Overview

Broadly, my research tries to understand when help is unhelpful – how people try to assess and improve the performance of themselves and others, and how 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. You can read more at my website.

Brown Affiliations

• Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences

Research Areas

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