Sera Linardi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4371330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sera Linardi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sera |
| FAMILY NAME | Linardi |
| SIGNATURE | LINARDI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8085-1555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching Note—Preparing Social Work Students to Work With Public Interest Technology
Social work has long engaged with technology but has primarily done so as a consumer, missing opportunities for deeper interdisciplinary collaboration with technologists. This teaching note introduces public interest technology (PIT), an emerging interdisciplinary field dedicated to designing, deploying, and governing technology to serve the public interest and enhance people’s well-being. The teaching note advocates for integrating PIT into soci…
Globalization and Willingness to Support the Poor in Developing Countries
Does an individual’s exposure to aspects of globalization impact their willingness to redistribute to the poor? We hypothesize that the “glitter” of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries leads relatively better-off citizens to perceive that the poor now have more opportunities and are thereby less deserving of help. Findings from an experiment across three states in India reveal that subjects lower their financial support for th…
Casual Contact and Ethnic Bias
What determines how contact with the out-group affects behavior? We show experimentally that casual interethnic contact in a postconflict society can increase ethnic bias. Day laborers in Kabul, Afghanistan, were equally altruistic toward their in-group and their out-group when out-group members were not physically present. When out-group members were physically present in an environment where no guidance for interaction or explicit incentives fo…
Clerics and Scriptures
This article unpacks the psychological influence of a Muslim cleric’s power to mobilize for collective action in an experiment in Afghanistan. The same cleric requests contributions for a hospital from day laborers when dressed as a civilian and as a cleric. InCiviliancondition, 50 per cent contributed and 17 per cent made large contributions; inClericcondition, 83 per cent contributed but average giving did not increase as most gave the smallest…
Awareness of low self-control
Violence and Cell Phone Communication
Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets
Clerics and Scriptures
This article unpacks the psychological influence of a Muslim cleric’s power to mobilize for collective action in an experiment in Afghanistan. The same cleric requests contributions for a hospital from day laborers when dressed as a civilian and as a cleric. InCiviliancondition, 50 per cent contributed and 17 per cent made large contributions; inClericcondition, 83 per cent contributed but average giving did not increase as most gave the smallest…
Casual Contact and Ethnic Bias
What determines how contact with the out-group affects behavior? We show experimentally that casual interethnic contact in a postconflict society can increase ethnic bias. Day laborers in Kabul, Afghanistan, were equally altruistic toward their in-group and their out-group when out-group members were not physically present. When out-group members were physically present in an environment where no guidance for interaction or explicit incentives fo…
Globalization and Willingness to Support the Poor in Developing Countries
Does an individual’s exposure to aspects of globalization impact their willingness to redistribute to the poor? We hypothesize that the “glitter” of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries leads relatively better-off citizens to perceive that the poor now have more opportunities and are thereby less deserving of help. Findings from an experiment across three states in India reveal that subjects lower their financial support for th…
Awareness of low self-control
Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets
Violence and Cell Phone Communication
Awareness of low self-control
Casual Contact and Ethnic Bias
What determines how contact with the out-group affects behavior? We show experimentally that casual interethnic contact in a postconflict society can increase ethnic bias. Day laborers in Kabul, Afghanistan, were equally altruistic toward their in-group and their out-group when out-group members were not physically present. When out-group members were physically present in an environment where no guidance for interaction or explicit incentives fo…
Clerics and Scriptures
This article unpacks the psychological influence of a Muslim cleric’s power to mobilize for collective action in an experiment in Afghanistan. The same cleric requests contributions for a hospital from day laborers when dressed as a civilian and as a cleric. InCiviliancondition, 50 per cent contributed and 17 per cent made large contributions; inClericcondition, 83 per cent contributed but average giving did not increase as most gave the smallest…
Globalization and Willingness to Support the Poor in Developing Countries
Does an individual’s exposure to aspects of globalization impact their willingness to redistribute to the poor? We hypothesize that the “glitter” of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries leads relatively better-off citizens to perceive that the poor now have more opportunities and are thereby less deserving of help. Findings from an experiment across three states in India reveal that subjects lower their financial support for th…
Teaching Note—Preparing Social Work Students to Work With Public Interest Technology
Social work has long engaged with technology but has primarily done so as a consumer, missing opportunities for deeper interdisciplinary collaboration with technologists. This teaching note introduces public interest technology (PIT), an emerging interdisciplinary field dedicated to designing, deploying, and governing technology to serve the public interest and enhance people’s well-being. The teaching note advocates for integrating PIT into soci…
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)