Natasha Nowicka recently joined our team as a research assistant, supporting our current projects in political psychology with a focus on political polarization, gender, and climate attitudes. Natasha holds a BSc in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego, and an MSc in Psychology from Lund University. She has a strong interest in statistics and its application to the behavioral sciences. Her master's thesis employed a meta-analytic approach to examine the relationship between language proximity and the bilingual advantage. Natasha also has prior experience working as a research assistant on language and developmental projects, fMRI studies related to social anxiety, and research focused on community-based outreach for at-risk populations.