Hi, I’m Ivy!
I’m a Ph.D. candidate in social psychology and a graduate minor in cognitive science at Cornell University, where I work in the Applied Moral Psychology Lab under Dr. Laura Niemi. I hold an M.A. in linguistics from Florida Atlantic University.
Using frameworks and tools from moral psychology and cognitive linguistics, I study consumers’ perceptions of and moral attitudes toward industrialized products, processes, and practices, especially in the context of animal agriculture and animal products. Some additional research interests include:
moralization and moral belief updating
consumer ethics and behavior
organizational mind perception and moral agency
anthropomorphism in marketing and industry
interventions to enhance moral concern for farmed animals
corpus-assisted discourse analysis
ecolinguistic strategies that promote species inclusivity and effective framing of animal rights issues