Current Projects 

• Self-Communication: This line of research explores how communication with ourselves is similar to/distinct from communication with others, how self-communication differs among individuals, and how self-communication relates to various other phenomena including emotion, personality, culture, interorception, and religion. Key collaborators: Constance Bainbridge (UCLA), Jack Terwilliger (UCSD), Rick Dale (UCLA), & Rachel E. Gross (New York Times). 

• Neurodiversity: This line of research explores the construct of neurodiversity- its metaphysical and epistemological bases as both a set of diagnoses and a set of identities; policy and other educational implications; and how basic and applied neurodiversity research can be informed by work on other constructs such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and other disabilities. Key collaborators: Anne-Laure Le Cunff (King's College London) & Vish Varma (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior), Research assistant: Bat Hoter-Ishay (Columbia). 

• Epistemological Issues in the Teaching of Psychology:  This line of research probes ways that psychology is currently taught similarly/differently to other fields in the hard sciences and social sciences and what changes, if any, should be made to how it is taught. Part of this project involves investigating students' and psychologists' beliefs about the nature of evidence, experience, validity, and replicability. Research assistant: Bat Hoter-Ishay (Columbia). 

• Cognitive Science in Fiction: Co-editing an interdisciplinary collection of essays about Apple TV's Severance. My co-editor is Jennifer Dawes (English Department, Midwestern State University). Currently in press, and available this spring!

• Generalizing the Wheel of Consent: This writing project aims to generalize Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent.