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Ming Hsu - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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
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 the amount...
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 Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for two sophomore or junior students 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...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
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 of data/GIS methods. We are creating a...
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 SciencesGanesh Iyer - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The rails for the ongoing digital payments revolution in emerging markets are dependent on Point of Sale (POS) acceptance terminals at small merchants in developing countries. Those merchants play a crucial role in providing access to financial services to underserved regions. However, Indian payment firms face high merchant churn rates...
Social SciencesGanesh Iyer - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
A knowledge-based news recommendation system is significant because it can help to mitigate the negative effects of fake news, echo chambers, and opinion polarization. By presenting a diverse range of viewpoints and sources, a knowledge-based system can help to expose users to a greater range of ideas and...
Social SciencesGanesh Iyer - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
With the widespread consumption of online digital content, growing competition among media platforms for people’s attention leads to the demand for innovation in content curation. To choose which content to popularize, it is common practice in big social media firms (e.g., Facebook, Google, Netflix) to create multiple versions of content...
Social SciencesDrew Jacoby-Senghor - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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 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: Full- no new appr needed 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 to begin in the Spring 2022 semester. Our team conducts multi-method research examining behavioral and biological mechanisms linking emotion-related impulsivity to mental health...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyKeith Johnson - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Linguistic description of "California English" is based on observations of relatively few people, often college students, speaking in rather unnatural contexts. This project aims to document speech styles of ordinary people engaged in conversation. The project will focus on long-term residents of Oakland...
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: Full- no new appr needed 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 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: 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: 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 SciencesHRC Lab - Co-Faculty Director, Human Rights Center
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Applicants should fill out this supplementary questionnaire as soon as possible: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4yCePzhTSSgJF5iC0QG5V_NP8qlAH0daveoagiEBwTY9Dgg/viewform?usp=sf_link*** You will not be considered unless you have completed both the URAP application and the supplemental questionnaire. The HRC Lab is a collaborative, innovative, student-driven space that...
Social SciencesMichel Laguerre - Professor, Globalization and Information Technology,Berkeley Center for (IGS)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The focus of this study on digital surveillance provides social contexts to understand how it operates at the local, national, and global levels; how information technology is the instrument through which contemporary surveillance mostly materializes; and how the intersectionality of globalization, digitalization, and local city life generates a transversal ecosystem...
Social SciencesMichel Laguerre - Professor, Globalization and Information Technology,Berkeley Center for (IGS)
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Digital Platforms of the Transversal City/San Francisco Bay Area The Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology has been recently engaged in the decoding and unbundling of transversal aspects of the American city. The project attempts to re-problematize the operational deployment, structure, infrastructure, and agency of the transversal...
Social SciencesMarika Landau-Wells - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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: Current Term Now Closed 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 SciencesDavid Levine - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Almost half the world cooks on inefficient wood and charcoal cookstoves. These stoves kill over a million people a year from indoor air pollution, contribute to deforestation, and release billions of tonnes of CO2. Improved cookstoves can dramatically reduce these problems and also save poor households substantial amounts of time...
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...
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...
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...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesSamantha Lewis - Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The goal of the project is to create a digital repository documenting the life and works of cell biologist Dr. Ernest Everett Just (1883-1941). As the first prominent Black scientist in the United States, Just broke barriers not only via the uncommon elegance of his experimental designs but in integrating...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesKent Lightfoot - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is an opportunity for URAP students to participate in the lab-based analysis of soils excavated from the Estate Little Princess, a sugar plantation that was active on St. Croix (US Virgin Islands) from 1749 through the 1940s. Over the course of the semester students will be trained...
Social SciencesKent Lightfoot - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Researchers in the California Archaeology Laboratory are continuing a long-term study investigating land stewardship practices of Native Californian peoples. The study involves collecting samples of archaeological biological materials (shell, animal, and plant remains) from a number of sites up to 6000 years old on the Central California Coast and...
Social SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
My research focuses on enhancing Latinx child and family wellbeing, particularly among immigrant families at risk of immigration enforcement and public child welfare involvement. Specifically, my work expands our understanding of the impact that immigration policies have on the psychosocial wellbeing and trajectories of Latinx immigrant transitional age youth (TAY...
Social SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
U.S. immigration policies have become increasingly restrictive, exacerbating fears among Latinx immigrant youth and families at risk of deportation and forced family separation. Legal activity related to immigration policy and practice increased during the pandemic and provided the Trump administration with a pretext for tightening already stringent immigration policies. The...
Social SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs
Aa majority of the data on Latino family and youth outcomes in the past few decades has, with minor exceptions, provided an undifferentiated analysis of Latino populations that often fail to account for historical incorporation and additional crucial identities such as race, ethnicity, phenotype, socioeconomic status, and generation in the...
Social SciencesMara Loveman - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Throughout the nineteenth century, experiments in infrastructural promotion such as the Erie Canal, transcontinental railroads, and Hoover Dam, inaugurated new roles for government in economy and society and contributed to the United Sates' evolution from a limited, fiscal-military state to a full blown, modern regulatory and welfare state. These...
Social SciencesSamuel Lucas - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Sociologists have differing, even contradictory views of causality. From May 2019 to July 2021 we interviewed several influential ethnographers, qualitative interviewers, statistical researchers, comparative historical analysts, and philosophers about causality. On this project we will proofread the transcripts, add emotion markers, and during a weekly project meeting discuss their perspectives...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesKristin Luker - Professor, Law, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is part of an forthcoming book on how contraception and abortion, common parts of American family life throughout much of American history, came to be regulated in the late 19th century, became liberalized a century later, and are now the focus of intense political controversy. That regulation has...
Social SciencesLisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
About 10,000 years ago in Southwest Asia farming communities began to settle in large villages and produce their own food; forever changing the social and physical landscape of this region. However, the emergence of social complexity and the dramatic social and economic changes that led to the origins of agriculture...
Social SciencesLisa Maher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This Spring, work with state-of-the-art lab equipment and learn how to examine soils to find signs of past human environmental impacts. Over the course of the semester, students will be trained in the basic tenants of archaeology, geology, and geoarchaeology through the lab-based analyses of soils...
Social SciencesUlrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Looking for highly motivated apprentices interested in behavioral economics or behavioral finance research for 2022 Fall semester. We list here a selection of ongoing research projects. If selected, you will likely assist with one or more of them based on your interest, and/or with additional similar projects not listed...
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