I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon, studying social psychology. My advisor is Sara Hodges.
My primary interest is in decision perception. Currently, this applies to which decisions normal people are making in their everyday lives, and how they view these decisions or mentally construe them.
My secondary interest is in perspective-taking behaviors and processes. Currenttly I'm working on a project which addresses the perspective-taking abilities of those who willingly engage in perspective taking "practice" in their everyday lives--specifically, fiction writers (who create imaginary characters and then describe their stories) and people who play role-playing games (who create imaginary characters to behave as or control).
My tertiary interest is in human-computer interaction, specifically in
the realm of computer-mediated communication and unobtrusive behavioral
measures of psychological variables such as digital text and natural language
interpretation on a syntactic level or behavioral logfile analyses. I
have other intersts in psychometrics and data representation as well.
I attended Carnegie-Mellon University for my bachelor's an master's degree, both in Logic and Computation. My MS thesis work was in unobtrusive behavioral measurement of online learners, with Richard Scheines. I spent an enjoyable year working as a research associate for Carnegie-Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, with Susan Fussell and Sara Kiesler on projects relating to shared visual spaces, anthropomorphism, differences in computer-mediated communications media, and more.