My research focuses on the causes and consequences of violence, moral judgment and decision-making, and how social and behavioral boundaries are constituted and change. These interests are reflected in my current book project as well as my published papers and ongoing research.

First, I study wartime defection: how individuals shift from supporting state violence to resisting it and saving lives within the same violent context. Second, I examine how social boundaries shape and are transformed by extreme violence: how racial, ethnic, and religious cleavages feed genocide, and how genocide feeds back into those cleavages. Third, I analyze cultural cognition and moral decision-making at the micro-level—particularly how dehumanization works and how timing and experience shape cognitive and emotional responses to violence.

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