T.R.A.P. LAB

Overview of our research

Our goal is to explore how race and racism underlie the foundation of marketing, the market place, consumer technology, and marketing research. To support this research, we started a weekly lab meeting with research-active faculty from around the world and across disciplines. We call this the Technology Race and Prejudice Lab (T.R.A.P. LAB). Work from this lab “will create solutions that simultaneously enhance organizations’ economic, social and environmental outcomes. We meet every week online to explore recent published research and share new findings and get feedback.

T.R.A.P. Lab Affiliates

Who we are...

Chairs

Breagin Riley, Assistant Research Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame

Broderick Turner, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Virginia Tech

Megan Trillo, Marketing Doctoral Candidate, Duke University

Recent Presenters
Jackson Trager, Social Psychology PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
Nicole Davis, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Kentucky

Elaine Guevara, Evolutionary Biologist, Duke University

Andre Martin, Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame

Taiwo Togun, Data Scientist , Social Entrepreneur, and so much more

Vanessa Perry, Vice Dean for Strategy and Professor of Marketing, Strategic Management, and Public Policy, GWU

Overall

An interdisciplinary cohort of graduate students, faculty members, and industry experts.

Our Work

Do you want to help?

You can help code computer vision training data...

We are conducting algorithm audit studies across multiple platforms. A key step is to classify the faces appearing in several important datasets used to train the algorithm. We need volunteers to help assess and classify pictures (e.g., whether the picture includes any recognizable faces and what is the likely racial and ethnic classification of those faces). You may categorize as many or as few images as you please. However, if you feel yourself losing interest, or making errors, please stop for the day. Accuracy is more important than quantity.

You can help here.

Building a pool of diverse participants

Academic research in business is very limited in the number of non-White participants it includes. Are you interested in getting paid to do short and interesting research studies?

If so, click here to become a participant.

Algorithm Auditors?

We live in a world that uses algorithms to do everything. Decide your credit score. Pick your partner. Choose your fate. We are looking for long term volunteers to upload data profiles to various websites and report the results. Please contact bltphd@vt.edu for more info.

How to measure and report race...

Hey academics,

Do you measure age and gender in your experiments and surveys? You report it, right?

Do you measure race? Report it? Why or Why not? Click here to learn our thinking about this.