Projects where cognition, data, and judgment meet.
A focused view of public projects: what question each one asks, what evidence or design supports it, what method makes the material interpretable, and what the source can verify.
Each case study points back to a public paper, working paper, or source page, with the role and limits kept close to the evidence. The complete scholarly record stays on the publications page.
Project case studies
Public work with clear sources.
Research projects link to articles, working papers, or public pages. Each card keeps the question, role, method, contribution, and status easy to scan.
Unsupervised Machine Learning for Social Cognition
Using unsupervised machine learning to reveal hidden patterns in human beliefs and attitudes.
My role
Lead author.
What it contributes
A tutorial and applied methods paper showing how K-means, DBSCAN, PCA, and market basket analysis can help social cognition researchers discover structure in large-scale data.
Why Reform Stalls
Modeling public justification, outrage, and reform discourse around police violence.
My role
Conceived and led the project; conceptualization, methodology, data curation, formal analysis, validation, investigation, visualization, and writing.
What it contributes
A public IPR working paper using large-scale YouTube comment analysis and an experiment to study how justification and outrage relate to reform discourse.
Historical Blame and Collective Responsibility
Understanding why people hold present-day groups responsible for past harms.
My role
Coauthor.
What it contributes
Research on psychological antecedents of historical blame, including perceived connectedness between past and present groups, current benefit or harm, and unresolved obligations.
Energy Company / Landowner Negotiation Data
Studying negotiation dynamics and equity in hydraulic fracturing land acquisition.
My role
Contributor; public supplement lists data collection and coding-scheme development among contributions for Jonathan and several coauthors.
What it contributes
An interdisciplinary Nature Energy project analyzing how energy companies negotiate with landowners and how institutional contexts shape bargaining power.