I'm a master's graduate interested in emotion regulation.

World View:

Every day, we combine our perception with our life experience and billions of years of biochemical evolution to fulfill our physiological and psychological needs. Some of the factors that influence whether we fulfill our needs lay beyond our volitional sphere of control, but the ways in which we appraise the situation and manage our behavior has the power to imbue our experience and influence our outcomes. In life (and in my research), I strive to understand how people influence their perception and control semi-automatic behaviors to conduct more deliberate lives.

Research Projects:

My first research project explored whether self-control was a limited resource, or prior failures to replicate self-control fatigue (i.e., ego-depletion) were owed to the manipulations not being demanding enough. I found that ego-depletion was an affective phenomenon that did not impact people's ability to exercise self-control. Subsequently, I have investigated regulatory mechanisms that do not rely on the emotions that we are trying to regulate, such as situation selection and interpersonal emotion regulation.