📍 Psychologist | 🧠 Curiosity Researcher | 💻 R/Shiny Enthusiast | 🎓 Educator
Welcome! I’m an experimental psychologist and college professor who builds tools and designs studies to explore why people do weird things—and how we can make learning about it less painful (even when it’s statistics).
- 🧪 “Anything But Suicide” — a study on language shifts in online censorship around suicide, murder, and rape
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MusicMatchup— a Shiny app using the Spotify API to explore related artists via interactive graphs - 🤖
TAi(Teaching Assistant with AI) — a prototype R-based app to support syllabi parsing, assignment creation, and student Q&A
- Better mobile-first design for Shiny apps
- Advanced
bslib+ theming for interactive dashboards - Natural language processing for behavioral data
- Psychology experiments involving curiosity, emotion, or perception
- Tools to enhance teaching with R, Quarto, or AI
- Projects that bridge psychology and human-centered design
- Making my Shiny apps prettier and more accessible
- Integrating more effective testing pipelines for R packages
- Connecting with researchers working on taboo topics or moral psychology
- Making statistics less scary for psych students
- Building reproducible Quarto slides
- Morbid curiosity, disgust, or fear-based decision-making
- Teaching psychology with humor and empathy