I am a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Media, Technology, and Society program at Northwestern, working with Dr. Nathan Walter and the Center for Media Psychology and Social Influence (COM-PSI). My major areas of study include misinformation correction, media psychology, and media effects in a health/strategic communication context. My research seeks to explore the sensemaking strategies we use to understand information and the processes that can bias our interpretations. In other words, why do people accept some types of information but not others, how does this information influence perceptions, and what are the stories used to make sense of it all?

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