Research

My research lives in Social Psychology, focused on Person Perception — I design studies to explore why people do weird things (like seek out horror, or look away from it) and how we perceive and respond to one another.

Projects

With Brendan Jaghab

Whether morbid curiosity predicts a taste for horror, correlates with anxiety, and drives people to seek out negative stimuli — part of IGNITE Symposium Vol. 4.

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With Maria Anderson

How confidence, social support, and priming relate to caregiver burden and the positive aspects of caregiving.

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Student Posters

IGNITE Symposium Vol. 4

Undergraduate research supervised as part of the IGNITE Symposium.