I am broadly interested in how people's self-resources (e.g., feelings of self worth, self esteem, social support, opportunities to disclose) affect their physical perception, social judgments, and interpersonal behavior. I apply this general interest to interracial feedback, the perception of disturbing events, forgiveness, and the use of mood as information. Results show that people with more social support see hills as less steep and hear baby cries as conveying less distress; people with greater self-worth trust their own emotions more, and judge distances to threatening objects more accurately; and people who disclose their own hostile emotions are more forgiving towards their offenders. Interracial feedback is similarly affected by resources; whites whose egalitarian self-images are secure provide more accurate feedback to minorities while those whose self-images are compromised provide minorities with more positively biased feedback.

Another line of research concerns the "Emotional Broadcaster Theory", which proposes that the internal compulsion to disclose troubling emotions transforms people into news broadcasters who, through their disclosures, inform others of important events.