Kevin Jarbo
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Kevin Jarbo
@kevinjarbo.bsky.social
Asst. Prof in Social and Decision Sciences @ Carnegie Mellon. I study students’ academic help-seeking decisions. I teach courses on the social psych of race and prejudice and behavioral science of discrimination and inequity. I also ❤️❤️❤️ sneakers.
Over time, I’ve decoded the question as “What do you do for other people?”

Once I got a faculty job, they didn’t automatically care what my dissertation was about, but understood it as a way to establish my credentials to teach in college. They cared about me and having a job vs training for one.
December 8, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I 100% agree with you here! Every one of my therapists and my spouse who is also a therapist who applied for clinical but went counseling, would totally attest to this too!

Glad you’re steering folks in the more fruitful direction for their pursuits!
December 7, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Thank you! We are looking to develop and test more with students, staff, and faculty. Bias training has small effects that are notoriously short lived. We hope that making it fun to debias behavior will have lasting impacts by motivating people to practice through games!
December 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
The amplification is very much appreciated 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
December 7, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Sorry about that—hope this one works!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Bias at play: Investigating sensitization and desensitization to diversity and inclusion via interactions with bots
www.sciencedirect.com
December 7, 2024 at 2:01 PM
My colleagues Geoff Kaufman and @cotyg.bsky.social @carnegiemellon.bsky.social use a game to show humans can learn social norms from bots about responding to bias incidents at work. We found offensive (vs responsible) bot responses leads to more offensive human responses and hostility afterward.
December 7, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Also thanks for your interest in my work! I have a lot of irons in the fire much different than my brain imaging days, but here is something recent: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com
December 7, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Thank you! Also adjacent and have a few friends with clinical degrees or in clinical programs now. I’m inspired to ask them more now 😁
December 7, 2024 at 1:53 PM
All that said, I’m definitely curious about the actually answer too!
December 7, 2024 at 1:32 PM
If some subset of this applicants are like I was, clinical affords them ability to practice if they have the dual interest with research. (I wanted to go MD or DO at the time). But also FWIW, clinical can get you on TT, has more prestige than counseling psych, social work, and PsyD.
December 7, 2024 at 1:32 PM
I don’t have the answer to this but saw the scope a while back. Anecdotally, I applied to a 1 clinical program back in 2013. 400+ apps for 5-6 spots. At the time, I applied to a bio-health-psych, but 4 cog neuro programs where I ultimately landed.
December 7, 2024 at 1:32 PM