I'm a social psychology PhD student at Yale University with Dr. Melissa Ferguson in the Implicit Social Cognition Lab. I am an NSF Graduate Research Fellow (GRFP).
Previously, I was a lab manager in the Deepest Beliefs Lab (PI: Dr. Kurt Gray) at The Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I completed my B.S. in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was also lab manager in the Well-Being, Health, and Interpersonal Relationships Lab (PI: Dr. Amie M. Gordon).
My research interests span moral psychology, victim blaming, implicit social cognition, and the psychology of law — with a focus on how fear, threat, and bias shape judgments about victims and wrongdoing.
Previously, I was a lab manager in the Deepest Beliefs Lab (PI: Dr. Kurt Gray) at The Ohio State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I completed my B.S. in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where I was also lab manager in the Well-Being, Health, and Interpersonal Relationships Lab (PI: Dr. Amie M. Gordon).
My research interests span moral psychology, victim blaming, implicit social cognition, and the psychology of law — with a focus on how fear, threat, and bias shape judgments about victims and wrongdoing.
Recent Publications
🏛️ The Psychology of Victimhood in the Law — Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Legal decisions hinge on who counts as a victim — but our judgments are biased and hard to change. We propose solutions: victim impact statements, funding restorative justice, and acknowledgments for exonerees.
📄 Read the paper HERE.
🧠 Liberals and Conservatives See Different Victims: Moral Disagreement Is Explained by Different Assumptions of Vulnerability —Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
📄 Read the paper HERE.
Legal decisions hinge on who counts as a victim — but our judgments are biased and hard to change. We propose solutions: victim impact statements, funding restorative justice, and acknowledgments for exonerees.
📄 Read the paper HERE.
🧠 Liberals and Conservatives See Different Victims: Moral Disagreement Is Explained by Different Assumptions of Vulnerability —Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
📄 Read the paper HERE.
Key Presentations
Consent Under Pressure
Does having someone with you when facing an intrusive consent request (like "Can I search your car?") make you less likely to comply?
→ Flash talk at SPSP 2025 | [Watch talk] | [View slides]
Does having someone with you when facing an intrusive consent request (like "Can I search your car?") make you less likely to comply?
→ Flash talk at SPSP 2025 | [Watch talk] | [View slides]
Fear and Victim Blaming
Does fearing being a victim of crime make you more likely to blame victims?
→ Poster at SPSP 2025 | [View poster]
Is the fear → blame relationship influenced by consuming true crime media?
→ Poster at SPSP 2026 | [View poster] ⭐ Awarded best poster at SPSP Moral Psych 2026!
Does fearing being a victim of crime make you more likely to blame victims?
→ Poster at SPSP 2025 | [View poster]
Is the fear → blame relationship influenced by consuming true crime media?
→ Poster at SPSP 2026 | [View poster] ⭐ Awarded best poster at SPSP Moral Psych 2026!
AI, Gait, and Deception Detection
How do people determine whether someone is behaving deceptively, and does AI-informed gait analysis change guilt judgments?
→ Poster at AP-LS 2025 | [View poster]
How do people determine whether someone is behaving deceptively, and does AI-informed gait analysis change guilt judgments?
→ Poster at AP-LS 2025 | [View poster]