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Portrait of Meriel Burnett

PhD Student, Social Psychology

Meriel Burnett

Studies how ecological factors shape personality, beliefs, and values over historical time.

Meriel Burnett is a second-year PhD student in social psychology whose research investigates how ecological factors shape human psychology (e.g., personality, beliefs, values) over historical time. She specializes in large-scale text datasets, machine learning, and network analysis. Meriel received her bachelor's from Swinburne University of Technology and her master's from UNC Greensboro.

Research interests

  • Historical psychology
  • Personality
  • Text analysis & machine learning