hello, nice to meet you!
i'm verity, and i'm a phd student in the stanford culture and emotion lab.
i find psychology absolutely captivating - isn't it facinating that we can use scientific methods to study human behavior? having learnt about many different psychological experiements, i've become well aware of the fact that our intuitions are not always right. although we're humans, there's so many things we don't actually know about ourselves/ our own kind!
in general, i'm interested in how cultural differences (e.g., in ideal affect, or we ideally want to feel) influence everyday behaviors and other downstream outcomes. for example, how does how we want to feel shape how we respond to everyday negative events, how we choose to support others, how we want to be supported by others, and how we attain better wellbeing?
research stuff
custom R function for AVI (Tsai et al., 2007)
given that we often ipsatize (z-score) the affect valuation index (AVI) before computing composite scores to account for cultural differences in response styles, i wrote a function to automate the ipsatization, computation, and plotting process! instructions on how to use the function are in the github readme document. click here to access the custom AVI functions
curriculum vitae