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Howdy! I'm a first-year Psychology Ph.D. student in the Applied Moral Psychology Lab at Cornell studying how we can increase moral optimism and optimize our moral behavior. Additionally, I have a longstanding affiliation with the MIT Applied Cooperation Initiative.

Previously, I was a project manager in the Morality Lab working with Dr. Liane Young and in the Social Influence and Social Change Lab with Dr. Gregg R. Sparkman at Boston College. In these roles, my job was to help run behavioral studies validating psychological interventions for the common good (e.g.: supporting public health, increasing charitable donation) in the real world.

Previously, I was a lab manager and research specialist in the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab with Dr. Diana I. Tamir at Princeton University.

I received my B.S. in psychology and minor in philosophy from Duke, where I worked as a research assistant in the Mind at Large Lab and a postgraduate research fellow in the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab and the Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making Lab under the supervision of Dr. Paul Seli, Dr. Felipe De Brigard, and Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, respectively.

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I work almost exclusively in python (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, and huggingface) and r (tidyverse) to clean and analyze behavioral data, while I also frequently rely on javascript (i.e., jquery, react) to run web experiments. I'm currently looking to start using d3.js more actively!

As a social psychological researcher, my day-to-day work involves study and stimulus design, statistical analysis, data visualization, and manuscript preparation. Previously, I have also conducted brain scans using fMRI and preprocessed data via high performance computing.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out over email:
✉ nl453 [at] cornell [dot] edu

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