The questions behind the work.
I study how people interpret evidence, remember context, make judgments, and respond to uncertainty. Experiments, statistics, text analysis, machine learning, and coding are tools for making those questions testable.
Recurring questions
Questions I keep returning to.
These questions explain why the work hangs together. The canonical list of papers stays on the publications page.
Memory, context, and knowledge over time
How do people and organizations keep track of what happened, what changed, and what can be trusted?
This is the bridge between research and MemwaMind: people and organizations need ways to preserve context, retrieve what matters, and revise judgment when new evidence appears.
Related public threads
- When the Specter of the Past Haunts Current Groups: Psychological Antecedents of Historical Blame
2024 | Published | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Language and social meaning
How does language reveal justification, outrage, socialization, identity, and public meaning?
Language is treated as evidence about interpretation, but only when categories are defined clearly and checked against the social situation.
Related public threads
- Why Reform Stalls: Justification and Outrage as Competing Public Responses to Police Violence
2025 | Preprint / IPR working paper | Northwestern Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, WP-25-31
- Racial Socialization in the United States
2025 | Published | Annual Review of Psychology
- From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning’s Role in Social Cognition
2025 | Published | Social Cognition
Judgment when evidence feels threatening
What happens to judgment when evidence threatens identity, integrity, certainty, or group meaning?
The work asks when people defend, revise, blame, or reinterpret, and keeps claims tied to the design that produced them.
Related public threads
- When the Specter of the Past Haunts Current Groups: Psychological Antecedents of Historical Blame
2024 | Published | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Why Reform Stalls: Justification and Outrage as Competing Public Responses to Police Violence
2025 | Preprint / IPR working paper | Northwestern Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, WP-25-31
Systems that keep judgment visible
How should systems keep sources, uncertainty, and human review visible?
This question connects computational methods and product thinking around a practical standard: people should still be able to see the source, the uncertainty, and the judgment call.
Related public threads
- From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning’s Role in Social Cognition
2025 | Published | Social Cognition
- Why Reform Stalls: Justification and Outrage as Competing Public Responses to Police Violence
2025 | Preprint / IPR working paper | Northwestern Institute for Policy Research Working Paper Series, WP-25-31