Research
I am the Lead Research Apprentice at the Social and Moral Judgment (
SOMO) Lab at UC Berkeley’s
Walter A. Haas School of Business, where I work with the two principal investigators on both sides of the lab.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinated the day-to-day operations of the lab and provided the principal investigators with regular updates on lab activity
- Recruited, trained, and supervised four new and returning graduate and undergraduate research apprentices in conducting laboratory and field experiments
- Oversaw the successful administration of two in-person experiments on political conflict and communication, adhering to IRB protocols and managing participant scheduling and payment requests for research apprentices via online subject pools
Responsibilities:
- Conduct 100+ in-person and virtual experiments with pairs of participants, exploring the impact of communication medium on social judgments of understanding, misarticulation, and personality traits within teacher-student learning scenarios
- Participate in weekly meetings with the lab’s principal investigators and fellow graduate and undergraduate members, offering feedback on the theoretical approaches, experimental designs, and analyses of quantitative and qualitative data in lab research
- Secure departmental grant funding, gain institutional review board approval, and administer an online conjoint survey experiment as part of a self-directed quantitative study examining citizens’ perceptions of political candidates with disabilities
- Apply the scientific method to answer complex questions in social psychology
Responsibilities:
- Conducted 200+ in-person experiments with pairs of participants, utilizing interactive Qualtrics surveys to investigate cumulative redundancy bias and the better-than-average effect on moral judgments in various economic and political contexts
- Participated in weekly meetings with the lab’s principal investigators and fellow graduate and undergraduate members, offering feedback on the theoretical approaches, experimental designs, and analyses of quantitative and qualitative data in lab research
- Applied the scientific method to answer complex questions related to the intersection of judgment and decision-making, consumer behavior, and social psychology
