Jacob is a fourth-year Ph.D. student and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Cooperation Lab at Boston College. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland with degrees in psychology, philosophy, and a minor in statistics. Jacob's research broadly explores how children and adults think about and engage in intergroup conflict resolution. Collaborating with researchers across four continents, his current work investigates intergroup conflict resolution strategies, developing conceptions of multigenerational intergroup conflict resolution, and how parent sociopolitical attitudes and parenting beliefs shape children’s conflict resolution expectations. Through this work, Jacob aims to identify the processes that foster constructive intergroup relations and to generate knowledge that informs real-world conflict resolution.
