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I am a postdoctoral associate in the Social Psychology & Law Lab at Cornell University.
My research uses a social cognitive approach to investigate mechanisms underlying intergroup phenomena, including police-community relations, political attitudes and behavior, and automatic attitude change. A central focus of my work is on affective processes and their influence on social evaluation and behavior. For example, I find that people automatically associate police officers with physical threat, and that these associations can motivate defensive responses to officers. Other lines of research explore how affective processes shape legal decision making and political outcomes such as support for political violence and authoritarian attitudes.
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