I am a first-year PhD student in Psychology at the Hebrew University, supervised by Prof. Mark Brandt and Prof. Eran Halperin. My research interests center around understanding the psychological antecedents of anti-democratic attitudes and of support for political candidates who erode democratic norms and institutions. I am also broadly interested in how people organize their attitudes and beliefs to serve underlying psychological needs, particularly when these processes carry negative downstream consequences for liberal democracy. A related strand of my work concerns epistemic processes, including the mechanisms through which people come to accept misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Before beginning my PhD, I completed a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Hebrew University, followed by an MA in Psychology.
In my free time I like to play tennis and hike (but that’s pretty much the extent of my outdoorsiness!)