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SUMMARY:A Cognitive View of Policing: Leveraging Behavioral Science to Improve Officer Training
DESCRIPTION:About the Lecture\nWhat if the key to police reform isn’t changing policies or removing “bad actors\,” but understanding how good officers make decisions under pressure? Professor Dube argues that prevailing approaches to police reform overlook a fundamental reality: officers must make decisions under intense stress and time pressure—cognitive conditions that lead even well-intentioned officers to rely on mental shortcuts and default assumptions. Drawing on insights from behavioral economics\, Professor Dube designed a new training approach that addresses these cognitive realities. Through a sustained partnership with the Chicago Police Department\, she tested whether changing how officers think could transform how they act. This seminar will present the results from this collaboration\, demonstrating how behavioral science offers a promising new pathway for police reform that works with\, rather than against\, human psychology. \nEvent Recording\n \nAbout the Speaker\nProfessor Dube studies poverty\, violence and crime in countries around the world. \nOne strand of her research analyzes how economic shocks shape conflict dynamics. Another strand examines how cognitive factors give rise to violence. \nShe uses both quasi-experimental and experimental research designs\, and draws on a wide variety of sources\, including original surveys\, hand collected records\, and big data to study these questions. \nHer work has appeared in leading journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, Science\, the Journal of Political Economy\, the Review of Economic Studies\, and the American Political Science Review. \nDube holds a number of research affiliations and appointments. She is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)\, a fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)\, a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) and an affiliate of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. She co-leads the Crime and Violence Initiative at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)\, and the Socio-economic Inequalities Initiative at the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute. \nDirectly preceding her appointment at the Harris School\, Dube was an assistant professor of politics and economics at New York University. Prior to that\, she worked at the World Bank\, Oxfam International\, and the Brookings Institution. \nDube received her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University\, her M Phil in Economics from Oxford University\, and her BA in Public Policy from Stanford University. She was also the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship in 2002.
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