Across various projects with my collaborators in the Impression Formation Social Neuroscience Lab, I have been actively studying how we perceive social status in others and how perceived status ultimately shapes the evaluations and decisions we make about others.
As a volunteer quantitative researcher at Roll the Same, I contribute my writing and quantiative skills to the study of equity and inclusion in the martial arts community, with a focus on Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Inferring the relative rank (i.e., status) of others is essential to navigating social hierarchies. A survey of the expanding social psychological and neuroscience literatures on status reveals a diversity of focuses (e.g., perceiver vs. agent), …