current position:
postdoctoral fellow
data science initiative
harvard university
i have shared my queer experiences as an illegalized immigrant: cnn, my undocumented life, daily princetonian, princeton alumni weekly, princeton summer journal
my research explores:
how data-driven methods help us measure collective and idiosyncratic understandings of contemporary topics in race, sexuality, and migration discourse
how analytic methods and philosophical commitments (e.g., social epistemologies and ontologies) shape knowledge-building in psychology
representation of social others
this project combines insights from computational methods and memory & evaluation processes to study individual and collective representations of others. specific focus on the flexible or rigid representation of categories (e.g., across time, learning, context, institutions, political projects, groupings), their origins, and how these representations may reflect and justify social oppression or motivate social change.
publications
martinez, j.e., todorov, a. (2021). mapping varied mental representations: the case of representing illegalized immigrants. psyarxiv.
martinez, j.e., oh, d., todorov, a. (2021). mental representations of immigrants encode racialized expectations of sociostructural positions. psyarxiv. 📝
martinez, j.e., oh, d., todorov, a. (2021). immigrant face-ism: documentation statuses evoke racialized mental representations. psyarxiv. 📝
verosky, s., tyack., l., martinez, j.e. (2021). the group extremity effect: group ratings of negatively and positively evaluated groups of faces are more extreme than average ratings of their members. journal of experimental social psychology.
martinez, j.e., feldman, l.a., feldman, m.j., cikara, m. (2021). narratives shape cognitive representations of immigrants and policy preferences. psychological science. 📝 📄
verosky, s.c., porter, j., martinez, j.e., todorov, a. (2018). robust effects of affective person learning on evaluation of faces.journal of personality and social psychology, 114(4), 516-528. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000109 📊
martinez, j.e. (2017). social-cognitive representational spaces: ontology and consequences. master thesis.
martinez j.e., mack m.l., gelman b.d., preston a.r. (2016). knowledge of social affiliations biases economic decisions. plos one, 11(7): e0159918. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159918 📊
media coverage
(2020). stories of immigrant achievement could combat xenophobia. princeton insights.
martinez, j.e., feldman, l.a., cikara, m. (2017). showcasing immigrant excellence. scientific american.
(2017). a harvard psychologist started #immigrantexcellence to combat myth that immigrants and refugees are dangerous. vox.
works in progress
Mental representations of immigrants across documentation statuses and narratives
Social structure learning and stereotype updating
(inter)subjectivity & theory-making
important to this project is the development of methods to better quantify disagreements or shared understandings of controversial issues across contexts and steer them in anti-oppressive directions & to understand how these methods, in turn, should inform psychological theorizing.
publications
martinez, j.e., (2022). facecraft: reification of race in psychological research with faces. psyarxiv
cikara, m., martinez, j.e., lewis, n. jr. (2022). Moving beyond social categories by incorporating context more deeply in social psychological theory. nature reviews psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44159-022-00079-3
martinez, j.e., paluck, e.l. (2020). quantifying shared and idiosyncratic judgments of racism in social discourse. psyarxiv 📝
martinez, j.e., funk, f, todorov, a. (2020). quantifying idiosyncratic and shared contributions to judgment. behavior research methods. 52, 1428–1444. doi: 10.3758/s13428-019-01323-0 📄 📊
gantman, a., gomila, r., martinez, j.e., matias, j.n., paluck, e.l., starck, j., wu, s., yaffe, n. (2018). a pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication. behavioral and brain sciences. 41, e127. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18000626
works in progress
martinez, j.e., uddenberg, s., gandhi, l., labbree, b., todorov, a., kahneman, d. (in prep). stable judge x case interactions contribute greatly to sentencing disparities
martinez, j.e., labbree, b., uddenberg, s., todorov, a. (in prep). meaningful “noise”: comparative judgments contain stable idiosyncratic contributions
queer sexual health
this project focuses on identifying social barriers or facilitators to PrEP uptake (a daily pre-exposure prophylaxis pill for hiv prevention). specific focus on mapping stereotypes of men who take PrEP and how different socio-medical understandings of PrEP might promote or prevent collective regulation of sexual health .
publications
van dijk, m., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2021). bridging the sero-divide: attitudes of PrEP users towards sex partners living with hiv. aids care. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1954588 📄
van dijk, m., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2021). quality of sex life and perceived sexual pleasure of informal PrEP users in the netherlands. journal of sex research. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2021.1931653 📄
van dijk, m., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2021). slow uptake of PrEP: behavioral predictors and the influence of price on PrEP uptake among msm with a high interest in PrEP. aids & behavior. 📄
van dijk, m., kamps, r., de wit, j.b.f., guadamuz, t., martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2020). socio-sexual experiences of early PrEP adopters outside formal healthcare in the netherlands. aids & behavior.
martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2020). social judgments of sexual behavior and use of hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis. social cognition, 38(1), 1-20. doi: 10.1521/soco.2020.38.1.01 📄 📊
martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (2019). pre-exposure prophylaxis sorting among men who have sex with men. aids care, 31(3), 388-396. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2018.1533229. 📊
media coverage
works in progress
martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (in prep). harnessing social psychological insights for the advancement of hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis
martinez, j.e., jonas, k.j. (in prep). framing hiv pre-exposure prophylaxis as a private or public matter: correlates and prospects
other areas of interest
through my prior experience as a lab manager, i was able to study visual and executive cognition across development.
publications
roe, m.a., martinez, j.e., mumford, j.a., taylor w.p., cirino, p.t., fletcher, j.m., juranek, j.j., church, j.a. (2018). control engagement during sentence and inhibition fMRI tasks in children with reading difficulties. cerebral cortex. bhy170. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhy170
martinez, j.e., mack, m.l., bauer, j-r., roe, m.a., church, j.a. (2018). perceptual biases during cued task switching relate to decision process differences between children and adults. journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance. 44(10), 1603-1618. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000552. 📄 📊
bauer, j-r.*, martinez, j.e.*, roe, m.a., church, j.a. (2017). consistent performance differences despite manipulation of cue switching variables in children and adults. frontiers in psychology. 8:1304. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01304 📊