BeSS
The D-Lab includes five interconnected labs
b-lab
The behavioural lab carries out experimental lab research on inequality-relevant behaviour
Head of the lab: Tarek Jaber-López & Luis Miller
Research team: Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea, Roeland Endtz, Francisco Herreros, Tarek Jaber-López, Raúl López-Pérez, Luis Miller, Turkay Nefes, Isabel Rodríguez.
Mission: To carry out innovative lab research on inequaity-relevant behaviour, with special attention to the role of norms, informtion deficits, cognitive shortcuts and biases, identity and ingroup-outgroup dynamics, amonst others.
f-lab
The field-experimental lab carries out online correspondence tests on hiring and housing discrimination
Head of the lab: Javer G. Polavieja
Fieldwork coordinators: Javier Carrero & Toni Gamundí
Fieldwork team: Lucía Cañas, Javier Carrero, Roeland Endtz, Toni Gamundí, Niklas Rodriguez.
Mission: To carry out cutting-edge field-experimental research on hiring discrimination using computer-assisted online correspondence tests. To this end we have developed a unique software infrastructure we call SAdIE. You can learn more about SAdIE here.
i-lab
The innovation lab fosters methodological innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration
Head of the lab: Javier Polavieja
Research team: Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea, Javier Carrero, Toni Gamundí, Francisco Herreros, Tarek Jaber-Lopez, Luis Miller, Turkay Nefes, Javier Polavieja, Isabel Rodriguez.
Mission: The i-lab's mission is i) to design and implement innovative research methods (e,g, the SISTER method), ii) to explore and monitor the use of new research technologies (specially, generative AI), and iii) to foster collaboration with researchers from the natural sciences in projects related to the study of inequality and dicrimination.
s-lab
The survey-experimental lab carries out online survey experiments
Head of the lab: Francisco Herreros
Research team: Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea, Roeland Endtz, Toni Gamundí, Luis Miller, Turkay Nefes, Javier Polavieja, Isabel Rodriguez.
Mission: The s-lab mission is to design and implement online survey experiments on topics related to inequality and discrimination, including, amongst others, atttitudes towards minorities, ethnic and political identities and polarization, the role of visceral emotions on prejudice and xenophobia, the determinants of interethinc trust, or the role of culture as a determinant of atatinment-related behaviour.
w-lab
The web-experimental lab carries out online experimental research on the web
Head of the lab: Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea & Turkay Nefes
Research team: Amalia Álvarez-Benjumea, Roeland Endtz, Toni Gamundí, Francisco Herreros, Luis Miller, Turkay Nefes, Isabel Rodriguez.
Mission: To carry oyt cutting-edge web-experimental research on online behaviour , with particular interest on hate speech, interpresonal trust, hoax difuusion, conspiracy theories, etnic and political polarization and discrimination.