He is the 2017 president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. He also spent five years living in Wellington, New Zealand as a child. His areas of research interest include political psychology, psychology of religion, moral psychology, cultural psychology and social psychology. Much of his work focuses on the two-dimensional or multi-dimensional nature of divides often presented as one-dimensional, particularly political divides, which are typically presented as liberal-left vs. conservative-right. His work also addresses how the correlated inclinations of religiosity and conservatism make opposing predictions of a wide variety of significant religious, political and moral attitudes.