I am a social psychologist who studies political attitudes and intergroup prejudice. I’m currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent. 
 
My research centers on the factors that drive political polarization and intergroup discord. I examine these processes to understand pressing social issues such as democratic backsliding, group disparities in health, political violence, and intergroup conflict. I take a multi-method approach to examining these questions, using experimental, archival, and field methods. Some examples of this multi-method approach include:
 
  • analyzing text from alt-right websites to understand the recent reemergence of White supremacism in the U.S.
  • collecting physiological indices of sensory sensitivity to test how individual differences in sensory/perceptual processes shape political attitudes
  • using spatial analysis to understand how implicit social cognition is shaped by a person’s local environment (e.g., neighborhood income inequality)
  • analyzing data from X (formerly Twitter) to examine asymmetries in argumentation between the political right and left
  • conducting field research on nationalism in Indonesia
 
My research has been published in outlets including Nature Human Behaviour, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: GeneralTrends in Cognitive Sciences, and Political Psychology. My work has been funded by the European Commission, the U.S. National Science Foundation, The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, The American Psychology-Law Society, the United States-Indonesia Society, and Cornell University’s Institute for the Social Sciences, Einaudi Center for International Studies, and Center for the Study of Inequality. 
 
On this site, you can find links to my published papers, manuscripts under review, and some current working papers. You can also find more information about the other ongoing projects that I am working on. Links to the OSF sites for these projects are also available, which contain all of the data, syntax, and materials for these studies.
 
P.S. Don’t forget to check out our upcoming special issue of Political Psychology: “Crowdsourcing the Next Generation of Ideas in Political Psychology.” You can find more info – and see how you can help shape the future of the field – here: https://www.next-gen-ideas.com/

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