Emily Kubin

I am a post-doctoral research fellow in the department. 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 study the interactions between our moral judgments and media (both news media and social media) on political polarisation 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 polarisation and partisan animosity. I am also beginning to study how AI can both increase and decrease political polarisation 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.