{"id":441,"date":"2019-09-05T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=441"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:46:38","slug":"silas-xuereb","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/people\/silas-xuereb\/","title":{"rendered":"Silas Xuereb"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Silas Xuereb was the research lab manager of Betterment Labs (2019 &#8211; 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the summer of 2019, he completed an undergraduate research internship under the supervision of Dr. Michael Wohl where he examined the social, economic and psychological determinants of support for strong non-democratic leaders. He also completed his honours thesis in psychology with Dr. Wohl. His other research interests include relative deprivation, income inequality and prejudice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"awards\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Chancellor&#8217;s Medal<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>FASS Undergraduate Student Research Internship<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018<\/td><td>T. N. Brewis Scholarship in Applied Economics<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Silas","cu_people_last_name":"Xuereb","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[23],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-441","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-research-staff"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Research Lab Manager (2019-2020)","cu_people_degree":"Bachelor of Economics Combined Honours in Economics and Psychology","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"silas.xuereb@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/441\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bettermentlabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}