Ian Burton
As a Research Coordinator at the Behavioral Lab, Ian supports faculty and doctoral students in their research. Ian received his undergraduate degrees with honors in Psychology and History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an undergraduate, Ian worked with Markus Brauer and Benjamin Douglas to study how people evaluate leaders who share polarizing misinformation. Ian is primarily interested in understanding the ways in which people assent, dissent, and react to the views of political leaders. Further, he is interested in researching how participants’ reactions to these leaders inform their own views on different groups of people around the world. Outside of this, Ian is interested in studying the effects of dynamic and static norms on group conformity, how evaluations of others’ perceived behaviors (injunctive norms) can lead to real-world behavior change, and how popular conceptions of “psychology” have changed over time to meet the demands of the time.