About Me
Hello! I am a postdoctoral fellow at Geisinger Health System, where I study behavioral science, decision-making, social judgment, and statistical inference. I work together with Christopher Chabris and Michelle Meyer.
I received my PhD in 2017 from Brown University studying the Self, social judgment and decision making, and prosocial behavior. I taught at Brown in Spring, 2017 as a visiting assistant professor through the Deans' Faculty Fellow program.
Below are some of my current projects and the research questions I have been working to answer. For more details, please visit my research page. If you are interested in my teaching portfolio, please visit my teaching page. Or, click here to see what I'm up to.
I received my PhD in 2017 from Brown University studying the Self, social judgment and decision making, and prosocial behavior. I taught at Brown in Spring, 2017 as a visiting assistant professor through the Deans' Faculty Fellow program.
Below are some of my current projects and the research questions I have been working to answer. For more details, please visit my research page. If you are interested in my teaching portfolio, please visit my teaching page. Or, click here to see what I'm up to.
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Self-Enhancement and OverconfidenceMost people perceive themselves more favorably than they perceive others. How do we distinguish between those who accurately see themselves as better than others, and those who do so in error? What are some of the reputational consequences of making erroneous vs. accurate self-superiority claims (in other words, bragging)? Who claims self-superiority, and does this differ when this claim is subjective ("I am smarter than the average American") or objective ("I am a better chess player than most others")?
Social Decision-Making under UncertaintyHow do social agents perceive the decisions and behaviors made by others in uncertain or risky environments? When judging others, do we pay more attention to a decision-maker's intentions, or the outcome of the event? How do these social consequences differ between rational and moral domains? Understanding reputation in social decision-making provides opportunities to improve the efficiency and consistency of human behavior.
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The Volunteer's DilemmaHow do individuals reason when choosing whether to pay a small cost to themselves to benefit those around them? In contrast with the more familiar Prisoner’s Dilemma, the Volunteer's Dilemma requires players to coordinate to obtain the best possible outcome. How do social perceivers think about this decision to volunteer or abstain, and is this decision a moral one? If our goal is to increase prosociality and volunteering behavior, our research suggests that appeals to own payoffs are more effective than appeals to group benefits.
Deliberate IgnoranceIn collaboration with Geisinger Health System, I am developing a new line of research concerned with when and why people choose to ignore useful but aversive information. For example, who chooses to learn whether they are likely to develop breast cancer (a genetic predisposition that can be treated when detected early), or Alzheimer’s disease (a predisposition that cannot be treated)? Furthermore, how do we socially evaluate people who decide to ignore or attend to important information about their genes?
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