About
I study how people think and why it matters for politics. When do nonpolitical issues become "politicized?" Why and how do people come to understand bits and pieces of reality that are ostensibly political -- either by virtue of their policy-relevance or a process of politicization -- in such drastically divergent ways? And what happens when political cleavages become seemingly ubiquitous in social life?
Currently, I'm especially interested in the relationship between culture -- understood as heterogenously-distributed shared semantic structures -- and polarization. To that end, I'm currently working on projects which clarify the role of stereotype schemas in affective polarization and which introduce sociologists to an "inductive" approach for estimating cultural schemas.
