Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology
Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
- PhD, McGill University
Education & Training
My research is driven by an interdisciplinary, social-ecological approach to human cognition. I am interested in how diverse social experiences, such as interpersonal bridging of distinct perspectives or ambient exposure to neighborhood-level social diversity, relate to the way we adaptively understand information. I study this within the domains of language, social cognition, social category perception, identity, and much more.
I leverage a broad range of tools to quantify subtle dynamics in social experience, including Social Network Analysis and population demographic analysis from federal datasets. I link these experiential factors to experimental and neurocognitive outcomes, including performance on computerized behavioral tasks (e.g., self-paced reading, resource allocation, social games, cognitive batteries) as well as eye movement patterns using eyetracking.
