Biographical Info

I’m an affiliated graduate student working primarily with Dr. Rebecca Neel. Broadly, I examine how motivations and beliefs shape social judgment. More specifically, I investigate how goal relevance guides social perception and emotion: Whereas people perceived to threaten others’ goals may experience prejudice, people considered goal-irrelevant may be ignored and forgotten. I also examine beliefs about who can vs. cannot change and the consequences of those beliefs within intergroup contexts.