger project on the impacts of new bus and rail in Lagos, our team is looking for a research assistant to help manage, clean and analyze cellphone metadata being shared with us by a large telco in Nigeria. The work is a 3 way partnership between...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceGuo Xu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project studies the time use of presidents by digitizing and leveraging the presidential diaries (1900-2017). The presidential diaries contain hourly information about activities and meetings of presidents throughout history, allowing us to take an unusually close look at how different political leaders allocate their time and attention...
Social SciencesLuyi Yang - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project will take a deep dive into competition of durable good markets (e.g., the automobile industry) and its environmental implications by analyzing household-level transactions data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The project aims to understand firms' pricing strategies and consumer substitution behavior, with a focus on...
Luyi Yang - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Machine learning and data mining have been changing the business world. However, they can still be a black box to non-experts who lack technical expertise. This project aims to demystify the machine learning workflow for lay people by delivering efficient and well-explained computer code that is comprehensible to...