I’m a graduate student in social psychology at the University of Southern California. One of my focuses is to help research from social psychology reach non-academic audiences and this blog is part of that.

The main focuses of my research (and hence this blog) are:

Positive Psychology - What makes people happy? And what exactly is “happiness”? How can research in this area benefit society?
Moral Psychology - What is the relationship between morality and happiness? What moral ideas lead us to do great and terrible things?
Political Psychology - What kinds of moral ideas lead people to be liberal or conservative? How can liberals and conservatives work together on issues I care about (health care, drug policy, foreign policy & immigration…among others)?

I probably won’t be able to resist the urge to write the occasional off-topic observation about whatever comes to mind though…