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I'm an experimental social psychologist studying morality and identity. 

I study how social identities, such as political affiliation and religion, shape the way we tackle moral problems and reason about moral topics. I also study how moral beliefs influence how we think about ourselves, others, and the concept of "the self" in general.

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Recent Publications


The Privileges We Do and Do Not See: The Relative Salience of Interpersonal and Circumstantial Benefits.

Journal Article Personality & social psychology bulletin · November 2025 People attend more to disadvantages in their lives than to advantages, a phenomenon known as the Headwinds/Tailwinds Asymmetry. In seven studies (N = 1,526), we present an important caveat to this pattern: When people do notice and acknowledg ... Full text Cite

No Developmental Differences in Preferences for Epistemic Versus Physical Uncertainty Across Three Diverse Cultures.

Journal Article Developmental science · November 2025 We regularly make decisions under uncertainty, but the same decision can feel different when made under physical uncertainty, where a decision maker must guess at an outcome that has not yet occurred, and epistemic uncertainty, where the outcome has occurr ... Full text Cite

Thinking About God Encourages Prosociality Toward Religious Outgroups: A Cross-Cultural Investigation.

Journal Article Psychological science · June 2023 Most humans believe in a god or gods, a belief that may promote prosociality toward coreligionists. A critical question is whether such enhanced prosociality is primarily parochial and confined to the religious ingroup or whether it extends to members of r ... Full text Cite
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