My research interests involve stereotyping and discrimination. More specifically I’m interested in religious discrimination – meaning discrimination against people who have a specific religious affiliation. I am also interested in  factors that may increase or decrease discriminatory behavior such as individuating information, prejudice, and personality correlates (such as right-wing authoritarianism, liberalism, conservatism, social dominance orientation, etc.). For example, my Master’s thesis examined ethnic and religious discrimination by measuring discriminatory behavior against Arabs and Muslims. I am launching a series of studies that examine modern anti-Semitism and another set that investigates discrimination against women who wear the hijab. Additionally, I am conducting experiments that seek to validate the Moral Foundations Theory and examine the accumulation of self-fulfilling prophecies across perceivers.