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Spring 2026

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Research Assistant for Local Laws

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

According to the internet (and ChatGPT), it is unlawful to whistle for a lost canary before 7 AM in Berkeley. Are you skeptical of this claim? In which case, you would probably want to look up canary laws in Berkeley. Unfortunately, you cannot easily do this. If you could, you...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

Empirical Analysis & Data Visualization -- Behavioral Evidence & Algorithmic Bias

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project examines how institutions shape behavior not only through incentives, but through responsibility, timing, and attention—and how individuals and algorithms adapt to those institutional environments. Across a set of empirical and experimental papers, we study situations where people are placed into short-run institutional “states” (e.g., waiting for...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

Undergraduate Research Assistant in Behavioral Economics and Cultural Psychology

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project investigates how cultural factors influence individual motivation, focusing on a field experiment conducted in Kenya. By examining how local cultural values, beliefs, and social norms impact motivation, the study aims to provide deeper insights into the relationship between culture and economic behaviors. The research assistant will support the...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

Database creator -- legal knowledge facilitator

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

According to the internet (and ChatGPT), it is unlawful to whistle for a lost canary before 7 AM in Berkeley. Are you skeptical of this claim? In which case, you would probably want to look up canary laws in Berkeley. Unfortunately, you cannot easily do this. If you could, you...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

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