About

I am a M.A. student in Psychological Science at California State University, San Bernardino, and an intern with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. I am interested how people respond in the wake of moral transgressions, both their own and others'.

Much of my work to date has examined moral injury, a trauma-related syndrome that can develop following a severe transgression of one's moral values. With Dr. Christina Hassija, I have studied moral injury among both survivors and aggressors of interpersonal violence. Additionally, with Dr. Richard Cowden at the Human Flourishing Program, I have worked on longitudinal studies of forgiveness, moral injury, and flourishing, as well as an international psychometric study validating new measures of moral injury and transformative suffering.

Conducting these varied projects has led me to a broader question: namely, what determines how we respond when someone commits a moral transgression? With Dr. Cari Goetz, I am studying how the inferences we make about others' values impact our emotional responses to perceived transgressions.

Ultimately, I hope to become a professor of social psychology. I am applying to Ph.D. programs for Fall 2027 (and yes, I am nervous!).

The painting is The Birth of Aphrodite (1887) by Ivan Aivazovsky. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.