Research Areas
Perceptions, Identity, and Polarization
I primarily investigate how news media shapes the U.S. public’s perceptions of political polarization and how those perceptions in turn shape political cognition and behavior. Much of my focus in this area is on partisan social identity and how it conditions responses to polarized environments.
Paths to Political Learning
I also explore how people engage with the contemporary political information environment and the consequences of these choices for political knowledge and attitudes. I am particularly interested in non-traditional paths to learning about politics, including learning via social media.
Information Exposure, Selection and Processing
Much of my work is by concerns about how people encounter, attend to, and process information. I consider this in several ways, exploring both broad factors shaping information exposure and psychophysiological indicators of implicit cognitive and affective processes.