About

I am an Assistant Professor at Brown University, based in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences and affiliated with the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship.

Broadly, my research investigates how people try to assess and improve the performance of themselves and others, and why those efforts often go astray. I use behavioral laboratory experiments, field studies, and formal computational models to study this topic through several interconnected research questions, including why people often take over tasks when they shouldn’t, why top performers don’t always give better advice, and why performance evaluations can get less accurate as poor performance becomes rare.

For information about applying to our PhD program at Brown, please see this website. If you are interested in other roles in my lab (postdoc, lab manager, RA, etc), please contact me directly.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Harvard Psychology Department (where I received my PhD) and at Harvard Business School, working primarily with Daniel Gilbert, Michael Norton, and Ting Zhang.