The median wealth of white families is increasing over time, while the median wealth of black families is decreasing. Yet, we find that many white Americans feel subjectively low status. In this talk, I will explore the psychological processes contributing to these effects through the lens of...

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Psychiatric diagnostic covariation suggests that the underlying structure of psychopathology is not one of circumscribed disorders. Quantitative modeling of individual differences in diagnostic patterns has uncovered several broad transdiagnostic domains of mental disorder liability, which are...

People learn more from their experiences than just how to behave in different situations. They also learn to organize experiences into internal representations that facilitate flexible behavior, in domains ranging from simple decision-making to goal-directed action in naturalistic, richly...

When we look around, we see tables, chairs, and books rather than a “blooming, buzzing confusion.” How do we build visual concepts that allow us to derive meaning from what we see? In this talk, I will present three lines of research that make progress on this question by leveraging...

Using Social Dominance and evolutionary theory as theoretical frameworks, we argue for a model entitled the Theory of Gendered Prejudice (TGP), which in broad terms, suggests that arbitrary-set discrimination must be understood as an inherently gendered phenomenon. Employing multiple...

All human societies have languages capable of expressing the richness of human thought. To what extent is this achievement an historical accomplishment, similar to mathematics or science, and to what extent does it rely on our evolved cognitive capacities? I study these questions by looking at...

Concepts, programs, numbers, theories, and categories are just some of the cognitive technologies people acquire through social learning and pass on to new generations. Understanding how interpersonal processes of social interaction and cultural transmission contribute to human cognition was a...

The pain of Black Americans is pervasively and persistently underdiagnosed and undertreated. In addition to other individual- and structural-level factors, research from my lab demonstrates that low-level perceptual disruptions may also contribute, in part, to disparities in pain care. This bias...

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From the perspective of cognitive science, typing is fascinating in that it sits right at the intersection of language production, motor control, and visual processing systems. So far, the majority of studies on typing have focused on the motor control...