Paul E. Plonski is a Research Fellow and Part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College. His research asks how people emotionally respond to problems too large to see or touch — like climate change — and whether the ways we manage those emotions ultimately help or hurt. He draws on affective science, cognitive science, and psychophysiology to study emotion regulation at the boundary between individual experience and shared human problems. He also teaches research methods and statistics, with a focus on developing students as critical, independent thinkers.
