APA 2023 Washington D.C. Presentation
A recording of my presentation at APA 2023 in Washington, D.C., delivered alongside Brent Dean Robbins, former chair of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, and Autumn Vick.
Research
Psychopathology
Autism Paper
A psychopathology paper arguing that Autism is not a deficit but a distinct way of being examining its history, cultural messaging, and Theory of Mind through a humanistic lens that centers Autistic voices.
Humanistic Psychology
Anasthetic Culture
A phenomenological analysis of how death anxiety drives the objectification of women: connecting Cartesian dualism, medical education, and rape culture through Brent Dean Robbins' existential framework.
Research Practicum
Metabletic Analysis
A metabletic analysis tracing how the rise of naturalism in 1884 transformed White supremacy from a class-based hierarchy into a biologically justified ideology: connecting Galton's eugenics, Nietzsche, Mark Twain, and the Dawes Act.
Research Practicum 2
Speed Dating Study
An original mixed-methods speed dating study using Big Five Personality Theory to test whether what people say they want in a partner actually matches what the data suggests attracts them: finding that emotional stability, assortive narcissism, and contextual kindness are the real cornerstones of attraction.
Humanistic Psychology
R.D. Laing Paper
A thesis-antithesis-synthesis portrait of R.D. Laing: examining how his concept of ontological security runs consistently through The Divided Self, a late-career interview, and his application of Tillich's theology of anxiety.
Emotion, Motivation and Cognition
Repentance Moral Emotion
A phenomenological framework for repentance and forgiveness: using South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a case study to map the full continuum from apology through empathy to identity transformation.
Emotion, Motivation and Cognition
Dual Process Theory
A critique of Kahneman's Dual-Process Theory using veganism as a real-world test case: arguing that emotion and rationality are inseparable, and that any theory which cleanly divides them is built on a flawed foundation.
Clean Water Action
My reflection on serving with Clean Water Action, produced for Duquesne's Engaged Scholarship Program."