Muji is a second-year graduate student in the Social Psychology area, where he is co-advised by Dr. Margaret Clark and Dr. Maria Gendron. Muji grew up near Cincinnati, Ohio, and he completed his undergraduate training at The Ohio State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a bachelor’s degree in statistics. Prior to joining Yale, Muji worked with Dr. Russ Fazio in Ohio State’s Attitudes and Social Cognition Lab to examine the roles of rejection sensitivity and valence weighting biases on emotion perception. Currently, Muji is interested in incongruent emotion experience and emotion expression, and he is specifically interested in the relationship contexts where these incongruences occur, the motivations for individuals to create these incongruences, and attitudes towards individuals who are known to have this incongruence. Additionally, Muji is interested in exploring the similarities and differences between attitudes and emotions, such as the link between emotion expression and attitude-based behavior and the link between persuasion and emotion regulation. In his spare time, Muji likes to play video games and sports with his friends.
