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. You can learn more about my lab by clicking here.

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 for prospective graduate students, postdocs, or RAs, please click here to learn more about getting involved with our research. 

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.