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Spring 2025

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What causes inequality and poverty to persist?

Drew 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 Science

Moral Decision-Making

Drew 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 Science

Diversity and Gender in the Workplace

Drew 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 Science

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