I am PI of the Social Cognition Across People and Environments (SCAPE) Lab at RIT. I am an experimental Social Psychologist who broadly speaking, studies motivated social cognition. I examine how aspects of our environments (e.g., social, physical, structural, or built factors) impact people’s perceptions, attitudes, and decision-making. I am especially interested in the ways that people attend to, interpret, and react to threats to health and safety. I also examine the intersections between people’s individual differences and environment that produce shifts in social cognition. For example, I have been involved in projects that investigate relationships between bodily immune function (e.g., inflammation) and behavioral immune function (e.g., disgust).  In another line, I examine individual differences (e.g., in worldview) that shape people’s political decisions about how we should mitigate disaster risk and approach climate change.