William is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. He is also core faculty in Northwestern's Technology and Social Behavior Program, and an affiliate of the Institute for Policy Research and Dispute Resolution Research Center. He studies how human psychology interacts with technologically-mediated social contexts to shape our intergroup interactions.

Felix is interested in the motivational account of emotion regulation, particularly about why and how people influence their own and other's emotions. In the lab, he is working on a project testing author motives and observer perceptions of moral outrage online (e.g., Reddit) and the social consequences of these interactions.

Nick is a first year PhD student in Technology and Social Behavior (CS + Comm). He studies online behavior at scale to inform social theory, and applies social theory to build a better digital commons. He uses network science and natural language processing methods to address questions across AI-mediated communication and the dynamics of scientific collaboration and production. Before graduate school, he earned a BSc in Neuroscience from the University of Chicago, conducted HCI research as a Fulbright Scholar at LMU Munich, and worked as a data analyst. 

Bolun is a first-year PhD student in Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His research focuses on human-centered AI, large language models, and computational social science, with particular interest in analyzing social media, modeling policy communication, and using AI support human thinking while mitigating polarization and rigidity. He holds dual master’s degrees in Information Systems and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree in Informatics from the University of California, Irvine. 

Mark is a predoctoral researcher interested in the ways that technology and AI interact with human psychology in online settings. In the lab, he is engineering algorithms and AI-agents to foster prosocial interactions. He graduated from Yale with a degree in statistics, is currently pursuing his Master's in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and also has startup experience in industry as a data scientist and software engineer. 

Meriel is a predoctoral research fellow at Kellogg. She is interested in moral cognition, AI, and the psychology of collectives. Currently, she is working on a project that examines how human attentional biases and social media feed-ranking algorithms interact to create inaccurate social perceptions. Meriel is co-advised by Tessa Charlesworth. 

Ruining is a master's student in Computational Social Science, with a concentration in Sociology, at the University of Chicago. Their research broadly focuses on how informational and cultural technologies—such as social media and large language models (LLMs)—influence society, particularly in terms of social norms, language, culture, and mental health. In the lab, they are exploring the use of LLMs to generate politically opposing yet tonally similar social media posts, with the goal of fostering "disagree-but-discussable" online discourse. Prior to joining UChicago, they earned a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Zhejiang University in China. 

Jennie is a fourth-year PhD student in Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. Her research investigates how both organizations and individuals unintentionally (re)produce and maintain inequality and seeks ways to improve educational, professional, and life outcomes for marginalized communities. In the lab, she is studying the conditions under which moral outrage mobilizes collective action for ingroup members and allies of different group identities. Jennie is co-advised with Tessa Charlesworth.

Jonathan is a second-year graduate student in the Social Psychology Ph.D. program at Northwestern University under the co-mentorship of Dr. Sylvia Perry and Dr. Wendi Gardner. He received his BA from Knox College in psychology and minored in composition & rhetoric. He is interested in studying how identity influences the formation and reduction of intergroup biases. Specifically, he is interested in examining the relationship between morality, identity, the emotional self, and intergroup biases. This involves studying people’s discomfort and defensiveness when confronted about their racial biases or systemic inequality. Additionally, he is pursuing an ad-hoc master's in statistics with a focus on data science, as he is interested in utilizing computational methodology to help advance the field of psychology. He is leading a project in collaboration with the lab that examines emotional responses to online police brutality videos.

Trevor is a PhD candidate in the Management & Organizations department at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. His research explores ideological conflict and group dynamics, with a focus on intra-group dynamics that contribute to political polarization and pluralistic ignorance. In the lab, Trevor is exploring how social and psychological factors influence ingroup dissent, and, in turn, (mis)perceptions of the attitudes within groups.