Research

Research:

My scholarly interests focus on the development of social cognition and antisocial behavior and how empirical research in this area may be used to inform a proper theory of criminal culpability and law. Specifically, I am interested in social cognitive biases, deficits, distortions, and related individual differences that may explain alternative courses of social/antisocial behavior, and what these differences may mean for understanding mentes reae (or levels of guilty mind) of specific criminal acts. My empirical research has thus far concentrated on children's and adolescents' response decision making in ambiguous provocation situations. I am increasingly more interested in links between social information processing and antisocial behavior in late adolescence and adulthood, and how the psychology and law of this developmental period may be better understood via a violent subtypes lens.

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