Research Interests

• Attitude Change/Persuasion
• Decision Making/Choice
• Internet and Online Platforms
• Media
• Political Science
• Communication
• Race/Racism
• Statistical Modeling
• Stereotyping and Prejudice
• Survey Experiments

I am interested in how the public (especially the American public) forms attitudes toward foreign policy issues. I am especially interested in attitudes toward military security issues including casualties in war, attitudes toward terrorism, and more recently emergent security threats including grey-zone tactics, election interference, etc. I am currently engaged in a project on the impact of epistemic uncertainty on a variety of emerging security threats. The project examines the extent to which misinformation and uncertainty limit the public's ability to act as a check on foreign policy behavior. Methodologically, my research relies primarily on survey experiments as well as some reliance on observational survey data.

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