His research focus is on the role of beliefs in policy decision making in Homeland Security and International Relations. Michael is an expert in the field of automated text analysis, recognized for his development of Profiler Plus, a general purpose platform for automated text coding with a broad range of applications including psychological assessment, media analysis, social network analysis and political analysis, and of WorldView, a program for building and analyzing graphical representations of belief systems in the cognitive mapping tradition. Through ProfilerPlus.org he provides text analysis services to the global academic community.