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.

Curtis studies how social environments in the digital era are shaping human morality and political conflict. His current projects investigate how social media affects moral cultural change and how to design social media algorithms to create more representative and democratic political conversations. Curtis is co-advised with Nour Kteily.

Victoria's research interests are political polarization (primarily affective and false polarization), the societal factors that contribute to intergroup misperceptions, and the factors that influence ingroup dissent. Her work in the lab focuses on the development of interventions aimed at encouraging constructive cross-party discourse. Victoria is one of Kellogg's DRRC Postdoctoral fellows.

Jennie is a third-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.

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.

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. 

Abdo is a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral fellow who is interested in why people come to experience the world in such diverse ways (e.g., through different political beliefs and religious convictions) and how people come to question and change their worldviews. In the lab, Abdo is currently collaborating on a social media intervention study aimed at exploring how algorithms impact people's political beliefs. 

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.