I am a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. I am also a research affiliate at the Center for Conflict and Cooperation at New York University and the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making at Pennsylvania State University. I explore how our moral judgments and the media we encounter interact to drive political polarization and conflict.

As a political psychologist, I have training in social psychology but regularly conduct interdisciplinary research with communication scholars, computer scientists, political scientists, and anthropologists. Using primarily experimental/quantitative methods, I examine how understandings of morality (especially connected to victimhood) and what we see on social media and in news media often feed off one another to amplify affective polarization and partisan animosity. I am also beginning to study how AI can both increase and decrease political polarization and conflict. I leverage these findings to inform how we develop effective (media and/or AI) interventions to build understanding and bridge divides and regularly work with practitioners to connect this research to practice. 

Email: emily.kubin@psy.ox.ac.uk