Research
I am interested in how our psychological mechanisms perform in and adapt to our hyper-socialized, hyper-accelerated modern world of social media, smartphones, and cultural digitization. I find it vitally important to examine how this extensive digital new reality plays a role in the concurrent cultural polarization and youth mental health crises facing the US (and beyond).
My current research focuses on how individuals and groups form moral identities across cultures, primarily within the context of cultural conflicts. I study these psychological dynamics as they manifest in international conflicts, shift in experimental studies, and correlate with online language and behavior utilizing machine learning and other computational methods (NLP, geospatial measurement, etc.).