Welcome to my website! I’m a PhD Candidate in Social & Personality Psychology at Michigan State University and a member of the Belief Systems Lab. I am a political psychologist studying beliefs and belief-system dynamics. Specifically, my research asks why individuals vary in the content and meta-cognitive properties of their beliefs, and what societal implications the content and meta-cognitive properties of beliefs may have. I address my central research questions with three interrelated lines:
individual differences and belief dynamics. I examine how individual differences shape the content, organization, and evolution of beliefs.
belief stability and change in context. I test when and why beliefs and their meta-cognitive properties (e.g., moral conviction, extremity) change or remain the same when socio-political circumstances shift.
belief change interventions contextualized. I question the consequences of belief change interventions in context, and seek to shift the field towards maximizing epistemically grounded belief change, rather than raw persuasion.
Across these strands, I emphasize rigorous open-science, comprehensive evidence, and collaboration.