Assistant Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies
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About
I run the Behavior, Culture, and Inequality Lab at the University of Michigan's Department of Psychology. With my lab, I study poverty and inequality and their remedies using the insights of social psychology and lens of cultural psychology. My research seeks to uncover social psychological processes that undermine the economic mobility of people in poverty and simultaneously depress public will to address inequality, perpetuating systems of poverty and inequality. Yet, I show how brief social psychological interventions can interrupt these systems, particularly when those interventions are attuned to culturally specific forms of motivation (what I call “culturally wise” interventions). In this work, I conduct lab and field experiments in the US and low- and middle-income countries, including in partnership with nonprofits and governments and with interdisciplinary teams.
For prospective Ph.D. students: I will not be reviewing applications this upcoming cycle (for entry in fall 2027).
