Inside the Mind
Three essays from Introduction to Psychology at USC, on moral development, dreaming, and personality.
Moral Development and Behavior
2025
How fairness, empathy, and honesty change between childhood and adolescence.
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2025
What research on REM sleep, memory, emotion, and lucid dreaming suggests about how conscious experience is built.
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2025
The Big Five personality traits, and how they stay recognizable while changing with experience, partly through my own story.
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