Welcome to my website! I am a graduate student at CU Boulder working with Joshua Correll and Bernadette Park. On this page, you can find select examples of materials I have created to share my statistical knowledge and demonstration versions of tasks that I have programmed for research purposes. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments about any of it!
Research
Broadly speaking, my research addresses group-based issues. More specifically, I am interested in implicit measures of social attitudes and group-based identities. My research also has strong methodological undercurrents.
In one line of research, I have examined the convergent validity of implicit measures of prejudice. Implicit measures have been described as a way to gain insight into people’s thoughts and feelings that they might not even be aware of. In some ways, implicit measures are robust. They show levels of biased responding on average with remarkable consistency (at least from sample to sample) and they correlate with interesting behaviors. For example, a study of more than 20,000 people by Bar-Anan and Nosek (2014) showed that respondents were prejudiced in their keypresses across seven different measures and three different attitude domains. Another study by Jacogy-Senghor, Sinclair, and Shelton (2016) showed that participants unintentionally adjusted the quality of lesson that they taught based on the race of their student. Taken alone, these results suggest that implicit measures provide valuable insight into the minds of particiapnts.
However, implicit measures tend to show weak evidence of convergent validity. That is, people who perform one kind of implicit measure might not score the same on a second kind of measure. My research has focused on attempting to resolve this discrepancy. I have tried to address this issue by experimentally manipulating factors that should affect implicit measure reliability, like attitude strength (Howe & Krosnick, 2017). I have also tried to increase the validity of implicit measures through mathematical modeling.
Another line of research examines the way that group identities can impact the self-concept. When participants are lead to believe that they performed poorly on a test, their state-self-esteem takes a hit. However, this damage can be prevented if they first have the opportunity to contemplate a group that is highly important to their identity. Group-affirmations teach us about the way that groups are a part of the way people think about themselves.
Hobbies
I currently live in Boulder CO, and I fit in quite well! I love to rock climb and I have taken full advantage of the opportunities the Front Range has to offer in this regard. I also learned to ski here over the past couple of seasons. And of course, I have hiked and camped in lots of places from the Grand Canyon to the forests of Pennsylvania.
Before discovering social science, I was trained as an engineer. I still love objects, mechanical systems, and learning about manufacturing processes. I built a 3d printer that I use to create fun and useful objects. I also do most of my own repairs on my car and motorcycle. Every now and then, I try to explore a new method to create: sewing, screen printing, woodworking, and metal-working are all things I have dabbled in.