William is an Associate 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 motivational accounts 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 second-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 second-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. 

Mengmeng is a first-year PhD student in Management and Organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Her research examines the psychological consequences of technology-mediated interaction, particularly in relation to beliefs, social norms, and group dynamics. Methodologically, she is interested in large-scale data analysis, social network analysis, and natural language processing. She holds a master’s degree in Computational Social Science with a concentration in psychology from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in Communication from Fudan University. 

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, a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and also has startup experience in industry as a data scientist and software engineer. 

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.