Research interests

Current Academic projects

• Motivated reasoning and memory
• Judgments/decision-making
• Gaming communication
  
• User experiences
  
• Political polarization and bias 

• Ways to limit the impact of fake news/misinformation on social media
• Helping people overcome political biases and polarization
• ​Perceptions of racism and how different groups define it
• Improving cooperative and reducing toxic interactions in online games
• Memory and attitude change for political figures over time

Research talks given for a general audience

online articles

• Help! I've been called a racist and I don't know why [Fearless She Wrote, 2020]
• (Mis)remembering Sexual Assault [Daily Journal, 2014]
• Disaggregating Clinton's support among minority voters [SurveyMonkey Election Tracking, 2016]
• What should happen after an officer-involved shooting? Memory concerns in police reporting procedures [JARMAC, 2016]
• Is Trump tapping into Totalitarian or Populist sentiment? [SurveyMonkey Election Tracking, 2016]
• At least bias is bi-partisan: A meta-analytic comparison of partisan bias in liberals and conservatives [SSRN pre-print, 2017]

students i have mentored

Chris Koeu (first photo), now a lab manager at USC
Alma Olgaluez (second photo), now a PhD student at UC Irvine