I am a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies (IPP) at the institutes of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Before, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Mannheim School of Social Sciences and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn.

My general research interests focus on conditions under which social norms change and emerge, particularly the effects of social feedback and contextual information on perception and conformity to social norms. Most of my work has been concerned with social norms stigmatizing the overt expression of prejudice, such as racism, xenophobia, or sexism. Social norms against the public expression of views considered politically incorrect developed over the last decades and constitute a powerful deterrent to the expression of prejudice in modern societies. However, these norms have been under threat in recent years with the rise of hate speech online and the proliferation of populist parties and leaders seeking to mobilize hostility towards minorities. In my current research, I investigate the role of social norms as a bulwark against hate speech online, how anti-prejudice norms are affected by sudden events, or how populist political rhetoric can undermine these norms. Recently, I have been working on a new line of research that investigates the normative roots of political preferences and behavior.

In my research, I make use of a wide range of experimental and quasi-experimental methods, including original lab-in-the-field online experiments, but also survey and lab experiments.