As a cultural psychologist, I am interested in how our psychological processes develop within, draw upon, and influence the historically established systems of meaning and activity through which we live our everyday lives. In plain English, that means that the research I do tends to focus on how people make sense of themselves and their situations and how those meanings shape our ways of feeling, thinking, and acting. This is a very general approach, which has allowed me to help students investigate their own original research questions in innovative ways. My students and I have presented and published research on a wide range of topics, including:
